(Corrects APRIL 25 Factbox to show Nippon Steel-U.S Steel is a proposed deal awaiting regulatory approval, bullet point 4)
(Reuters) -BHP Group has bid $38.8 billion for smaller rival Anglo American (JO:AGLJ), offering a deal to forge the world's biggest copper miner.
Here is a list of some previous big-ticket deals in the mining sector:
- Precious metals producer Polymetal International sold its Russian assets to Siberian gold miner Mangazeya Plus in March, for about $3.7 billion.
- Teck Resources (NYSE:TECK) agreed last year to sell its coal business to a consortium led by Swiss miner Glencore (OTC:GLNCY) for $9 billion. It expects the sale to close no later than the third quarter of 2024, its CEO said in February.
- The world's top gold producer Newmont bought Australia's Newcrest Mining (OTC:NCMGF) for $16.8 billion in late 2023.
- The world's fourth largest steelmaker Nippon Steel proposed to buy U.S. Steel late last year in a $14.1 billion deal which is awaiting regulatory approval and expected to close in the second or third quarter of this year.
- Whitehaven Coal last year bought mining giant BHP Group (NYSE:BHP)'s Blackwater and Daunia mines, part of the BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) metallurgical coal joint venture in Queensland, Australia, for $4.1 billion.
- In November 2022, Canada's Yamana Gold (BMV:AUYN) agreed to a $4.8 billion takeover bid from Agnico Eagle (NYSE:AEM) Mines Ltd and Pan American Silver (NYSE:PAAS) Corp.
- In December 2022, Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO) completed its more than $3 billion acquisition of Canada's Turquoise Hill Resources (NYSE:TRQ), buying the 49% stake it did not already own.
- In 2022, BHP bid $6.5 billion for copper and gold producer OZ Minerals. The deal was completed in May 2023.
- In 2018, Canada's Barrick Gold (NYSE:GOLD) Corp agreed to buy Randgold Resources (LON:RRS) Ltd in an all-stock deal valuing the Africa-focused miner at $6.5 billion at the time.
- In 2017, China's top coal miner Shenhua Group Corp Ltd took over China Guodian Group Corp to create a global powerhouse worth $280 billion.
- In 2013, Glencore completed the all-share $31 billion takeover of Anglo-Swiss mining company Xstrata.
- Rio Tinto acquired Canada's Alcan in July 2007 in a deal worth $38.1 billion, making it the world's largest producer of aluminium and bauxite at the time.
Source: Company Statements and Reports