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

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

An analysis of current and historical transactions involving advanced-stage base metals projects, operating mines, and companies.

  • Access valuable information for acquisitions negotiations and divestiture valuations
  • Gain insight into current and historical acquisitions environments
  • Support acquisitions activities with thoroughly researched information on significant worldwide base metals transactions
  • Quickly compare sets of comparable transactions
  • Discover potential acquisitions opportunities

OVERVIEW

Current Activity
Provides all relevant project and company transactions reported in the past year, with a synopsis of each transaction and in-depth profiles of the advanced-stage projects acquired. All data can be exported into Excel for further analysis, including key transaction and project information (as available), such as share premium, tonnage, grade, costs, and more.

Company and project reserves and resources are given as reported at the time of the acquisition, and analyzed for the price paid per pound or ounce of in-situ primary metals and primary equivalents.

Project and Company Transactions Databases
Complete, thoroughly researched databases of significant worldwide property and company acquisitions that allow quick comparisons and evaluations of all transactions since 1995. The databases are searchable by

  • Target
  • Seller
  • Buyer
  • Financial advisors
  • Date announced
  • Transaction price
  • Primary commodity
  • Location

Transaction Profiles
Each profile includes details of the transaction, including the price paid, the assets acquired, the price per pound or ounce of primary metal, analysis of projects with known resources, links to company press releases, and a summary of the transaction including background information. Link to in-depth project profiles drawn from MEG’s MineSearch database at the time of the acquisition, and to extensive company data from MEG's CompanySearch. MineSearch subscribers can also link to relevant current project profiles.

A Comparative Evaluations feature enables relevant and efficient comparison of any transaction with a range of other transactions, giving an instant picture of the prices being offered for in-situ resources at different stages of development in different regions.

Available comparisons include

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

Project Profiles
Each company and project transaction profile includes one or more MineSearch project profiles captured at the time of the transaction. Project information is gathered from company news releases, annual reports, media coverage, government reports, and from direct interviews with mining companies, consultants, and government officials. Each profile includes (as available)

  • General information
  • Stage of development and activity status
  • Owners and former owners
  • Location and description of claims
  • Reserves and resources
  • General comments
  • Work history
  • Production (general and yearly)
  • Operating costs
  • Capital costs
  • Transactions
  • Geology
  • Environmental comments
  • Subcontractors
  • Company contact
  • Bibliography

Press Releases
View current and historical base metals transaction-related press releases, including releases for companies traded on Australian, Canadian, South African, U.S., and London stock exchanges. Press releases can be viewed by date or company.

Text Search
Search the project and company transaction profile comments for the text strings as entered.

CompanySearch
CompanySearch is a companion database of 5,000 worldwide mining companies that broadens the view of the landscape. CompanySearch helps identify potential partners, acquisitions, and joint venture opportunities based on location, commodity, stock and share information, and criteria related to directly held late-stage projects.

Each company profile includes

  • 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 Sedar, Edgar, stock exchanges, and other financial information
  • Advanced-stage project summary tables from MineSearch with links to full project profiles
  • Link to each company’s exploration budget profile in MEG's Corporate Exploration Strategies annual study

HOW TO SUBSCRIBE

For more information and to subscribe to the Base Metals Acquisitions Service, phone +1 902-429-2880 or .

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