# Ivanhoe cuts 2025 Kamoa-Kakula guidance by 28% and withdraws 2026 target after seismic event floods Kakula

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Date: 11 Jun 2025
About: [Ivanhoe Mines](https://technooptimist.io/companies/ivanhoe-mines.md) · [Kamoa-Kakula copper complex](https://technooptimist.io/materials/kamoa-kakula.md)
Original source: https://www.ecofinagency.com/news/1206-47243-drc-s-kamoa-kakula-copper-production-to-drop-amid-seismic-setback

After a seismic event in May 2025 suspended mining at Kakula, Ivanhoe cut its 2025 forecast to 370,000-420,000 tonnes of copper from 520,000-580,000 tonnes and withdrew its 2026 target of about 600,000 tonnes. Mining had resumed on the western side; the eastern side, which flooded, needed dewatering. Concentrators 1 and 2 were running at about half capacity on stockpiles.

## Key facts

- 2025 guidance: 370,000-420,000 t, down from 520,000-580,000 t.
- 2024 production was 437,061 t.
- Phase 3 concentrator and the Kamoa mine kept operating normally.

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