World&#39;s biggest gold firm - South African gold producer:
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[Business India]: 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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South African gold producer Harmony, with backing from Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel, is poised to make a surprise takeover bid today for Gold Fields, the world&#39;s fourth biggest producer, the Financial Times has reported.
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The price of platinum soared on Thursday past 2,000 dollars an ounce to a record as power shortages affected mining production in South Africa, the biggest supplier of the white precious metal, traders said.
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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 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.
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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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Like the big oil companies, the world&#39;s mining majors are experiencing an embarrassment of riches due to very high commodity prices. BHP Billiton is in the happiest position: it is both the world&#39;s biggest miner and has a substantial oil production ...
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South Africa&#39;s Harmony Gold looking to create the world&#39;s biggest gold producer after it pounced on bigger domestic rival Gold Fields with an all-share takeover bid worth about $A11.
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BHP Billiton, the world's largest miner has posted a record annual net profit of 10.45 billion US dollars and delivered an upbeat outlook amid unprecedented global demand for commodities.
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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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NEW YORK, December 23  - The worldâs largest gold producer Newmont Mining (NEM.NYS) admitted yesterday that it had released 17 tons of waste mercury into the air, and another 16 tons into the water over a period of five years from its
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The world's largest gold producer,  Newmont Mining Corp. NEM.N, on Wednesday said higher gold  prices drove up quarterly profit by 12.5 percent, even though  it sold less of the precious metal.
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South African mining giant Gold Fields on Friday said it has filed a complaint in a New York court against rival Harmony to try and stop it from continuing with a hostile takeover to create the world&#39;s largest gold producer.
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Harmony Gold Mining, the largest miner of South African gold, made a hostile bid yesterday to acquire Gold Fields Ltd., another South African miner, for 52.
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South Africa's biggest gold and platinum mining firms suspend production because of recent power cuts.
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A takeover bid which would create the world's biggest gold company, with assets of $10bn, is reportedly being considered in South Africa.
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PERTH (Dow Jones)--Another Australian mining company is destined for foreign ownership after Canada&#39;s LionOre Mining International Ltd.