Hostile Bid Made to Create World&#39;s Largest Gold Company
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Harmony Gold Mining, South Africa&#39;s gold largest miner, made a hostile bid today to acquire buy Gold Fields for 52.9 billion rand ($8.
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BHP Billiton, the world's biggest miner, is preparing a hostile bid for peer Rio Tinto whose board has turned down a friendly approach worth billions of US dollars, British newspapers said Sunday.
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Another bid in the mining sector turned hostile yesterday when Xstrata said it would take its A$7.4bn (Â£3.2bn) offer for WMC Resources directly to shareholders.
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MELBOURNE (Dow Jones)--Xstrata PLC (XTA.LN) Monday launched a hostile A$7.4 billion bid for WMC Resources Ltd. (WMR.AU), increasing pressure on Australia&#39;s last sizable
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Xstrata Plc., which has made a hostile A$7.4 billion ($5.7 billion) bid for WMC Resources Ltd., said it received the first acceptance of its offer for the world&#39;s fifth largest nickel producer.
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A consortium led by Chinaâs biggest gold mining company, the Zijin Mining Group, has made a $185.4 million bid for the British copper mining company Monterrico Metals in what could become Chinaâs first outright takeover of an overseas listed company. The acquisition would be the latest in a series of low-profile but substantial purchases of overseas mining assets by Chinese companies, part of the countryâs quest to diversify supplies of strategically important resources. Monterrico, which is based in London, holds rights to the still-undeveloped Rio Blanco copper and molybdenum deposits in northern Peru, which the company says could yield up to 25 millions tons of copper ore a year. Zijin holds a 45 percent share in the consortium, with a Chinese copper mining company, Tongling, taking 35 percent and Xiamen C& D, a trading and real estate conglomerate, holding 20 percent, Zijin said.
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JOHANNESBURG: South Africaâs Harmony Gold has pounced on bigger domestic rival Gold Fields with an unsolicited, all-share takeover bid worth about $8bn to create the worldâs biggest gold producer.
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As Swiss-based miner Xstrata pushes ahead with its A$7.4bn (US$5.8bn) hostile takeover bid for WMC Resources, debate over the deal has narrowed to one key issue - the potential of the Australian miner&#39;s giant Olympic Dam project.
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The board of Gold Fields Ltd. urged shareholders Wednesday to reject a $8.1-billion-US takeover bid by South African gold producer Harmony Gold Mining Co.
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Swiss-based miner Xstrata says it will take its A$7.4 billion (3.1 billion pound) bid for Australia&#39;s WMC Resources directly to the company&#39;s shareholders, effectively making a hostile bid after WMC&#39;s management rejected its offer
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Harmony Gold Mining's hostile bid today to acquire buy Gold sparked what is certain to be a bitter takeover battle.
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South African gold producer Gold Fields has rejected a $8.2bn (Â£4.5bn) bid by rival Harmony which would have created the world&#39;s largest gold company.
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Johannesburg - South Africa&#39;s Harmony Gold Mining on Monday announced that it to launch a takeover bid for Gold Fields, offering a 29-percent premium for its entire share capital to create the world&#39;s leading gold mining group.
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JOHANNESBURG - Mining giant Gold Fields will know after a crucial shareholder vote on Tuesday if it has succeeded in ending a cheeky hostile take-over bid by its rival Harmony to create the world&#39;s largest gold producer.
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BHP Billiton formally launched a $147.4 billion hostile takeover bid for rival miner Rio Tinto.
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Business & money: Consortium led by the Royal Bank of Scotland is today expected to make a Â£49bn hostile takeover bid for the Dutch bank ABN Amro.
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Harmony Gold Mining Co, South African gold firm, has made a $8.2 billion bid to acquire its much bigger rival -- Gold Fields. If the acquisition or the merger goes through, it would create the world&#39;s largest gold producing company.