The competitive edge in global base metals acquisitions (including platinum group metals and silver).

The Base Metals Acquisitions Service gives Metals Economics Group clients a competitive edge by reporting and analyzing all current and historical transactions in advanced-stage base metals (including platinum group metals and silver) projects, operating mines, and companies.

BENEFITS TO YOU AND YOUR COMPANY

  • Valuable information for acquisitions negotiations and divestiture valuations
  • Insight into current and historical acquisitions environments
  • Thoroughly researched information on all significant worldwide base metals transactions
  • Downloadable data for comparing similar historical transactions
  • A guide to potential acquisitions opportunities
  • Quick and reliable sets of comparable transactions at your fingertips

SECTIONS OF THE BASE METALS ACQUISITIONS SERVICE

Current Activity
Current Activity is a table of all relevant project and company transactions reported in the last year, with a synopsis of each transaction and in-depth profiles of the projects acquired. The Current Activity table can be sorted, expanded to include summary comments, and printed out. All the numeric data, including key transaction and project information (as available), such as tonnage, grade, costs, etc, can be downloaded into Excel for further analysis. Where possible, projects with known reserves and grades are analyzed for the price paid per pound or ounce of in-situ metals (the reserves and grades are given as they were reported at the time of acquisition).

Project and Company Transactions Databases
The project and company transactions databases are complete, thoroughly researched databases of significant worldwide property and company acquisitions that allow you to quickly and confidently compare and evaluate all transactions since 1995, a full market cycle. The databases are searchable by

  • Target
  • Seller
  • Buyer
  • Advisors
  • Date announced
  • Transaction price
  • Primary commodity
  • Location

The Search results are reported in a table that can be sorted by any column, expanded to include summary comments, and printed in a report. The key numeric information for the projects in the list can be downloaded to an Excel spreadsheet for further analysis and comparison. Clicking on a transaction Target name takes you to the full Transaction Profile (described in detail on the next page).

Transaction Profiles
Each profile includes an at-a-glance encapsulation of the transaction, including the price paid and the assets acquired, a price per pound or ounce of primary metal analysis of projects with known resources, and a summary of the transaction details with background information. There is a link to in-depth project profiles from Metals Economics Group’s MineSearch database at the time of the acquisition, as well as links to current project profiles for MineSearch subscribers, and links to extensive company data and reports from Metals Economics Group’s CompanySearch.

The Comparative Evaluations feature in each profile allows you to quickly and easily compare any transaction to other transactions in the last four years, giving you an instant picture of the prices being offered for in-situ resources at different stages of development in different regions. Five quick comparative searches are available within the transaction profiles:

  • Transactions by price paid as a percentage of in-situ value
  • Transactions by price paid per unit (oz or lb) of primary metal equivalent acquired
  • Purchases by acquisition price
  • Transactions by region
  • Primary metal transactions by development stage

Project Profiles
MineSearch Project Profiles include the most up-to-date information on projects involved in recent acquisitions, an important record of what was known of the project at the time of acquisition. The information is gathered from company news releases, annual reports, media coverage, and government reports, as well as from direct interviews with project managers, consultants, and government officials. Each profile includes the following information, as available:

  • Ownership
  • Status
  • Location
  • General comments
  • Work history
  • Exploration costs
  • Capital costs
  • Production costs
  • Mining and processing methods
  • Production and recovery rates
  • Yearly production capacity
  • Reserves
  • Amount of contained metals
  • Transactions
  • Geology
  • Environmental comments
  • and more

CompanySearch
CompanySearch allows you to search for all public and private mining companies in our database by

  • Company name (or aka)
  • Headquarters
  • Stock exchange and symbol
  • Market capitalization, share price, and shares outstanding (updated monthly)

CompanySearch results lists can be sorted on-screen or downloaded into Excel for further analysis.

Company profiles include

  • Contact information
  • Capitalization history
  • Parent and subsidiary companies
  • All company news releases (updated daily), including those issued by JV partners and others
  • Direct links to corporate information on Edgar, Sedar, stock exchanges, and Yahoo!
  • Advanced-stage project summary tables from MineSearch with links to full project profiles
  • A link to each company’s exploration budget profile in our Corporate Exploration Strategies study

News
The News provides all the press releases worldwide for the last year on base metals transactions, transaction-related activity, and on other relevant current events in the base metals acquisitions marketplace. (In contrast, Current Activity reports on actual transactions, which are appraised in depth by MEG’s research analysts.) The News includes press releases for all companies traded on the Australian, Canadian, South African, U.S., and London exchanges, and can be sorted either by date or company.

Text Search
The Text Search feature searches both the project and company transactions databases for the exact text string entered. Simply enter the text string you want to search for and click "Go."

BASE METALS ACQUISITIONS SERVICE DEMONSTRATION
View an online demonstration

January 2007

 
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