BHP makes takeover offer for Rio
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Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton say it has made an offer to buy its rival Rio Tinto.
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Canada nickel miner Inco Ltd.   N.TO on Sunday recommended that shareholders accept a   C$19.35 billion ($17.12 billion) all-cash takeover offer from   Brazil's Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) VALE5.SA.
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Business & money: Shares in world's largest miner down almost 6% in London after hostile Â£75bn takeover bid for Rio Tinto
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MINING giant BHP Billiton has confirmed it held preliminary talks with the Government of India&#39;s Orissa state and Korean steel maker Posco about options for its iron ore business on the sub-continent.
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BHP Billiton's  might have to  sweeten its $147.4 billion bid for rival miner Rio Tinto   to win over shareholders, one fund manager said on  Wednesday.
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Companhia Vale do Rio Doce of Brazil said it had extended its 19 billion Canadian dollars ($17 billion) tender offer for the Canadian mining company Inco to give regulators time to approve the deal. Rio Doce said it extended the deadline to Oct. 16 from Sept. 28. Rio Doce, the worldÂs largest iron ore miner, has obtained regulatory approval from the Canadian Competition Bureau and from authorities in the United States, but must still get clearance from the European Commission and Investment Canada.
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Copper producer Antofagasta makes a $400m offer for Australian business Equatorial Mining, sparking a bid battle.
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MONTREAL/LONDON  - Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc  offered $38.1 billion to buy Canada's Alcan Inc in an agreed deal to create the world's No. 1 aluminum producer, trumping a hostile bid by Alcoa Inc
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The move came after Chinese officials expressed concern over BHP Billitonâs plans to link up with Rio Tinto in a merger that would give the combined company a dominant position in iron ore.
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The world's largest miner BHP Billiton is under increasing pressure to sweeten its three-for-one share offer for Rio Tinto, a report said Wednesday.
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Rio Tintoâs recent offer of $38.1 billion for Alcan may be a sign that aluminum is no longer an estranged cousin in the mining industry.
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The world&#39;s largest mining group, BHP  Billington Ltd.,  is considering a rival bid for  aluminum producer Alcan Inc.  and has hired an  investment bank, sources familiar with the matter said on  Monday.
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BHP Billiton Ltd/Plc  ,  the world&#39;s biggest miner, is in talks with private equity  firms to team up for a possible $40 billion bid for U.S.  aluminum company Alcoa Inc , the Times said on Tuesday.
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Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Wednesday said all conditions on its 38.1 billion US dollar takeover of Alcan Inc had been satisfied and most shareholders had accepted its offer.
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MELBOURNE: BHP Billiton Ltd/Plc, the world&#39;s largest diversified miner, said yesterday it would buy back up to A$1.5bil of its Australia-listed shares at a discount to the market price.
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Rio Tinto Chief Executive Tom Albanese on Sunday left the door open to a sweetened takeover offer from BHP Billiton, but said Rio would be happy to grow on its own if BHP walked away.
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China has muscled in on the miner BHP Billitonâs attempts to buy rival Rio Tinto, with its biggest aluminum producer teaming up with American group Alcoa to buy a 12 percent stake.