{"id":1113,"date":"2015-02-16T17:38:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T06:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2015-02-16T17:38:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T06:38:58","slug":"us-canadian-private-equity-firms-hunt-asx-gold-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/us-canadian-private-equity-firms-hunt-asx-gold-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"US, Canadian private equity firms hunt ASX gold companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cashed-up mining specialist private equity funds in the United States and Canada are preparing to buy into gold projects held by ASX-listed juniors starved of capital and funding.<\/p>\n<p>The North American funds&#8217; interest in Australian assets follows a flurry of equity raisings in Canada last month, which saw US-based private equity firms pitch in almost $100 million.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Twigger said private equity interest since January had &#8220;been red hot&#8221; in gold and there was also interest in nickel and zinc.<\/p>\n<p>Gold has been the best-performing commodity since the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/business\/mining-and-resources\/us-canadian-private-equity-firms-hunt-asx-gold-companies-20150216-13ea0e.html#ixzz3Rt5GupnQ\" title=\"Are we to be mounted by the Canadians\">http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/business\/mining-and-resources\/us-canadian-private-equity-firms-hunt-asx-gold-companies-20150216-13ea0e.html#ixzz3Rt5GupnQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chart.finance.yahoo.com\/c\/1y\/gold.ax\" alt=\"\" height=\"200px\"><br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clixgalore.com\/PSale.aspx?BID=69086&amp;AfID=271602&amp;AdID=6815&amp;LP=www.perthmint.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">Buy gold bullion or coins?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cashed-up mining specialist private equity funds in the United States and Canada are preparing to buy into gold projects held by ASX-listed juniors starved of capital and funding. The North American funds&#8217; interest in Australian assets follows a flurry of equity raisings in Canada last month, which saw US-based private equity firms pitch in almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gold-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}