RANKED: Top 10 mining property deals in the last five years

MINING.com Editor | October 2, 2020 | 10:00 am

Large scale property acquisitions peaked in 2016–2017 led by China Molybdenum’s purchase of the Tenke Fungurume mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

China Molybdenum bought Freeport-McMoRan’s 56% stake in the copper-cobalt mine in November 2016 and picked up Lundin Mining’s 24% interest in April 2017 for a total consideration of $3.8 billion, based on data from Miningintelligence.