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Reference: Corrections of errors in Sydney Morning Herald article about Ivanhoe Mines' press release dated September 23, 2009

Reference: Corrections required to address false reporting by Mizzima News on Ivanhoe Mines' former interest in the Monywa Copper Project, Myanmar.

Reference: Distribution by Canadian Friends of Burma of further false claims regarding a five-year-old incident in Myanmar is an exploitive deception.

Reference: Canadian Friends of Burma continuing to mislead investors, politicians and media about Ivanhoe Mines' former interest in Myanmar.

Reference: Canadian Friends of Burma again misrepresenting the facts about Ivanhoe Mines' former interest in Myanmar.

http://www.ivanhoemines.com/s/Monywa.asp

Subject: Facts relating to environmental managment at the Monywa Copper Project

Subject: Facts about the Oyu Tologi mine development project in Mongolia

Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. issued the following statement today (March 13, 2006)

ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA - A story published today in the Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper's Report on Business section, headlined, "For Ivanhoe, new questions in Mongolia," follows a disturbing pattern of inaccurate and misleading accounts by the newspaper and its reporter, Geoffrey York, during the past 18 months about Ivanhoe Mines' business interests in Mongolia.

Chronology of principal emails between Globe and Mail newspaper reporter Geoffrey York and Ivanhoe corporate communications representative Bob Williamson March 9 & 10, 2006.

Statement by Robert M. Friedland, Chairman, Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.

SINGAPORE -- More than a month now has passed since Ivanhoe Mines was obliged to issue a public statement pointing out a series of significant errors and misrepresentations contained in a story written by reporter Geoffrey York and published in the Toronto-based Globe and Mail newspaper's Report on Business on July 28th, 2005.

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Robert Friedland, Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines, today rejected The Vancouver Sun's unjustified censoring of his Letter to the Editor commenting on a recent business column published in the newspaper's business section.

"After refusing to publish my letter, The Sun then said it would reconsider only on condition that it could chop my letter in half to remove, among other things, my reference to the recent admission of improper self-quoting by Sun writer David Baines," Mr. Friedland said. "Stifling fair comment through such editorial censorship is unacceptable."

Statement by Robert Friedland, Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines The London-based international mining group Anglo American plc has advised Ivanhoe Mines that a recent Bloomberg news story --- containing comment about Ivanhoe's Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold proj...

ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA - The following statement was issued to The Globe and Mail newspaper in Canada in response to questions directed to the company. Portions of the statement were included in a story published in The Globe and Mail on August 24th under the headline:

ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA --- Ivanhoe Mines and the Mongolian Government have been engaged in good-faith negotiations toward a stability agreement for the construction of a world-scale mining complex at the Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold deposits discovered ...

(A Financial Post story April 29, 2004) claimed that some (Ivanhoe Mines') insiders had enjoyed "big paydays," and specifically that deputy chairman Gordon Toll "took home" $11.6 million, and cited his "cashing in" more than 1.2 million stock options.

All of this created the false impression that Mr. Toll had sold his shares and pocketed $11.6 million.

It is important for the record, and to correct the misleading report, to make it clear that Mr. Toll did not sell --- or cash in --- his 1.2 million shares received through options.

A report in Forbes magazine did not allege that Robert Friedland or Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. made cheap shares available to equity analysts as an inducement to influence their coverage of the company's Mongolia project. Incorrect information appeared in a story in the Financial Post on Feb. 14. The Post regrets the error.

An examination of the story published by Forbes, a U.S.-based business magazine, on November 24, 2003, purporting to be largely about the Ivanhoe Mines copper-gold discovery at Turquoise Hill in Mongolia, will reveal that the story was not a product of open-minded information gathering and objective news reporting. The truth definitely did not dictate the story, as the following analysis shows.

Forbes misrepresented the November 24 story as news. However, the universal principles of impartial news reporting --- truth, accuracy, balance and fairness --- were sold out to serve Forbes' agenda of concocting a disparaging story about one of the largest copper-gold discoveries in mining-industry history.

The article, reporting on the current mining boom in Mongolia, and in particular on Ivanhoe Mines' copper-gold discovery at Turquoise Hill in the South Gobi region, also contained some historical references to the Summitville Mine in Colorado.

Mr. Friedland today commended The New York Times for its willingness to correct the public record created by the publication of the erroneous Summitville references to help ensure that others do not copy the mistakes.

The November 11 Vancouver Sun story, purporting to be largely about the Ivanhoe Mines discovery at Turquoise Hill in Mongolia, incredibly failed to mention a single word about an Ivanhoe news release issued November 10 that announced massive increases in the independent estimates of inferred resources that have been discovered so far on Ivanhoe's Mongolian project.

I am aware that an article, prepared for the November 24th issue of Forbes magazine and already circulating on the Internet, questions the significance of Ivanhoe Mines' gold and copper discovery in Mongolia's South Gobi region.

The Forbes article suppresses and obfuscates the truth about Ivanhoe's discovery and its project transactions and falsely defames me by impugning my business ethics.

STATEMENT
Thirteen months ago, the Board of Directors of Ivanhoe Mines issued a formal, public statement welcoming encouraging developments that had occurred in Myanmar. At the time, the Myanmar government had lifted travel restrictions on Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar's National League for Democracy, and there was considerable optimism over the outlook for important progress toward democratic reforms within the country.

It is disappointing to see that some special-interest groups are continuing to make allegations about Ivanhoe Mines' involvement in Myanmar that they know to be untrue.

In a news release issued yesterday, the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) and the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM) repeated false allegations that they first made about Ivanhoe one year ago, and which they now know to be untrue, presumably in an attempt to mislead media and to influence political opinion in Canada.

Daniel Kunz, President of Ivanhoe Mines, said today that the company's investment in Myanmar, as a 50% partner in the Monywa Copper Project, is a model for resource development in an emerging country.

"We are proud of the 600 men and women in Myanmar who, with the help of only nine expatriates, are successfully operating this state-of-the-art mine, which is conforming to international standards in terms of health, safety and the environment, and contributing to improved community health care," Mr. Kunz said in a statement prepared for Ivanhoe Mines' annual general meeting.

Canadian Friends of Burma and MiningWatch Canada distributed a document on Monday, September 18, 2000, which purports to be a report on mining in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. The two groups, which commissioned the report, also issued an executive summary of the report and a news release as part of their campaign against companies with business interests in Myanmar.

References to Ivanhoe Mines and its Myanmar copper project within the three documents contain blatant falsehoods.