Echo Bay Mines (ECO-X) has completed its acquisition of half of Santa Elina Gold (SAU-T), and, as a result, shareholders of the latter can exchange their shares for those of the former.
Echo Bay raised its interest in the company to 50% from 7%. The remaining half interest is held by Sercor, a private Brazilian company.
Under the agreement, 6.67 shares of Santa Elina can be exchanged for one common share of Echo Bay. Santa Elina’s shares will be delisted from the Toronto Stock Exchange.
In other news, Robert Armstrong has been appointed president and chief executive officer of Santa Elina’s operations, whose primary assets are in Brazil. The company controls about 4 million hectares of mineral claims there.
In Goias state, the company is advancing the Chapada gold-copper porphyry deposit, as well as the Fazenda Nova gold project. In Mato Grosso state, Santa Elina owns the Sao Francisco project and operates the Sao Vicente gold mine.
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