Apr 01, 2009· SANTIAGO, CHILE Robert M. Friedland, Chairman of Ivanhoe Nickel Platinum (Ivanplats) and Ivanhoe Capital Corporation, announced today in an opening keynote address at the 8th World Copper Conference that Ivanplats has made a major copper discovery of historic importance at its owned Kamoa Project, west of Kolwezi, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga province.