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Detour Gold Corp
Symbol DGC
Shares Issued 177,728,711
Close 2020-01-29 C$ 24.01
Market Cap C$ 4,267,266,351
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Globe says Kirkland Lake's Detour takeover approved

2020-01-29 08:09 ET - In the News

See In the News (C-KL) Kirkland Lake Gold Ltd

The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday, Jan. 29, edition that Detour Gold and Kirkland Lake Gold shareholders voted decisively in favour of Kirkland's $4.9-billion acquisition of Detour on Tuesday. The Globe's Niall McGee writes that the deal sees the world's most profitable large gold mining company buy a struggling single-asset producer smack in the middle of a turnaround. The all-stock acquisition was announced in November and was initially greeted with shock on the part of many of Kirkland Lake's shareholders, with its stock plummeting by 17 per cent on the day the deal was announced. Some big stakeholders, such as Eric Sprott, were not immediately convinced of the logic of Kirkland, a low-cost, high-grade miner, buying Detour, a high-cost, low-grade operator. A big part of the reason Kirkland's shareholders ultimately warmed up to the deal is that while the company will see its average cost to mine an ounce of gold rise after it integrates Detour, its reserves of gold in the ground will go up materially. On Tuesday, Kirkland boss Tony Makuch said he was sorry for the lacklustre reception the deal had received from the market, and vowed the transaction will turn out to be a winner over the long term.

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