Centerra buys 9.9% of Liberty to expand Idaho bet
Centerra Gold (TSX: CG, NYSE: CGAU) agreed to buy 9.9% of Liberty Gold (TSX: LGD; US-OTC: LGDTF) for about $28 million to add a stake in a junior miner that’s…
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New Found Gold buys Maritime for $292M
New Found Gold (TSXV: NFG; NYSE-A: NFGC) is acquiring Maritime Resources (TSXV: MAE) in a deal valued at about $292 million (US$212 million) that would create a multi-asset gold producer…
Burkina Faso seeks to ease investor concerns
Burkina Faso, Africa’s fourth-largest gold producer, is trying to reassure international miners that its request to acquire more of West African Resources’ (ASX: WAF) Kiaka gold mine is an option,…
Anglo sells rest of Amplats
Anglo American (LSE: AAL) sold its final stake in Valterra Platinum (JSE: VAL), formerly Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), as part of restructuring it began last year. The deal for the…
UK OKs Dundee’s $1.25B Adriatic buy
Dundee Precious Metals (TSX: DPM) has secured UK court approval for its acquisition of London-based silver-zinc miner Adriatic Metals (LSE: ADT1), a deal that it now expects to close this…
Evolve Royalties in $70M deal for Voyageur Explorers
Private firm Evolve Strategic Element Royalties is poised to acquire the Prairies- and copper-zinc-gold-focused Voyageur Mineral Explorers (CSE: VOY) in a reverse takeover valued at $70.3 million. Voyageur is…
Energy Fuels soars on Vulcan Elements partnership
Energy Fuels (NYSE-A: UUUU; TSX: EFR) and U.S. permanent magnet producer Vulcan Elements have teamed up to create what would be “a resilient domestic supply chain” for rare earth magnets…
Aris to exit Canada after $25M deal
Aris Mining (TSX: ARIS; NYSE-AM: ARMN) is set to leave Canada with the sale of its Juby gold project, its sole Canadian asset, to McFarlane Lake Mining (CSE: MLM; US-OTC:…
Pan American locks $2.1B takeover of MAG Silver
Pan American Silver (TSX, NYSE: PAAS) has secured final regulatory approval to complete its $2.1-billion (C$2.9-billion) acquisition of MAG Silver (TSX, NYSE: MAG), cementing control over one of Mexico’s most…
Peabody nixes $3.8B Anglo coal deal
Anglo American’s (LSE: AAL) efforts to streamline its business have hit a major roadblock after Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU) scrapped a $3.8-billion (C$5.27-billion) deal to acquire its Australian metallurgical coal…
Harmony Gold’s MAC Copper takeover OK’d
Harmony Gold’s (JSE: HAR; NYSE: HMY) acquisition of MAC Copper (NYSE: MTAL; ASX: MAC) has cleared the final regulatory hurdle after Australia’s Foreign Investment Review Board gave its approval of…
GoviEx lists on ASX, rebrands as Atomic Eagle
GoviEx Uranium (TSXV: GXU) has entered the Australian capital market by combining with ASX-listed shell company Tombador Iron (ASX: TI1) in a proposed reverse takeover that would see GoviEx end…