Las Bambas Projectj

Joe Albright, Project Director 4 October 2012

Agenda

• Project Overview• Highlights

Ch ll• Challenges• Initiatives• Schedule• PicturesPictures• Summary

Assembly of the first two dozers that support the projectAssembly of the first two dozers that support the project

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Project overviewNew tier one mine

12Description• Location: Apurimac, Peru

Copper in resourceMt Copper

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10p

• Ownership: 100%• Mineral Resource: 1.71 billion tonnes @

0.61% Cu• Concentrator: 140ktpd, 2 grinding lines

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2005 2008 2010 2011

Measured Indicated Inferred

p g g• Production: 400ktpa Cu for at least first

five years• Capex forecast $5.2bn• LOM: ~20 years

Project Status• Approved by Xstrata plc Board July 2010• ESIA approved March 2011pp• Main Construction Permit issued 31 May

2012• Mass Earthworks started 1 June 2012• Engineering 90% complete

3First Concrete, Flotation Area Tower Crane

• Commitments $3.02 billion, 58% locked-in pricing

• Construction 5% complete

Project locationLeveraging synergies with Tintaya Antapaccay

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Engineering highlights

• Overall progress 90% complete

• 90% Model Reviews completed of process facilities

• Productivity better than budgeted

Off Si d i li d 220k • Off Site access roads, pipeline, and 220kv power line over 95% complete

• Bi-modal concentrate transport system and port expansion engineering Primary Crusher 3D rendition Hazopp p g gprogressing

• Hazard & Operability Reviews (Hazop) on process plant and pipeline completed

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• Primary Risk Assessments completed

• Target to be substantially complete end of year

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Procurement highlights

• All major process plant equipment committed

• SAG and Ball Mill shells Primary Crusher and • SAG and Ball Mill shells, Primary Crusher, and Gearless Motor Drives delivered to storage

• Overland Conveyor, Truck Shop, Camps, and Landfill are committed

• Mine fleet and mine equipment deliveries commenced to the site

• Structural steel, re-bar, and concentrate i li i d li d t th it

Structural Steel Convoy

pipeline pipe delivered to the site

• Over 1,000 pieces of construction equipment delivered to the site and working

• Construction Contracts for roads power line • Construction Contracts for roads, power line, concentrate pipeline, Concentrator Mass Earthworks and Primary Crusher Earthworks has been awarded

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• Tailing and water dam contracts bids received

SAG Mill Shells

Construction highlights

• Over 150 houses under construction at Nueva Fuerabamba

Sustainability achievementsNueva Fuerabamba

• First 50 km of Heavy Haul Road placed into service 15 September 2012

• First permanent concrete poured (Flotation

10.5 million MH’s worked since last LTI

Zero Cat 3 Environmental First permanent concrete poured (Flotation Area Tower Crane) in August 2012

• Earthworks commenced on Coarse Ore Storage, Grinding Building, Flotation Area, T ili Thi k O l d C

Incidents

Completed six HMSE site Audits

Tailings Thickeners, Overland Conveyor, Primary Crusher and Chuspiri Dam

• 8 camps completed with 7,100 beds available

• Construction man-power 8,000 people including locals

• Over 20% local employment

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• Over $2 million per month local spend

Nueva Fuerabamba town

Challenges

• Cost of Social License

Permits

Industry-wide risks

– Permits

– Rights of way

– Relocations and demolition

– Work stoppages from protests– Work stoppages from protests

• Nueva Fuerabamba

– Earthworks

– ProductivityProductivity

• Labour Issues

– Available resources

– ProductivityProductivity

• Price Escalation

– Steel, electrical materials, and fuel rose sharply

– Construction equipment/earthworks contracts are up

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Earthworks underway

Initiatives

• Social and Sustainable Development programs for locals

Proactive mitigation of risks

programs for locals

• Community based communication program

• Design reviews and enhancementsDesign reviews and enhancements

• Pro-active project cost estimates

• Aggressive risk management programp g

• Execution scope packages

• Replication, Synergy, Integration

• Chilean specialty labourChilean specialty labour

• Six Sigma

• Focus on indirect expenditures

E l t / E l d li

The team that poured the first concrete at the Flotation Plant Tower Crane – August 2012.

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• Early procurement / Early delivery

Schedule

• Despite the delay to receiving the main construction permit, Las Bambas is still on trackto commence commissioning in the second half of 2014

Current progress

to commence commissioning in the second half of 2014

Activity 1H10 2H10 1H11 2H11 1H12 2H12 1H13 2H13 1H14 2H14 1H15

P j J lProject approved

July

Constructionpermit

May

EngineeeringEngineeering

Procurement

Construction

Production

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Las Bambas Project Overview

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Concentrator Area

Earthworks at Concentrator

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Construction UnderwayInfrastructure Areas

Batch Plant

Chuspiri Dam

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Fuel Depot

Batch Plant

5,000 m3 pondBatch PlantBatch Plant

Main Construction camp

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Construction Camp Platform

Camp and offices

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Modules now occupied

Pioneer & OHL Camps

Pioneer Camp general view OHL Camp general view

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Las Bambas under full constructionOn schedule and capex successfully contained

• Project to deliver 400ktpa Cu for at least

Tier one asset Confidence in project schedule

C d t t ti Project to deliver 400ktpa Cu for at least first five years, plus Au and Mo credits, ~20 year mine life

• Capital forecast post majority of i i t bli h d t $5 2b

• Commenced permanent construction on 1 June 2012

• Project Progress is 19% complete

• Workforce mobilised with 8 000 people engineering established at $5.2bn• Including +$130M uncontrollable increase

from permit approval delays and +$140M from community relocation

Workforce mobilised with 8,000 people on site

• Mass earthworks underway in all areas

• Bid process complete on major contracts

19%O erall Progress

• Low capital intensity of $13,000/annual tonne copper equivalent

• First quartile cash costs

• Resource: 1 71bn tonnes @ 0 61% Cu

• Commissioning to start Q4 2014

Per cent complete

90%

15%

58%

83%

19%

EngineeringNueva Fuerabamba

Procurement

ContractsOverall Progress

42%

81%

85%

10%

17%

• Resource: 1.71bn tonnes @ 0.61% Cu, 0.2% cut-off, plus Au & Mo providing expansion opportunities

• $1.82/lb Cu price over life of mine earns f l

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90%

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ConstructionEngineering

Completed Remaining

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95%

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Xstrata’s cost of capital

Questions?Questions?