The structure of the gold industry has changed with the announcement of a second blockbuster merger in January.
The first was the Barrick Gold Corporation-Randgold Resources combination announced last September. Not to be outdone by Barrick, Newmont announced plans to acquire fellow senior producer Goldcorp in an all-stock deal valued at $10 billion to create the world’s largest gold company.
Like Barrick, Newmont intends to sell non-core mines to focus on a smaller portfolio of larger, higher quality properties. However, the new Newmont will have 21 mines (Barrick has 13), so integrating Newmont with Goldcorp will be a challenge.
That said, Newmont is acquiring an excellent suite of assets at a discount and Goldcorp shareholders will get the quality management they have long been waiting for.
Gold Spot Rate vs. Newmont Mining vs. Barrick Gold vs. Goldcorp
Source: Bloomberg.
About the Author:
Joe Foster has been Portfolio Manager for the VanEck International Investors Gold Fund since 1998 and the VanEck – Global Gold UCITS Fund since 2012. Mr. Foster, an acknowledged authority on gold, has over 10 years of dedicated experience in geology and mining including as a gold geologist in Nevada. He has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and on Reuters, CNBC and Bloomberg TV. Mr. Foster has also published articles in a number of mining journals, including Mining Engineering and Geological Society of Nevada.
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