Recent Mining Deals Score Big as M&A and Pre-Production Raise Required Cash
With higher commodity prices, mining deals and M&A remained strong this summer with some of the larger deals earmarked to get companies closer to production. [more]
With higher commodity prices, mining deals and M&A remained strong this summer with some of the larger deals earmarked to get companies closer to production. [more]
Renforth continues to release drill results from its current 15,569m drill program aimed at growing its NI 43-101 project resource of 281,800 gold ounces at 1.77 g/t. The drill program is focused on infill drilling, extending the resource at depth, and twinning some previous drilling from 1986 to 1993 in order to incorporate those results into a new resource estimate, which will be completed upon receipt of all the assays, presently 16 holes remain outstanding. [more]
Equinox Gold and Premier Gold announced that Equinox Gold will acquire Premier Gold and concurrently, Premier Gold will spin-out its Nevada-based assets into a new company to be called i-80 Gold Corp. Transaction values assets at ~US$160 per reserve ounce and ~US$50 per resource ounce. [more]
London-based Endeavour Mining plans to buy Teranga Gold in an all-stock deal worth about $2.44B. With 12.8M ounces of gold resources, the transaction values Teranga at over US$191 per resource ounce. Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris injects $200M million into the deal. [more]
The consideration to be paid by Yamana consists of approximately C$60.8M in cash, C$91.2M in Yamana shares, and a newly-formed spin-out company valued at C$47.5M. With over 3 million ounces of gold resources, the transaction values Monarch at over US$43 per resource ounce or over US$86 per reserve ounce. [more]
The new funds will be used for the continued optimization and de-risking, and allows for the expansion of exploration programs. Existing 1M oz Au resource and PEA on the Hammerdown & Orion projects. [more]
The well-funded silver explorer now has C$75M in cash and an M&I resource of 1B oz of Silver equivalent at Cordero. The proceeds will be used primarily to fund continuing exploration program at its Cordero and Coahuila projects in Mexico. [more]
Spin out of Equinox Gold and part of the Augusta Group has $25 million in the bank. Solaris is advancing a portfolio of copper, gold, silver and molybdenum projects in Central and South America, with its primary focus on the Warintza copper-molybdenum-gold property in Ecuador. [more]
Drill program planned at the Sir Harry Oakes Project in the Matachewan Gold District of Ontario and expenditures at the joint-venture Bruell Gold Project, east of Val D’Or, Quebec, operated by Eldorado Gold [more]
Top deals closing this month included Osisko Mining receiving $177M and Lundin Gold closing C$57.5 million, both from bought-deal financings. Artemis Gold expects to raise $175 million from a bought-deal agreement with a syndicate of underwriters as well as a non-brokered offering. [more]
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