Barrick Gold studied offer for Newmont Mining - Bloomberg
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Feb 21 (Reuters) - Canada's Barrick Gold Corp has studied a bid for Newmont Mining Corp as it looks for ways to boost production, Bloomberg reported https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-22/barrick-gold-said-to-have-studied-offer-for-newmont-mining?cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-canada&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=canada&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social on Thursday citing people familiar with the matter.
Newmont Mining said last month it would buy smaller rival Goldcorp Inc, for $10 billion.
Barrick and Newmont were not immediately available for comment. (Reporting by Sanjana Shivdas in Bengaluru)
