M&A Deal Summary

80 Mile Acquires Avannaa Exploration

On September 5, 2016, 80 Mile acquired metals/mining company Avannaa Exploration from Capricorn Energy

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is 80 Mile’s 2nd transaction in the Metals/Mining sector.
  • This is 80 Mile’s 1st transaction in the United Kingdom.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2016-09-05
Target Avannaa Exploration
Sector Metals/Mining
Buyer(s) 80 Mile
Sellers(s) Capricorn Energy
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

Avannaa Exploration

London, United Kingdom
Avannaa Exploration Ltd. is a mineral exploration company with several advanced projects in the south-west of the country. Avannaa’s primary geographical focus is Greenland. Commodity targets include precious metals, rare earth elements, base metals and diamonds.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

80 Mile

London, United Kingdom

Category Company
Sector Metals/Mining
Employees7
DESCRIPTION

80 Mile is an operater and an exploration company in the United Kingdom. Company is exploring the Pituffik Ilmenite Project, which includes a very large and unusually pure titanium occurrence. Work to date indicates potential for Pituffik to be in the top percentile of projects worldwide in terms of heavy mineral grade, and this has been independently verified. The Company also owns high-grade magmatic copper and nickel sulphide deposits as well as copper-lead-zinc VHS-style deposits in Finland and Austria. This multi-commodity portfolio remains a strategic asset of importance and has been restructured to be cost-sustainable. 80 Mile was founded in 2005 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 2
Sector: Metals/Mining M&A 2 of 2
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: United Kingdom M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2016 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-03-08 Bluejay Mining

Virgin Islands (British)

Bluejay Mining Ltd. operates titanium exploration project in Greenland called the Pituffik titanium project.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Capricorn Energy

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Category Company
Founded 1980
Sector Oil/Gas Exploration
Employees45
Revenue 148M GBP (2024)
DESCRIPTION

Capricorn Energy is an independent oil and gas exploration, development and production company. Capricorn Energy was founded in 1980 and is based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Metals/Mining M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: United Kingdom M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2016 M&A 1 of 1