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April 2011
Barrick Gold has made a C$7.3 billion ($7.6 billion) agreed takeover offer for the copper miner Equinox Minerals
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Geovic Mining/Geovic Cameroon has finished the feasibility study for its $617 million Nkamouna Cobalt-Nickel-Manganese project in Cameroon and is out to market for project debt via its financial advisers Standard Chartered and Canacord.
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Australian-listed Global Nickel Investments has closed an A$22.5 million ($23.7 million) exploration loan for its Jutson Rocks Greenstone Belt reserve with Zulu Capital and Zulu-managed funds.
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Rusal is in discussions with Sberbank, VEB and other Russian lenders for around $1.2 billion of 14 year project debt to restart construction of a new $1.7 billion 750,000 tpa aluminium smelter at Taishet.
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Indonesian state mining company Aneka Tambang and Showa Denko have approached the Japan Bank for International Cooperation and Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation for financing for the Tayan alumina plant,
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China Development Bank has agreed to finance $500 million of project costs for Moly Mines' Spinifex Ridge molybdenum mine
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Lynas gets Sojitz debt and equity for Mount Weld rare earths
Australian-listed rare earths developer Lynas Corporation has signed a $250 million debt and equity financing with Japanese trading house Sojitz. The signing follows a commitment from Sojitz in November 2010, with the So...
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Canadian-listed bauxite mine developer First Bauxite has named Rothschild financial adviser on its Bonasika refractory bauxite project
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Thompson Creek Metals has closed a $132 million in equipment financing with Cat Financial Services for its Mt. Milligan copper-gold mining project
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Hindalco Industries has closed on Rs78.75 billion ($1.74 billion) in debt for the Mahan greenfield aluminium smelter