Goldcorp and Wheaton River gold producers strike friendly merger ...
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TORONTO (CP) - Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. - after failing to complete a friendly merger and then avoiding a hostile takeover so far this year - spent Monday promoting the virtues of an agreed merger with Goldcorp Inc.
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JOHANNESBURG : South Africa&#39;s Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd. said it would bid for control of Gold Fields Ltd, valuing it at 8.1 billion dollars (6.
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Teck Cominco, a mining company and metals producer, has agreed to buy Aur Resources for 4.1 billion Canadian dollars ($3.9 billion) in cash and stock.
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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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Harmony Gold Mining Company yesterday bought a 10.8% stake in Gold Fields in the first phase of its $6.6bn (Â£3.5bn) takeover bid.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gold Fields (NYSE:GFI)has announced that it has reached agreement with IAMGold (TSX: IMG; Amex: IAG) (&quot;IAMGold&quot;) to revise the terms of the proposed
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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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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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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Shareholders of Harmony Gold Mining Co. on Friday overwhelmingly approved issuing new shares to fund the company&#39;s hostile takeover bid for Gold Fields Ltd.
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Coeur d&#39;Alene Mines Corp. said Monday that it formally opened an offer to buy all outstanding common shares of fellow precious-metal miner Wheaton River Minerals Ltd.
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Canadian mining company Goldcorp Inc.   plans to buy competitor Wheaton River Minerals Ltd   for &#36;2.09 billion in stock, marking further consolidation in the mining industry, the companies said Sunday in a statement.
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Gold miner Gold Fields has bought a 14.4 percent stake in Canadian miner Comaplex Minerals, it announced on Thursday. The group said it had purchased 5.2 million common shares in the Toronto-listed miner through
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Mining giant Gold Fields will know after a crucial shareholder vote on Tuesday if it has succeeded in ending a cheeky hostile takeover bid by its rival Harmony to create the world&#39;s largest gold producer.
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Canadian mining company Goldcorp Inc. (G.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) (GG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) plans to buy competitor Wheaton River Minerals Ltd (WRM.
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Harmony Gold, South African gold mining group, said it made a bid over its bigger rival Gold Fields to form the biggest gold producer over the globe.
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TORONTO - Goldcorp is allowing its shareholders to vote on a proposed merger with Wheaton River Minerals. Goldcorp&#39;s board of directors decided to schedule a shareholder vote on the merger after a hostile takeover bid emerged from Glamis Gold.
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JOHANNESBURG  - Gold mining giant Gold Fields failed to block a hostile takover bid by rival Harmony after the majority of Gold Fields shareholders voted against a proposed merger with Canada-based IAMGOLD.