Ivanhoe Mines CEO Robert Friedland a Keynote Speaker At International Mining Conference in Florida on February 27

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Feb. 22, 2012) - Robert Friedland, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN)(NYSE:IVN)(NASDAQ:IVN), will be the keynote luncheon speaker at the BMO Capital Markets Global Metals & Mining Conference on Monday February 27, 2012, in Hollywood, Florida.

Mr. Friedland's keynote presentation, and a separate presentation on behalf of Ivanhoe Mines, will include a perspective on projected trends in global metals markets, an update on the rapid progress that is being made toward the start later this year of first copper-gold-silver production at the Oyu Tolgoi mining complex in southern Mongolia, production developments at Ivanhoe's subsidiaries and value-building initiatives.

About Ivanhoe Mines

Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN)(NYSE:IVN)(NASDAQ:IVN) is an international mining company with operations focused in the Asia Pacific region. Assets include the company's 66% interest in the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine development project in southern Mongolia; its 58% interest in Mongolian coal miner SouthGobi Resources (TSX:SGQ)(HK:1878); a 59% interest in Ivanhoe Australia (ASX:IVA)(TSX:IVA), a copper-gold-uranium-molybdenum-rhenium exploration and development company; and a 50% interest in Altynalmas Gold, a private company developing the Kyzyl Gold Project in Kazakhstan.

Ivanhoe Mines' shares are listed on the New York, NASDAQ and Toronto stock exchanges under the symbol IVN.