July 19 (Reuters) - Ivanhoe Mines Ltd IVN.TO :
* Ivanhoe Mines appoints two additional leading financial institutions to arrange project financing for the development of the platreef pgms, nickel, copper and gold mine in South Africa
* Ivanhoe Mines Ltd - expressions of interest now received for approximately US$900 million of targeted US$1 billion project financing
* Ivanhoe Mines Ltd - Imlas will make "best efforts" to arrange a total debt financing of up to us$1 billion for development of platreef's first-phase
* Ivanhoe Mines-negotiation of term sheet ongoing between Ivanhoe's finance team, Imlas; talks held during week of july 3 in Johannesburg, South Africa