AuRico Gold

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AuRico Gold Inc.
Type Public
TSX: AUQ
NYSE: AUQ
Industry Mining Exploration
Founded1986
Defunct2015 (2015)
FateMerged with Alamos Gold
Headquarters
Halifax, NS
,
Canada
Key people
Scott Perry (President & CEO)
Products Gold Silver
Website www.auricogold.com

AuRico Gold was an intermediate gold mining and exploration company that, until August 2011, operated only in Mexico. It reached intermediate gold producer status in August 2011 when Northgate Minerals agreed to be taken over for C$1.46 billion. [1] Gammon Gold was an exploration company until 2004 when it started producing for the first time. Assets also include silver and copper.

Contents

Aurico Gold merged with Alamos Gold in 2015. [2]

History

The company began as Golden Rock Explorations, Inc. on February 23, 1986 (date of incorporation). In 1998, it was renamed Gammon Lake Resources, Inc. Over the next 13 years, it changed names twice more, first to Gammon Gold Inc on June 18, 2007, and to AuRico Gold in May 2011. [3] [4]

On August 9, 2006, AuRico finalized the $451 million takeover of Mexgold Resources Inc., which owned the Guadalupe y Calvo gold and silver project in Mexico. [5]

In April 2011, the company acquired Capital Gold for $408 million after 67% of Capital Gold's shareholders voted in favor of the deal. Assets included El Chanate and the Orion gold project in Mexico. [6]

On May 16, 2011, it changed its name to AuRico Gold, a combination of Au ('gold') and Rico (meaning "rich" in Spanish). [4]

On August 29, 2011, it acquired the Vancouver-based Northgate Minerals in a C$1.46 billion deal (US$1.49 billion). The new company (62% owned by AuRico shareholders with the other 38% residing with Northgate's shareholders) has 83% more gold resources than AuRico had beforehand. [7] Including the takeover of Capital Gold, AuRico increased its gold reserves by about 70% in less than five months.

In 2015, AuRico Gold merged with Alamos Gold in a C$1.5 billion deal. [2] Shareholders of AuRico Gold owned about 50% of the new company, which was still called Alamos Gold. As part of the deal, AuRico's Kemess project was spun off into a new company, AuRico Metals, which was acquired by Centerra Gold in 2017 for $310 million. [8]

Properties

There were two operations in Mexico and one operation in Canada in addition to several advanced development properties in Mexico and British Columbia. [9]

Operations

In 2002, the company announced a strategic alliance with Bolnisi Gold NL, to take its Ocampo Project in Mexico into production. [13]

Exploration projects

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References

  1. ↑ Bouw, Brenda (August 29, 2011). "AuRico scoops up Northgate Minerals". The Globe and Mail. Toronto.
  2. 1 2 "Alamos Gold, AuRico Gold merging in $1.5B deal". CNBC. April 13, 2015. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Name Change Gammon Lake Resources Inc" (PDF). June 18, 2007.
  4. 1 2 "Gammon Gold to become Aurico Gold". May 16, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Gammon Lake Resources and Mexgold Resources complete $1.6 billion business combination". 2006. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved August 31, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Kirkland & Ellis LLP". Archived from the original on September 29, 2011. Retrieved August 31, 2011.
  7. ↑ "AuRico acquires Northgate". The Chronicle Herald. August 30, 2011.
  8. ↑ "Centerra Gold to buy AuRico Metals in C$310 million deal". Reuters. November 7, 2017. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Map of operations". AuRico. Archived from the original on April 1, 2013.
  10. ↑ "Northgate Minerals starts $375 million Young-Davidson project". Northern Ontario Business. March 24, 2012.
  11. ↑ "AuRico Gold Reports Second Quarter". Market Watch. August 11, 2011.
  12. ↑ Gómez Lima, C. (May 3, 2016). "Derrama minera 400 mil litros de solución de cianuro en Sonora: Trabajadores señalan que la compañía no reparó un dictó a pesar de que le informaron: Ejecutivos esperaron casi dos días para reportar el accidente a Profepa y ordenaron arrojar tierra sobre la zona contaminada, afirman. En una semana la dependencia decidirá si sanciona". La Jornada. p. 26. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  13. ↑ "Gammon Lake enters strategic alliance to take Ocampo Project into production". January 28, 2002.
  14. ↑ "Kemess Underground". AuRico Gold. Archived from the original on March 31, 2013.
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