Newmont's Goldcorp Acquisition Creates $8.75 Billion Project Portfolio, an Industrial Info Market Brief

Another major M&A announcement in the gold mining world! This morning, Newmont Mining Corporation and Goldcorp announced plans to combine to create world's largest gold miner. This comes a week after Barrick Gold Corporation and Randgold Resources Ltd combined to create one of the world's largest gold mining firms.

The acquisition of Goldcorp by Newmont adds mainly North American assets to Newmont's global portfolio of mines and projects in the Americas, Africa and Australia. Combined, the companies have $8.75 billion worth of active projects globally, according to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Database Platform.