Barrick Gold Buys Celtic Resources Stake
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Canada's Barrick Gold Corp. said Thursday it was acquiring a 9 percent stake in London-based Celtic Resources Holding Ltd. &#151; a deal that potentially gives the Canadian gold giant major clout ahead of next year's auction of Russia's biggest gold deposit.
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12/6/04- There&#39;s a big deal in the gold-mining business. Goldcorp is buying its Canadian gold-mining competitor Wheaton River Minerals for about 2 billion dollars in stock.
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Challenger Financial Services Group, an Australian fund manager, said Monday that it bought a 5.8 percent stake in a British natural gas distribution network for 85 million Australian dollars, or $65 million, to diversify its portfolio of investments.
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The sale of National Australia Bank&#39;s Irish businesses reached a surprise conclusion yesterday when Denmark&#39;s Danske Bank clinched a Â£967m takeover.
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Toronto Dominion Bank (TD.TO), Canada's second-biggest by assets, said on Thursday it would acquire a majority stake of U.S.-based Banknorth Group Inc. (BNK.N), while also boosting its dividend and reporting a 17-percent rise in profits.
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Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts &amp; Co., the world&#39;s biggest buyout firm, agreed to buy Canadian building- products maker Masonite International Corp.
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MADRID/LONDON  - Spain's Iberdrola  is to buy Scottish Power  for an agreed 11.6 billion pounds ($22.5 billion) in cash and shares, it announced on Tuesday, to create Europe's third-biggest utility and a world leader in renewable energy.
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The Barrick Gold Corporation has conceded defeat in its attempt to take over NovaGold Resources, saying that only about 14.8 percent of NovaGold shares had been deposited in its $1.7 billion hostile bid. Barrick, the worldÂs biggest gold producer, raised its cash offer once, to $16 a share, and extended it six times. But NovaGold fought back, spurning the bid as being too low.
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Australian property group Investa agrees to be bought by US investment giant Morgan Stanley for $3.9bn.
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EuroZinc Mining Corp. has acquired for $22 million US the price participation rights granted to Rio Tinto on copper sales from the Neves-Corvo mine in Portugal.
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Sport: Russian steel magnate Alisher Usmanov purchases 14.58% stake in the club for Â£75m.
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NEW YORK - Goldcorp Inc. said Sunday it has agreed to buy its Canadian gold-mining competitor Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. for about $2 billion in stock.
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Chemical maker Basell said on Tuesday it would buy Lyondell Chemical Co.  for about $12.14 billion, giving it access to Lyondell's commodity assets and refining capacity.
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Chinese aluminium giant Chinalco said Friday it and US peer Alcoa have bought a 12-percent stake in Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto, setting up a possible takeover tussle with rival BHP Billiton.
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Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton say it has made an offer worth $147bn to buy rival Rio Tinto.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Dec. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gold Fields Limited (NYSE:GFI) announces that it has purchased, through its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary Orogen Holdings (BVI) Limited, 5,200,000 common shares of Comaplex Minerals Corp .
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PERTH (Dow Jones)--Another Australian mining company is destined for foreign ownership after Canada&#39;s LionOre Mining International Ltd.