Major mining companies Newmont and Glencore have each tweaked their multibillion-dollar bids to buy out rival companies.
Newmont Corp.
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said its offer for Australia-based Newcrest Mining Ltd.
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would strengthen its position as the world’s top gold company and would also boost its copper production.
Newcrest Mining shareholders are being offered 0.4 Newmont shares, and Newmont is supporting a special dividend of $1.10 per share to be paid around the deal’s closure, in a deal that that Newcrest says is worth 32.87 Australian dollars per share, or a total of A$29.4 billion (equivalent to $19.6 billion).
Newmont has made two previous indicative proposals for Newcrest, but Newcrest has now agreed to give Newmont confirmatory due diligence, which Newmont expects to complete within four weeks.
Glencore PLC
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meanwhile, tweaked its previous bid for Canada-based Teck Resources Ltd.
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The new offer would combine both companies’ metals businesses while spinning off each company’s coal business.
The new offer would give Teck investors 24% of the combined metals company and $8.2 billion in cash. Glencore says the deal would give those investors the option of a full exit from the coal business without having to own Glencore’s thermal coal operations.
Teck had previously said “there is no market for shares of a massive new thermal coal-focused company.”
Teck has been resisting Glencore’s overtures and instead is recommending a plan to separate its base metals and steelmaking coal businesses.
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