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  • Theta Gold Mines (TGM) has made an off-market takeover offer to acquire all the shares on issue in Focus Minerals (FML)
  • TGM will offer 2 of its own shares for every 1 FML shares on issue, giving Focus an assumed value of 36 cents each
  • Theta has labelled the offer as “attractive” and explains the price is a 41.2 per cent discount to FML’s last closing price of 25.5 cents
  • The takeover bid comes as Shandong Gold has the opportunity to take a majority stake in Focus through a recently announced entitlement offer
  • TGM shares are steady at 18 cents each, while Focus is trading up 1.96 per cent at 26 cents per share

Theta Gold Mines (TGM) has made an off-market takeover offer to acquire all the shares on issue in Focus Minerals (FML).

The gold business will offer 2 TGM shares for every 1 FML share on issue, giving Focus an assumed value of 36 cents per security.

Theta has labelled its offer “attractive” and added that the price was a 41.2 per cent discount to FML’s last closing price of 25.5 cents.

TGM’s takeover bid comes as Shandong Gold has the opportunity to take a 66.25 per cent majority stake in Focus through a recently announced entitlement offer.

Theta Gold Mines argues a combined FML-TGM business would be a leader amongst its ASX-listed gold mining peers.

Together, a combined company would have a JORC compliant Mineral Resource of more than 12.3 million ounces (Moz) of gold.

At this stage, Focus Minerals said it was considering Theta’s takeover offer and advised its...



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