艾芬豪资本集团 (Ivanhoe Capital Corporation) 自1987年创立以来，专门为国际商业企业提供风险投资、项目融资和相关金融服务。
艾芬豪资本在新加坡、北京、伦敦和温哥华设有办事处，由主席兼创始人罗伯特•弗里兰德 (Robert M. Friedland)及其家族拥有和管理。
在弗里兰德先生的领导下，艾芬豪集团的高管和关联公司，自1993年以来透过多元化的融资工具在世界资本市场上筹集了超过250亿美元。筹集的资本已投入到30多个国家，主要针对矿产和能源资源行业以及通信技术范畴。部分项目接盘股东额外投入数十亿元以推进和扩展项目利益。
目前，艾芬豪资本的关联公司包括﹕艾芬豪矿业(TSX: IVN; OTCQX: IVPAF)、艾芬豪工业、I-Pulse、High Power Exploration, Pu Neng, Clean TeQ (ASX & TSX:CLQ)、Kietta及SK Global/艾芬豪影业。
二十五年来，国际金融家罗伯特•弗里兰德一直被全球金融领域和矿产资源行业的领导者公认为创业探险家、技术革新者和公司创建者。
弗里兰德先生于2016年1月入选著名的加拿大矿业名人堂，其创业与领导能力赢得了业界的高度认可。加拿大矿业名人堂将弗里兰德先生誉为“加拿大和国际采矿业一股充满活力的变革力量”和“世界上最受认可的矿业名人和成就者之一”，表彰他在公司建设和勘探方面的成就。弗里兰德先生在庆祝仪式上表示，他与几个敬业的团队分享了该荣誉，其团队在他的公司过去30年的努力促成了一系列重大矿产发现和新矿山。名人堂设于多伦多大学，展示了来自多伦多皇家安大略博物馆地球馆的宝藏。
2017年5月，弗里兰德先生于英国伦敦加拿大议会厅举行的加拿大矿业研讨会上获得“终身成就奖” – 该奖项由加拿大领先的开采业传媒集团、百年龙头刊物《北部采矿者》颁布。弗里兰德先生在2016年及2015年被英国的《矿业杂志》评为前20位塑造世界矿业未来最具影响力人士之一，形容他是“无可争议的初级开发公司之王”。同样在2016年，弗里兰德先生入选加拿大《金融邮报杂志》首届权力榜，成为“加拿大及世界最伟大、最忙碌且最具影响力领导者”的25名成员之一。
弗里兰德家族通过其位于旧金山的弗里兰德基金会，推动和参与各项国际慈善活动。
弗里兰德先生拥有美国和加拿大公民身份，目前居住在新加坡。他于1974 年毕业于美国俄勒冈州里德学院，获政治学本科学位。
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艾芬豪资本集团 (Ivanhoe Capital Corporation) 自1987年创立以来，专门为国际商业企业提供风险投资、项目融资和相关金融服务。
艾芬豪资本在新加坡、北京、伦敦和温哥华设有办事处，由主席兼创始人罗伯特•弗里兰德 (Robert M. Friedland) 及其家族拥有和管理。
在弗里兰德先生的领导下，艾芬豪集团和关联公司的高管，自 1993 年以来通过多元化的融资工具在世界 资本市场上筹集了超过 250 亿美元。筹集的资本已投入到 30 多个国家，主要针对矿产和能源资源行业以 及通信技术范畴。部分项目接盘人额外投入数十亿元以推进和扩展项目利益。
其私营和上市公司开拓的业务涉及世界各地多个重大矿产发现和矿山开发、创新型技术的应用，并且为亚太地区、南部非洲和美洲等发达市场及新兴市场带来重大经济增长。
目前，艾芬豪资本的关联公司包括﹕艾芬豪矿业(TSX: IVN; OTCQX: IVPAF)、艾芬豪工业、I-Pulse、High Power Exploration、普能公司、 Clean TeQ (ASX & TSX:CLQ)、Kietta及SK Global Entertainment/艾芬豪影业。
自1993年以来，艾芬豪矿业的企业品牌由弗里兰德先生 (Mr. Friedland) 建立的两家创始公司稳步发展而成，演变为成就卓越的上市旗舰公司，拥有业界领先的采矿和矿产勘探企业。
1993年，弗里兰德先生成立了非洲矿产 (African Minerals)，即如今的艾芬豪矿业的前身，开发非洲的矿产业务，其后于2013年发展成为艾芬豪矿业，目前正开发三个位于南部非洲的世界级采矿项目。2018年9月，中国的中信金属非洲（隶属于中国巨头中信企业集团）以7.23亿加元投资额战略入股艾芬豪矿业，弗里兰德先生担任公司的执行联席主席。2019年8月，中信以6.12亿加元投资额第二次战略入股艾芬豪矿业，使得其在艾芬豪的投资达到13亿加元（10亿美元）以上。
过去24年以来，弗里兰德先生曾分别为如今的和原来的艾芬豪矿业，担任执行主席和主席等多个高级领导职位。
原来的艾芬豪矿业于1994年成立，当时公司名称为Indochina Goldfields，并且于1996年成功完成首次公开募股，领导亚太地区一系列著名的采矿和勘探项目发展。1999年，Indochina改名为艾芬豪矿业，并在接下来的13年中成功塑造了这个品牌。
如今的艾芬豪矿业:
南部非洲的成就缔造了现代采矿业的传奇历史
一家由弗里兰德先生于1993年成立的合资公司，在1994年改名为非洲矿产 (African Minerals)，作为其家族公司艾芬豪资本集团的联营公司，专门收购具有潜力的非洲矿产项目。从2000年11月起，弗里兰德先生分别以主席、联席主席和总裁等身份，带领随后公司 (包括Ivanplats) 的发展。作为执行主席，弗里兰德先生于 2012 年成功领导了 Ivanplats 的首次公开募股 (IPO)，从国际投资者处筹集了 3.06 亿加元(3.08 亿美元) 的资金。这是当时两年多以来加拿大采矿业最大规模的首次公开募股。
2013年，Ivanplats进行战略性公司调整，构建管理其在南部非洲三个同时进行的矿产开发项目和持续勘探计划，随后更名为如今的“艾芬豪矿业”。如今的艾芬豪矿业已更新业务范畴并重新调整工作重心，使其成为矿产建设和勘探企业，公司股票在加拿大的多伦多证券交易所和美国柜台交易市场 (OTCQX Best Market) 进行交易。
· 目前，艾芬豪持有Platreef 先进的地下铂金-钯-镍-铜-金矿项目64%的股权，该项目正在建设中，位于南非著名布什维尔德杂岩体的Flatreef一级勘探区内，已建成的矿产产量占全球铂金年产量的70%以上。 Platreef被独立预测为非洲成本最低的铂族金属生产商。南非广泛黑人经济赋权合作伙伴持有Platreef 项目26%的股权，其余的10%股权由伊藤忠商事牵头的日本财团持有，该财团包括日本政府拥有的Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation、ITC Platinum Development 和JGC Corporation。
· 位于刚果民主共和国(以下简称“刚果”)，艾芬豪矿业及其中国合资伙伴紫金矿业集团目前正开发的世界级Kamoa-Kakula项目。该项目目前被独立评为非洲大陆采矿史上最大规模的铜矿勘探区和全世界最大规模的高品位铜矿勘探区。目前， Kansoko 和Kakula矿场的两个相邻矿床正按计划进行通道建设。艾芬豪也在邻近Kamoa-Kakula开采许可范围，其全资拥有的Western Foreland勘探许可范围内探索新的铜矿。2015年12月，紫金同意投资4.12亿美元，收购Kamoa-Kakula项目的权益。艾芬豪与紫金目前各自持有该项目的39.6%权益，刚果政府则持有20%股份。
· 艾芬豪矿业的第三个开发项目是同样位于刚果、历史悠久的 Kipushi矿的大规模重建和改善工程。该矿原先自 1924 年投产，被公认为世界最富有的前锌-铜生产商之一。2018 年7 月的一份独立矿产资源评估报告称，Kipushi 目前的锌品位为 35.3%，高于世界品位排名第二的锌项目两倍以上。艾芬豪持有 Kipushi 项目 68%的权益，余下的32%由刚果国有采矿公司 Gécamines 持有，预计重新投产后将会成为世界十大锌生产商之一。
1996年至2012年间，原来的艾芬豪矿业及其子公司曾经在蒙古、澳大利亚、中国、缅甸、南韩和斐济进行或参与采矿业务，并且因在北美多伦多、纽约和纳斯达克证券交易所上市，建立了庞大的股东网络。(1994年成立名为Indochina Goldfields，反映初期着眼于亚太地区采矿业务的发展，其后于1999年第一个改用更广为大众认识的艾芬豪矿业品牌。)
弗里兰德先生担任执行主席和主席的职务长达17年，直至2011年5月退任。从1996年6月至2006年5月以及2010年10月至2012年4月期间，担任公司的创始总裁兼首席执行官。
2000 年，艾芬豪矿业开始在蒙古进行勘探活动，在接下来的十年内于南戈壁发现了 12.4 公里 (7.7 英里) 的一级铜、金矿床链。奥尤•陶勒盖矿区于2010年展开建设工程，并于2013年投产。
宏伟的奥尤•陶勒盖矿录得78万吨铜、180万盎司黄金和450万盎司白银，并且在2014年至2017年间带来了21亿美元的运营现金流(未计利息和税项)。但奥尤•陶勒盖规模巨大的丰富矿产80%都蕴藏在更深层的地下矿床之中，其中铜品位比较在露天开采发现的铜品位高出360%。新的地下矿场预计于 2021 年展开初步生产，将会进一步推动奥尤•陶勒盖成为世界第三大铜矿场。
2015年，运营公司Oyu Tolgoi LLC与一个由20家国际金融机构组成的财团(其中包括代表加拿大、美国和澳大利亚政府的机构) 签订了一项44 亿美元的项目信贷融资，还同意提供总债务规模为60 亿美元的贷款。这是世界采矿业有史以来最大规模的融资安排。
国际矿业巨头力拓 (Rio Tinto) 于2012年获得前艾芬豪矿业的控制权，并根据与弗里兰德先生达成的协议，放弃艾芬豪的品牌并改名为Turquoise Hill Resources，为艾芬豪矿业的故事打开新的一页。
Mr. Friedland is co-founder, Chairman and CEO of I-Pulse, a private company formed in 2007 that is developing revolutionary commercial applications for pulsed power technology to tackle some of today’s most pressing global challenges. The technology repeatedly compresses and releases pulses of electrical energy in billionths of a second in ways to disrupt major heavy industrial processes, in manufacturing, resource exploration, and energy generation, in ways to make them more cost effective, more efficient, and more sustainable.
The ultra-high-powered discharges can be directed to: shape and assemble metals at high speeds, enabling new forming and welding applications; generate electrical fields that reveal the presence of chargeable or resistive mineral deposits, or water and oil reservoirs, at depths beyond the reach of conventional survey technologies; crush rock containing minerals or gemstones and improve extraction with significantly reduced energy requirements; reconnect geothermal production wellbores to reservoirs by removing blockages without chemicals or explosives; and disaggregate rock and rapidly penetrate hard rock for deep drilling. In 2024, I-Pulse also launched its latest venture for an AI-powered, precision high power pulsed weed killing tool. I-Pulse currently has facilities in Toulouse, France; Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; Detroit, Michigan, USA; Calgary, Canada; Tokyo, Japan; and London, United Kingdom.
Mr. Friedland is Chairman of Blue Spark Energy, a former subsidiary of I-Pulse that was distributed to existing shareholders in 2024. Blue Spark Energy was formed in 2011 to target the energy industry. The proprietary high-pulsed powered well stimulation technology has a a proven track record of immediately enhancing production and injections rates in existing energy wells. It lowers costs, minimizes well downtime and does this via clean electricity in place of chemicals, explosives or mechanical means that bring substantial risk to the operation and environment. Blue Spark has been adopted by many of the major energy companies today and is rapidly expanding both their reach and application footprint globally.
In November 2022, I-Pulse and Breakthrough Energy Ventures-Europe (BEV-E), founded by Bill Gates and backed by many of the world's top business leaders, announced the establishment of I-ROX, which is focused on demonstrating that short, high-intensity bursts of energy delivered using pulsed-power technology can quickly and efficiently shatter rocks and mineral ores. This process, which targets tensile weakness in rocks, could substantially reduce the time, energy consumption, and thereby the significant emissions footprint, as well as increasing recovery of the critical minerals essential for enabling a range of clean energy technologies. In December 2022, I-Pulse and I-ROX announced a comprehensive collaboration arrangement with BHP, a world-leading resources company, to identify and develop applications of pulsed-power technology across multiple aspects of the mining industry.
Ivanhoe Atlantic is strategic critical minerals supplier that has I-Pulse, co-founded and chaired by Mr. Mr. Friedland, as it’s major shareholder. Ivanhoe Atlantic’s current focus is bringing the ultra-high-grade long- life Kon Kweni Project in Guinea into production to deliver a low carbon sustainable supply of iron ore in support of the move to green steel.
Mr. Friedland is also Founder and Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Electric (NYSE: IE; TSX: IE), a US minerals exploration and development company focused on advancing its portfolio of electric metals projects located primarily in the United States and Saudi Arabia. Ivanhoe Electric applies proprietary, geophysical technologies to rapidly evaluate underground geological targets and accelerate exploration programs targeting mineral and water resources. Ivanhoe Electric’s Typhoon™ data acquisition system is a world-leading, accurate and powerful, induced polarization and electromagnetic geophysical survey
technology, whose applications may be supplemented with advanced data processing by Computational Geosciences, an Ivanhoe Electric subsidiary.
In May 2023, Ivanhoe Electric announced the signing of a Definitive Agreement with Saudi Arabian Mining Company Ma’aden, which sets out the binding framework for a strategic investment of US$126.4 million by Ma’aden into the common stock of Ivanhoe Electric and the concurrent establishment of a 50/50 exploration joint venture in Saudi Arabia. Ivanhoe Electric will provide the Joint Venture with a royalty-free license to use Typhoon™ within Saudi Arabia for the purpose of mineral exploration. Ma’aden will make available approximately 48,500 km2 of land under exploration license or license application within Saudi Arabia for exploration by the Joint Venture.
In September 2016, Mr. Friedland was appointed board Co-Chairman of Sunrise Energy Metals (formerly Clean TeQ), an Australia-listed company providing innovative and sustainable solutions for metals recovery and water treatment. Sunrise Energy Metals is developing the Sunrise Project in the State of New South Wales, Australia, a multi-decade nickel-cobalt resource which also hosts one of the world’s largest and highest-grade sources of scandium. Nickel and cobalt sulphate from Sunrise will be supplied to the lithium-ion battery market; scandium oxide will be used to produce lighter and stronger aluminum alloys for aerospace and automotive markets.
Robert is also a major investor in a variety of deep tech investments, including Pure Lithium, a Boston- based lithium battery company. Pure Lithium is a product of the famous MIT professor Don Sadoway’s lab and is seeking to create lithium metal batteries for use in a wide variety of applications. Lithium metal batteries are the holy grail of energy storage and will replace today’s aging lithium-ion technology with a far superior product in efficacy and safety.
During the 1990s, Ivanhoe Capital became a founding investor in internet services pioneer Beijing Stone Rich Sight Information Technology, which merged with Sinanet.com in 1999 to form Sina.com which went on to launch Weibo, one of the most widely used social media platforms in China. Ivanhoe Capital also provided founding venture capital for U.S.-based Sirius Satellite Radio, which later completed a strategic merger and went on to build SiriusXM into the largest audio entertainment company in North America that has reported more than 33 million satellite and internet subscribers in 2024.
In an initial 2013 venture into the premium hospitality sector, a subsidiary of Mr. Friedland’s Ivanhoe Capital Corporation acquired the Villa TreVille luxury boutique hotel, overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea at Positano, on Italy’s historic Amalfi Coast. The former home of celebrated opera director and moviemaker Maestro Franco Zeffirelli provides 16 distinctive suites contained in four elegant residences on the two- hectare (five-acre), cliff-face site. Ivanhoe Capital is also developing boutique hotels in Asia.
Mr. Friedland entered the international film sector in 2013 when he co-founded Ivanhoe Pictures. In March 2017, Ivanhoe Pictures merged with Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, an independent U.S. film finance and production company, to form SK Global Entertainment, which pursues international film and television opportunities from its headquarters in Santa Monica, California. Mr. Friedland was an Executive Producer of Crazy Rich Asians, the movie released in mid-2018 that became the highest-grossing romantic comedy in the U.S. since 2009. He also was Executive Producer of The Wailing, a Korean-language thriller and the most-awarded Korean film of 2016.
In 1996, Mr. Friedland, then Co-Chairman of Diamond Fields Resources, was named Developer of the Year by the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) for his work in establishing and financing companies engaged in mineral exploration and development around the world – a recognition, in part, of his leadership role in the Voisey’s Bay story. Also in 1996, Albert Chislett and Chris Verbiski – the prospectors who made the landmark nickel discovery at Voisey’s Bay, on Canada’s East Coast, while conducting exploration for Diamond Fields Resources – shared the PDAC’s Bill Dennis Award for Prospector of the Year. Voisey’s Bay subsequently was developed into one of the world’s major nickel mines.
The Mongolian Government's Foreign Investment and Foreign Trade Agency recognized Mr. Friedland with consecutive Investor Envoy of the Year awards in 2003 and 2002. As Chairman of the original Ivanhoe Mines, he was making international media headlines telling the story of Ivanhoe’s South Gobi discoveries and encouraging investors and miners to participate in the further exploration and development of Mongolia’s largely untapped mineral trove.
In 2005, during a state ceremony in the national capital, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia’s Prime Minister presented Mr. Friedland with a national Certificate of Honour formally acclaiming Ivanhoe Mines as a “friend” of Mongolia’s, recognizing the company’s investment in a fully repaid treasury bill that helped enable the country’s historic repayment to Russia of its Soviet-era debt. In 2023, Robert was awarded the Order of the Polar Star, Mongolia’s highest state honor for a foreign citizen.
In 2009, the Northern Miner publishing group named Mr. Friedland one of Canada's Super Seven Dynamos with track records of turning junior companies into major success stories. The publishing group also named Mr. Friedland the 2006 Mining Person of the Year for his success in negotiating a strategic partnership with Rio Tinto to develop Ivanhoe Mines' Oyu Tolgoi Project in Mongolia, terming it "a defining moment in one of the world's biggest mineral-development success stories of the past decade". The award’s citation credited Mr. Friedland as "a dynamic force for a quarter-century in the minerals industry through a host of private and public-company vehicles".
Mr. Friedland received the Dealmaker of the Year Award for the original Ivanhoe Mines from Australia's Diggers and Dealers Mining Forum in August 2011, which acknowledged his success in "managing some of the more interesting asset development logistics our industry has seen for many years". The citation said the award recognized "the entrepreneurial skills of developing one of the world's major projects (Mongolia’s Oyu Tolgoi) while retaining corporate ownership, retaining focus on the end goal as well as unlocking value in ancillary corporate assets (in particular, subsidiary Ivanhoe Australia)".
In September 2012, Canada’s Financial Post Magazine placed Mr. Friedland on its honor roll of The Most Influential People in Canada, chosen by a panel of corporate contemporaries. Ranking Mr. Friedland among the "most valuable players" in Canadian mining, the magazine headlined him as The Doer, citing his "knack for hurdling seemingly insurmountable challenges to turn dreams into reality".
In March 2012, Mr. Friedland was recognized as Mining Personality of the Year at the inaugural Asia Mining Awards, sponsored by the Hong Kong-based Asia Mining Club and the Mines & Money conference. The award noted his role in Mongolia's emergence as a major destination for mining investment. Ivanhoe Mines' Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mining complex was voted Project Development of the Year.
In March 2013, Mr. Friedland received the Jury's Award at the Mines & Money Asia Mining Awards ceremony in Hong Kong – a unanimous choice recognizing his role in the 2012 initial public offering by
the former Ivanplats (rebranded as Ivanhoe Mines in 2013) that raised more than C$300 million for the company's projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa. In a related, prior acknowledgement of Ivanplats’ successful 2012 initial public offering, the company was voted recipient of the Exploration Funding Award as part of the Outstanding Achievement Awards presented at the London Mines & Money conference in December 2012.
In March 2015, the current Ivanhoe Mines’ exploration team of staff and consulting geologists – led by Dr. David Broughton and Thomas Rogers – received the Thayer Lindsley Award from the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) for what it judged to be the industry’s most significant International Discovery: The first of two major copper deposits to be found at the company’s Kamoa Project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Now known as the Kamoa-Kakula Project, it is recognized as one the world’s 10 largest copper deposits. A decade earlier, in 2004, the PDAC’s inaugural Thayer Lindsley Award was presented to three senior geologists with the original Ivanhoe Mines – Douglas Kirwin, Charles Forster and Garamjav Dondog – who were credited with the discovery of the Hugo Dummett copper-gold deposit presently being developed for production as the underground, second phase of the Oyu Tolgoi Mine in Mongolia. Mr. Friedland presented the awards to the teams in 2015 and in 2004 on behalf of the PDAC.
In September 2016, the industry publication, Mining Journal, presented Mr. Friedland with its Lifetime Achievement Award during a Toronto conference for mining-industry interests in the Americas.
In January 2017, Ivanhoe Mines’ exploration geologists Sello Kekana and Dr. David Broughton were presented with the 2016 Colin Spence Award for excellence in global mineral exploration by the Association for Mineral Exploration, of British Columbia, Canada. The award recognized the geologists’ roles as principal members of the Ivanplats team that discovered and delineated the high-grade Flatreef – one of the world’s major deposits of platinum-group minerals – that is part of Ivanhoe’s Platreef mine development project in South Africa. Exploration at Platreef began in 2000; early discoveries culminated in the discovery of the tier-one Flatreef Deposit in 2010.
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