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B2Gold hunting for more assets after Sabina Gold deal

B2Gold's acquisition of Sabina Gold gives it access to teh untapped Back River gold district in Nunavut.

B2Gold's acquisition of Sabina Gold gives it access to teh untapped Back River gold district in Nunavut.

17th July 2023

By: Reuters

  

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NAIROBI - B2Gold said it would consider further opportunities to acquire gold assets to accelerate growth even after its recent purchase of Sabina Gold, which gave it its first project in home country Canada.

B2Gold's C$1.1-billion acquisition of Sabina Gold, completed in April, included Sabina's untapped mineral-heavy Back River Gold district in Nunavut, Canada, which is expected to start production in 2025.

The CEO of the Vancouver-based producer, which currently mines gold in Mali, Namibia and the Philippines, said the company was looking now at assets that are already producing, rather than those in development.

Clive Johnson said it would consider potential opportunities from assets that are being spun off when big producers consolidate.

"We're definitely still looking for other opportunities, and as you know there's a lot of big companies that are merging with each other right now," Johnson told Reuters.

"We're not looking at adding more development projects, but looking at mines that are in production that don't fit the criteria for some of these majors."

He said the company had a healthy cash position that could enable it to also consider opportunities such as combining with a smaller producer, the CEO said.

"There's smaller companies that could have some production but maybe see it would be sensible to merge with somebody larger," he added.

The CEO declined to say if the company is negotiating for any deals currently, and said there were no timelines currently in place for making new acquisitions.

The producer is also expanding output at its Fekola mine in Mali, its biggest asset so far, and is searching for gold in Finland, Uzbekistan, Japan and other parts of Africa including Ivory Coast, Johnson said.

Edited by Reuters

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