# Ivanhoe sets 2026-27 Kamoa-Kakula guidance as dewatering advances and the smelter starts up

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Date: 3 Dec 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.ivanhoemines.com/news-stories/news-release/ivanhoe-mines-announces-kamoa-kakula-copper-production-guidance-for-2026-and-2027-as-recovery-plan-advances

Ivanhoe guided 380,000-420,000 tonnes of copper for 2026 and 500,000-540,000 tonnes for 2027, keeping a medium-term target of about 550,000 tonnes a year. Dewatering of the flooded Kakula mine was about 70% complete on the western side and 60% on the eastern side. Start-up of the on-site smelter had been announced on 1 December.

## Key facts

- First nine months of 2025: 316,395 t of copper in concentrate.
- Concentrator capacity to reach 17 Mt/yr from 2027.
- 13.4 km of underground workings rehabilitated, 4.6 km of them dewatered.

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