Royal Gold to Acquire Battle Mountain Gold Exploration
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RENO, Nev., March 6, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Battle Mountain Gold Exploration Corp. (OTCBB:BMGX) (&quot;Battle Mountain&quot;) and Royal Gold, Inc.
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LONDON (Dow Jones)--Mining group Rio Tinto Ltd. (RTP) is considering trumping a GBP2.9 billion bid by rival Xstrata PLC (XTA.LN) for Australian nickel miner WMC Resources Ltd.
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South Africa&#39;s largest domestic gold producer is poised to make a surprise takeover bid for Gold Fields. With the backing from Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel, Harmony will
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Gold miner Harmony has announced that it will use its shares in rival miner Gold Fields to vote against the proposed IAMGold transaction at the Gold Fields general meeting on December 7. Harmony has an 11.8
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A major re-ordering of South Africa&#39;s gold mining industry is expected to get under way today with Gold Fields of South Africa poised to announce a multi-billion dollar merger with one of its big Johannesburg-based rivals, most likely Harmony Gold.
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Teck Cominco (TCKb.TO) said on Tuesday  it would buy Aur Resources  in a friendly cash and  stock offer worth C$4.1 billion ($3.87 billion), boosting the  base metal giant&#39;s copper production.
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Goldcorp Inc. Chief Executive Robert McEwen says he was always reluctant to expand by acquiring other gold producers. That&#39;s why McEwen is making one last purchase before he steps down and handing the reins to Ian Telfer.
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TORONTO -- One of Canada&#39;s largest and best-known miners, Noranda Inc., is in exclusive talks to be acquired by a Chinese metals producer, the two companies confirmed Friday.
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RENO-- Glamis Gold President and CEO Kevin McArthur said he is very happy that Toronto-based Goldcorp has agreed to let its shareholders decide whether to proceed with a proposed friendly merger with Wheaton River, or to consider a hostile
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Business News, Johannesberg: South African gold producer Harmony has bid to take over larger rival Gold Fields, a merger that would create the world&#39;s biggest gold producer.
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Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd. said Monday it had acquired 10.8 percent of Gold Fields Ltd.&#39;s shares through the first phase of its hostile US$6.6 billion (euro4.9 billion) takeover bid.
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Canadian gold producers Goldcorp and Wheaton River Minerals are set to create a company with more than 1.1 million ounces of gold production a year.
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WMC currently is fending off a AU$7.4 billion takeover bid by Switzerland-based Xstrata PLC. The mining company upgraded its earnings forecast to around $1.3 billion for the calendar year, above analysts&#39; expectations.
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The Motley Fool - Here's something you don't see every day -- the continuing brouhaha between Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL - News) and PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT - News) being a notable exception. South Africa's Harmony Gold Mining Company (NYSE: HMY - News) has announced a hostile takeover bid to acquire fellow South African miner Gold Fields Limited (NYSE: GFI - News). The transaction, if it takes place, would be an all-stock acquisition, with Harmony issuing 1.275 new shares in payment for each share of Gold Fields. The deal would value Gold Fields at more than &#36;8 billion. ...
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Goldcorp Inc., Canada&#39;s fourth-largest gold producer, has agreed to buy Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. for $1.8 billion in stock, giving Goldcorp its first assets outside of North America, Chief Executive Robert R. McEwen said.
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Oklahoma city-based Chesapeake has agreed to purchase Tulsa-based BRG Petroleum Corporation for 325 (m) million dollars in cash. Chesapeake, already the top producer of Oklahoma oil and gas, would add to its
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Noranda, Canada's largest mining company, said on Friday that it may be acquired by the China Minmetals Corporation in a deal worth more than $4.7 billion.