Inmet Mining Mails Notice of Variation to Petaquilla Minerals Shareholders
(firmenpresse) - TORONTO, CANADA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/26/12 -- Inmet Mining Corporation (TSX: IMN) announced today that it has filed its Notice of Variation (the "Notice") adjusting its offer for all of the outstanding common shares of Petaquilla Minerals Ltd. ("Petaquilla") with Canadian securities regulators and has mailed the Notice and related documents to Petaquilla shareholders.
Under the adjusted offer ("Final Offer"), Petaquilla shareholders can elect to receive:
The increased offer consideration represents a substantial increase of approximately 25 percent over Inmet's original offer. Based on the closing price of Inmet common shares on October 24, 2012 of $50.82, each of the Share Alternative and the maximum cash consideration of $0.60 per Petaquilla common share represents a 71 percent premium to the closing price of $0.35 for the Petaquilla common shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange (the "TSX") on September 5, 2012 (the last trading day prior to Inmet's announcement of its intention to make the offer).
The Notice provides that the Final Offer is open for acceptance until 11:59 p.m. (Vancouver time) on the original expiry date of Monday, November 5, 2012. The Notice also provides that certain conditions to the offer that were to be determined in the sole judgment of Inmet will now be determined in the reasonable judgment of Inmet.
Copies of the offer and take-over bid circular and the Notice can be accessed from Inmet's website at and from the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval at . Inmet has also filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a registration statement on Form F-80 and a tender offer statement on Schedule 14D-1F in connection with the offer, which are available free of charge through the web site maintained by the SEC at , by calling the SEC at telephone number 800-SEC-0330.
This press release does not constitute an offer to buy or the solicitation of an offer to sell any of the securities of Petaquilla or Inmet.
About Inmet
Inmet is a Canadian-based global mining company that produces copper and zinc. We have three wholly-owned mining operations: Cayeli (Turkey), Las Cruces (Spain) and Pyhasalmi (Finland). We also have an 80 percent interest in Cobre Panama, a development property in Panama, currently in construction.
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Inmet Mining Corporation
Flora Wood
Director, Investor Relations
+1 416 361 4808
Laurel Hill Advisory
North American Toll-Free: 1-877-452-7184
Outside North America: 1-416-304-0211
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