Market Place: Aluminum: Quarry for Mining Companies
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Rio Tintoâs recent offer of $38.1 billion for Alcan may be a sign that aluminum is no longer an estranged cousin in the mining industry.
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Underperforming U.S. aluminum giant  Alcoa  is ripe for takeover, and analysts see Australian  resource companies BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto as likely  predators.
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PERTH (Dow Jones)--Another Australian mining company is destined for foreign ownership after Canada&#39;s LionOre Mining International Ltd.
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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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Noranda Inc., Canada&#39;s biggest mining company, began exclusive talks on a takeover proposal from China Minmetals Corp. that would lead to the spinoff of Noranda&#39;s aluminum business to shareholders.
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LONDON/BEIJING  - China has muscled in on miner BHP Billiton's  attempts to buy rival Rio Tinto , with its biggest aluminum producer teaming up with U.S. group Alcoa  to buy a 12 percent stake in Rio.
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Chinese mining group Chinalco said on  Friday it had teamed up with U.S. aluminum producer Alcoa   to buy a 12 percent in Rio Tinto .
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By Rocky Barker, The Idaho Statesman, Boise Feb. 11--Atlanta Gold Corp. has struggled to treat arsenic-laced water leaking from an old mine near Atlanta, where it hopes it may someday mine. It's a problem across the American West.
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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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BHP Billiton Ltd/Plc  , the world's biggest miner, is in talks with private equity firms to team up for a possible $40 billion bid for U.S. aluminum company Alcoa Inc , the Times said on Tuesday.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- BHP Billiton, the world&#39;s biggest miner, more than doubled second-half profit as Chinese demand boosted commodity prices. The company is considering returning as much as $2 billion to investors, including share buybacks.
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A Canadian company wants to begin extracting gold and silver from a mountain in Cerro de San Pedro.
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Alcoa Inc. is being targeted by two foreign mining giants who are each preparing $40 billion takeover bids for the aluminum producer, a British newspaper reported. Alcoa shares rose $2.10, or 6.4 percent, to $35, yesterday although some analysts questioned whether such a deal was likely.
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Chinese mining group Chinalco said on Friday it had teamed up with U.S. aluminum producer Alcoa  to buy a 12 percent in Rio Tinto .
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By Daniel Kelley, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Jun. 15--MARISSA -- A Peabody Energy proposal to reopen a surface mine and use adjacent land as a burnt coal landfill outside Marissa has drawn concern from nearby residents and praise from the business community.
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So long, hydrocarbons; hello, aluminum.
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BHP Billiton today announced the approval of the $US990 million Spence Copper Project in northern Chile. The project will have a designed capacity to produce 200,000 tonnes of copper cathode per annum and will have a mine life of 19 years.