The SSR deal & flurry of activity in the Can. gold sector SSR to buy fellow Canadian miner Alacer Gold in $2.4-billion all-stock deal
NIALL MCGEEMINING REPORTER
PUBLISHED MAY 11, 2020
SSR Mining Inc. is buying fellow Canadian gold intermediate producer Alacer Gold Corp. in an all-stock, zero premium deal worth $2.4-billion.
Vancouver-based SSR is paying 0.3246 of its shares for each Alacer or $8.19 a share, which is the price Alacer’s stock closed at on Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Rod Antal, Alacer’s chief executive officer, will run the combined entity. The new board will be equally split between directors from SSR and Alacer. The head office will be in Denver.
SSR operates mines in Canada, the United States and Argentina. Alacer’s chief asset is a gold mine in Turkey. The combined company is expected to produce around 780,00 ounces of gold.
For years, the buy side has been pleading with Canadian gold companies to consolidate, arguing that there are far too many small, illiquid companies, with large general and administrative expenses (G&A).
Some money managers such as Joe Foster with VanEck, have also been vocal proponents of zero premium, all-stock deals, as they provide no opportunity for arbitrage investors to influence the trading patterns for the stocks ahead of shareholder votes.
The acquisition of Toronto-based Alacer by SSR is subject to a shareholder vote from both sides.
The deal follows a flurry of activity in the Canadian gold sector that has seen at least three other gold deals announced in the past few months.
On Friday, China’s Shandong Gold Mining Co. Ltd. bought TMAC Resources Inc., which operates in the Arctic.
Guyana Goldfields Inc. was recently acquired by
Silvercorp Metals Inc. while
Semafo Inc. was bought by
Endeavour Mining Corp...
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When will the telephone ring at Richard O’Brien? Or was there something already on late Friday afternoon in Vancouver (see my after hours postings)? But may be the after hours event was "only" the execution of a poor PVG shorter.
In these times shorters have many reasons to become more than nervous. In the whole aquisition and merger monopoly game, do not forget the Chinese.
China is so much gold hungry while their huge USD nominated assets seem to become the greatest flop in financial history...
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source of the news (I guess everthing expressed there is in Can$):
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/article-ssr-to-buy-fellow-canadian-miner-alacer-gold-in-24-billion-all-stock/