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Augusta, Rosemont and copper king Ross Beaty

[WorldofMining]

Blogged about Beaty's 10% stake in Augusta Resource at WorldofMining.com. Interesting given that he owns 22% of Lumina Copper, which also has a huge copper poryphry project up for sale.

There are many interesting things about Hudbay’s takeover offer for the 84% of Augusta Resource that it doesn’t already own – an offer that has breathed a bit more life into a moribund mining M&A scene that is slowly reviving. Augusta is developing the advanced-stage Rosemont copper deposit southeast of Tucson, Arizona, which is projected to be the third largest copper mine in the U.S. once it’s operating.

Probably the most interesting thing is this:

Ross Beaty is Augusta’s second-largest shareholder

Vancouver resource entrepreneur Ross Beaty is the second-largest shareholder of Augusta, with more than 9% of outstanding shares. He owns 12,200,500 shares indirectly through his Kestrel Holdings company, and 1,235,000 shares directly, according to our friends at INK Research. That’s a total of 13,435,500 shares, or 9.3% of outstanding shares, as well as 5 million convertible notes. According to SEDI records, Beaty filed opening balances for most of the shares on Oct. 25, when Augusta was trading at about $2.15. He picked up 100,000 more shares on Nov. 21 at $1.26, according to a Nov. 22 filing.

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