Finance & business

Avocet Mining Plc defers the sale of Resolute Ltd to the Balaji Group by five days to 30 January 2018.

Barrick Gold Corp. enters a subscription agreement with Royal Road Minerals Ltd to acquire 9 875 876 ordinary shares of Royal Road Minerals Ltd.

Tiger Resources Ltd enters into a SPA with Sinomine Resource Exploration Co. which will enable Sinomine to obtain 100% of Tiger’s shares in its subsidiaries and interests in exchange for cash payment.

Blind Creek Resources is to progress with its planned gold mines spin-out transaction with Engineer Gold Mines Ltd.

Battery Minerals signs an offtake agreement with Qingdao Black Dragon Graphite Co that will secure the trade of graphite concentrate from Battery’s Mozambique project for an initial term of three years.

Condor Gold appoints a new Non-Executive Director to the company’s Board, with immediate effect.

Avanco to acquire 100% of the Pantera copper project in Brazil from Vale S.A.

Armadale has sold its interest in the Mpokoto gold project in the Democratic Republic of Congo to Weghsteen Capital Advice.

Trek has acquired the Kroussou zinc-lead project in Gabon from Battery Minerals.

First Majestic Silver Corp. and Primero Mining Corp. enter an agreement which will see First Majestic acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Primero.

Mustang Resources appoints a new Managing Director and selects a Chief Operating Officer.

B2Gold Corp. reports its gold production and gold revenue for the fourth quarter and full year of 2017.

Avocet agrees to defer the completion of the sale of Resolute (West Africa) Ltd to the Balaji Group to the end of January.

Rio Tinto receives binding offer of US$500 million from Liberty House for the Aluminium Dunkerque smelter.

Atlas Copco buys Australia-based Hy-Performance Fluid Power in a deal expected to be completed in 1Q18.