{"id":796,"date":"2012-08-06T13:40:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T02:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/australian-gold-sector-starts-the-consolidation-phase\/"},"modified":"2012-08-06T13:40:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T02:40:24","slug":"australian-gold-sector-starts-the-consolidation-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/australian-gold-sector-starts-the-consolidation-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian gold sector starts the consolidation phase."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s announcement of Integra&#8217;s (ASX: IGR) merger with Silver Lake (ASX: SLR) along with Alacer (ASX: AQG) emerging from the recent merger of Anatolia Minerals Development, a TSX listed company and Avoca Resources Limited plus Evolution Mining creation in late 2011 to form a mid-tier Australian gold producer through a merger of Catalpa Resources Ltd and Conquest Mining Ltd and the concurrent acquisition of Newcrest Mining\u2019s interests in the Cracow and Mt Rawdon mines; Indicates that we are now seeing a wave of gold mining mergers creating a new class of 400,000 per annum mid-tier Australian gold producers.<\/p>\n<p><b>Next up and squarely in the firing line are ASX: FML and ASX: RMS.<\/b> I&#8217;m not saying that these two will merge but that they are targets. But it wouldn&#8217;t be a stretch to postulate that Alacer (ASX: ACQ) could take out Focus as they have adjacent resources and some outstanding synergies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s announcement of Integra&#8217;s (ASX: IGR) merger with Silver Lake (ASX: SLR) along with Alacer (ASX: AQG) emerging from the recent merger of Anatolia Minerals Development, a TSX listed company and Avoca Resources Limited plus Evolution Mining creation in late 2011 to form a mid-tier Australian gold producer through a merger of Catalpa Resources Ltd [&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-796","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\/796","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=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}