Xstrata Makes a Bid for WMC Resources
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Swiss mining group Xstrata PLC Monday launched a hostile 7.4 billion Australian dollar (US$5.8 billion; euro4.4 billion) bid for uranium and copper miner WMC Resources LTD, increasing pressure on the independent Australian miner.
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Australian nickel and copper miner WMC Resources has turned down an offer from Swiss-based Xstrata that valued the company at Aust.
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Australian nickel miner WMC Resources will explore for nickel and copper in western China in a joint venture with China&#39;s Jinchuan Group, the companies said Friday.
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Brazilian mining giant Vale said  Monday it was in talks with Anglo-Swiss rival Xstrata about a  takeover, a deal that analysts said could top $100 billion in  one of the biggest mergers ever.
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WMC Resources Ltd., which is fighting a takeover bid from Xstrata Plc, will give as much as A$1 billion ($760 million) of cash to shareholders as the world&#39;s fifth-largest nickel producer forecast higher-than-expected profit.
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OLYMPIC DAM, South Australia (Dow Jones)--WMC Resources Ltd. (WMR.AU) is pinning its defense from aA$7.4 billion takeover bid by Xstrata PLC (XTA.
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Swiss firm Xstrata relaunches a takeover bid for Australian mining company WMC Resources by appealing directly to its shareholders.
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Shares of WMC Resources Ltd., the world&#39;s fifth-largest nickel metal producer, rose on optimism Xstrata Plc. will need to raise its A$7.4 billion ($5.8 billion) hostile bid and that other companies may submit higher offers.
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Anglo-Swiss miner Xstrata Plc  and Brazil's Vale  have been in serious talks over a 46 billion pound ($90.6 billion) takeover but the miners appear to have reached an impasse, the Financial Times said.
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MELBOURNE (Dow Jones)--BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP) remains in the hunt for WMC Resources Ltd. (WMC) with an internal team assessing its options for making a counter offer to Xstrata PLC&#39;s (XTA.
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Anglo-Swiss miner Xstrata Plc offered A$3.1 billion ($2.8 billion) on Monday for Australia's fifth-largest nickel producer Jubilee Mines NL, the latest outback miner to catch the eye of a big international firm as metal prices soar.
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Australian mining group WMC Resources Ltd has formally rejected a 7.4 billion dollar (5.73 billion US) takeover bid by Swiss-based Xstrata Plc, using an independent report to back its view the offer was neither fair or reasonable.
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THE Australian dollar was trading stronger today as news of a takeover bid for Australian mining company WMC Resources supported the currency during morning trading.
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XSTRATA, the diversified miner, will have to increase its A$7.4 billion (Â£3.1 billion) bid for WMC Resources if it is to succeed, analysts have said.
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Australian nickel and copper miner WMC Resources rejected aA$7,4bn takeover bid from Xstrata, but left the door open for a higher offer, which sent its shares soaring.
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Anglo-Swiss mining group Xstrata said on Friday that it now owned almost 95 percent of shares in takeover target Jubilee Mines and was expected to win full control in the coming days.
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The chief executive of WMC Resources has denied the company&#39;s share buyback and the sale of part of its business is designed to undermine a takeover offer from Swiss-based Xstrata.