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Lumina Gold advances Cangrejos, Gran Bestia ECUADOR
| Ross Beatybacked junior hopes to connect gold-copper deposits BY TRISH SAYWELL tsaywell@northernminer.com
Atlantic Gold’s Touquoy gold mine, part of its Moose River Consolidated gold project in Nova Scotia. ATLANTIC GOLD
St Barbara to acquire Atlantic Gold for $802M M&A
BY TRISH SAYWELL tsaywell@northernminer.com
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ustralian gold producer St Barbara (ASX: SBM) is acquiring 100% of Canadian gold producer Atlantic Gold
| Friendly deal offers shareholders a hefty premium (TSXV: AGB) in a deal valued at $802 million. St Barbara’s offer represents a 41.1% premium to Atlantic’s closing share price on May 14 and a 40.8% premium to the company’s 30-day, volume-weighted average
price. The offer consists of $2.90 per share in cash plus a spin-out company that will hold Atlantic’s interest in Velocity Minerals (TSXV: VLC), valued at 5¢ per share, for a total consideration of $2.95 per
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share. Velocity is advancing its Rozino gold project in Bulgaria. The $2.90 per share cash consideration implies a $722-million total equity value for Atlantic and $802-million enterprise value. In a brief conference call, Atlantic’s chairman and CEO Steven Dean said the deal is a “great transaction for all Atlantic shareholders,” and particularly so for those who had been with the company from the start, for whom it “represented a very substantial return to their initial investment.” “I understand that the questions are short because it’s not too difficult to explain $2.90 in cash,” he said, when only a few queries were posed during the question-and-answer session of the call. “Cash is cash, and that’s a relatively rare thing in our mining space these days, and we’re very proud to have been able to deliver that to shareholders.” The deal is another sign of what appears to be a growing appetite in Australia for North American assets. In March, Newcrest Mining (ASX: NCM) acquired a 70% stake in Imperial Metals’ (TSX: III) Red Chris copper-gold mine in northwestern British Columbia. Atlantic put the first phase of its Moose River Consolidated (MRC)
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umina Gold (TSXV: LUM) is on track to complete a first-ever resource estimate on its Gran Bestia gold-copper deposit and an updated resource on its Cangrejos gold-copper deposit before year-end. The two deposits in Ecuador are a kilometre apart and 40 km from the deepwater commercial port of Bolivar. The junior, in which geologist and serial mine finder Ross Beaty owns a 17.2% stake, has already defined an inferred resource at Cangrejos, with 8.5 million oz. gold and 1 billion contained lb. copper within 408 See LUMINA GOLD / 2 PM40069240
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