Wesfarmers has agreed to sell its Premier Coal business to Yancoal Australia’s subsidiary Austar Coal Mine for $296m.

The Premier Coal mine, located in Collie, 200km south of Perth, produces about 3.5Mtof thermal coal per year from the Collie Coal Basin.

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Detour Gold has entered into a definitive agreement with Trade Winds Ventures, to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Trade Winds for total consideration of C$84m (US$81.3m).

Under the terms of the agreement, Trade Winds shareholders will receive 0.0142 of a Detour Gold share and C$0.0001 in cash for each Trade Winds share held.

The assets of Trade Winds include a 50:50 joint venture with Detour Gold in respect of the Block A property, located adjacent to Detour Gold’s Detour Lake project, and its wholly-owned Gowest property, in the Detour Lake area.

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Silver Standard Resources has completed the sale of its Bowdens project in New South Wales, Australia, to Kingsgate Consolidated for an estimated value of A$75m (US$73.4m).

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Bowdens project is located 200km north-west of Sydney and consists of a single exploration tenement covering 188km2.]

Rio Tinto, through its subsidiary Rio Tinto International Holdings, has acquired an additional 3,700,000 common shares in Ivanhoe Mines for C$73m (US$70.6m).

With this acquisition, Rio Tinto has increased its ownership in Ivanhoe Mines by 0.5% to a total of 361 million common shares, which is equal to a 49% stake.

NEMI Northern Energy and Mining has received shareholder approval for the sale of its interest in Peace River Coal to Anglo American Coal Canada for a cash purchase price of C$73m (US$70.6m).

Peace River Coal is jointly owned by Anglo American, Hillsborough Resources and NEMI Northern Energy and Mining, with substantial coal properties in the Peace River region of north-east British Columbia.