{"id":546,"date":"2016-08-16T16:18:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T16:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mininghalloffame.ca\/test-page-copy-copy"},"modified":"2024-07-09T11:33:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T11:33:53","slug":"robert-m-friedland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mininghalloffame.ca\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"Robert M. Friedland (b. 1950)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Friedland has been a dynamic, transformative force in the Canadian and international mining industries for more than 25 years. The entrepreneur, financier and company-maker is one of the most recognized mining personalities and achievers on the world stage.<\/p>\n<p>With his leadership, executives and companies affiliated with his Ivanhoe Capital Corporation have raised more than US$10 billion on world capital markets to advance a diverse portfolio of natural resources exploration and development projects, and leading- edge exploration and communications technologies, in more than 30 nations.<\/p>\n<p>In Canada, Friedland co-founded Diamond Fields Resources in 1992 and became co- chairman in 1994, handling financing, after a hunt for diamonds and base metals by contracted geologists made the initial discovery of nickel and copper at Voisey\u2019s Bay, in Newfoundland and Labrador.<\/p>\n<p>Encouraged by Friedland\u2019s \u201cstake-to-the-horizon\u201d mantra, and his capacity to secure investment commitments, Diamond Fields\u2019 intensive exploration left nothing significant for the rush of latecomers. Inco won the big-league bidding orchestrated by Friedland, paid CDN$4.3 billion for the Voisey\u2019s Bay discoveries in 1996 and began production in 2005.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/owJFqPfQ9nA?si=aVUcxZadxmiAmrfU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Chicago-born Friedland graduated with a political science degree from Reed College, Oregon, in 1974. Flashlight inspection of an abandoned drift at the inactive Warner gold mine, on Oregon timberland acquired in an investment partnership with college pal (and Apple co-founder) Steve Jobs, provided the first glint of Friedland\u2019s mining destiny in 1978. He found only fool\u2019s gold (pyrite), but it sparked innate curiosity, and lifelong intrigue, about understanding earth\u2019s mineral riches.<\/p>\n<p>Distinguished B.C. geologist and mine-finder Victor Hollister became his first mining mentor when Friedland entered Vancouver\u2019s frenetic, junior mining scene in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Warner was a founding asset in Galactic Resources, his early-1980s listing debut on the VSE and TSX. Galactic\u2019s ill-fated, and regretted, Summitville gold mine in Colorado imprinted Friedland with respect for his ventures\u2019 fulfilments of environmental obligations \u2013 and, he adds, wariness of tactics by governmental agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Friedland founded and financed Fairbanks Gold, whose Fort Knox discovery was sold to Amax Gold (now Kinross) for US$152 million in 1992 and remains Alaska\u2019s largest gold producer.<\/p>\n<p>Holding U.S. and Canadian citizenships, Friedland made Singapore home base for Ivanhoe Capital and assembled Asia Pacific projects in Canada-based Ivanhoe Mines, a new flagship launched in Toronto in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Ivanhoe Mines began exploration of its Oyu Tolgoi prospect in Mongolia in 2000, which progressively revealed a 12-kilometre-long chain of copper-gold-silver deposits that ranks among the world\u2019s most significant mineral discoveries. Rio Tinto acquired majority control of Oyu Tolgoi in 2012, began open-pit production in 2013 and is planning development of a giant underground mine.<\/p>\n<p>Also in 2000, Friedland\u2019s African Minerals began exploration in Sub-Saharan Africa, adopting the Ivanhoe Mines name in 2013. In 2014, construction began for a mechanized, underground mine on the site of a major discovery of platinum-group elements, nickel, copper and gold on South Africa\u2019s Platreef. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivanhoe\u2019s 2009 Kamoa copper discovery \u2013 the DRC\u2019s largest in a century \u2013 is recognized as the world\u2019s largest, undeveloped, high-grade copper deposit.<\/p>\n<p>Friedland\u2019s industry recognitions include Canada\u2019s Developer of the Year (1996) and Mining Person of the Year (2006); Australia\u2019s Dealmaker of the Year (2011); and Hong Kong\u2019s inaugural Mining Personality of the Year (2012).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Friedland has been a dynamic, transformative force in the Canadian and international mining industries for more than 25 years. 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