Robert Friedland

For more than 30 years, Robert M. Friedland has been recognised by the mining industry as a leading entrepreneurial explorer, company builder, technology innovator, and thought leader. He is most notably known for the discovery of several of the world’s largest mineral deposits, such as the Voisey’s Bay nickel-copper-cobalt discovery in Canada, the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold discovery in Mongolia, the Platreef platinum-palladium-nickel- rhodium-gold-copper discovery in South Africa and the Kamoa-Kakula copper discovery in the DRC. Under his leadership, the Ivanhoe group and associated companies have raised more than US$25 billion on world capital markets since 1993. This capital has been invested in more than 30 nations, directed primarily at the discovery of mineral resources, as well as disruptive technologies. Mr. Friedland is Executive Co-Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines, which operates three tier one mining operations; the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Complex, which is one of the world’s highest-grad