Deals/IPOs/M&A

SSR Mining and Alacer Gold merging; Adriatic Metals to acquire Tethyan Resource; and, Gold X & Gran Colombia trying to merge with Guyana Goldfields thwarting Silvercorp’s plan to merge with Guyana Goldfields [more]

Wheaton Precious Metals announced a $300M ATM program, Silvercrest raised a combined $128M with participation from SSR Mining, Osisko Gold Royalties completed an $85 million investment from Investissement Québec,… [more]

A summary of Barrick COO Catherine Raw’s “Mineral Outlook Luncheon” presentation at PDAC where she discusses the recent wave of M&A deals in the mining sector and why she believes they will continue. [more]

At current pace of operation & CAPEX spending, Aurora and Curaleaf have less than two quarters of runway left while iAnthus defaults on debt payment and MedMen needs $250M to execute turnaround plan. [more]

The transaction values SEMAFO at $3/share and, on an EV/oz basis, at C$155/oz, creating the largest gold producer in West Africa, with six operating mines, and combined gold production of over 1 million ounces expected in 2020. [more]

Lending Club become first FinTech to acquire a bank; Morgan Stanley acquires E*Trade; Intuit acquires Credit Karma; Green Dot gets activist shareholder pressure. [more]

DraftKings has been vertically integrating its business and SBTech will further support DraftKings through backend technology capabilities for digital betting. [more]

Transaction would create a gold producing company, with forecasted production of 700K ounces of gold in 2020 and 1M ounces in 2021. [more]