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Toronto-based Barrick Gold trumped China Minmetals Resources to win a $7.22 billion takeover of Equinox Minerals (ASX:EQN).

In the global mineral asset acquisition rush, Barrick's move was the most recent and comes at an opportune time as industrial metal prices rise to levels of about US$10,000 per tonne. Equinox has followed through on the C$4.8bn bid for Canada's Lundin Mining.

Three Chinese banks are giving at least US$4.6 billion corporate debt funding to buy Equinox Minerals, (ASX:EQN) according to Minmetals Resources, with majority of the loan to be partly secured by its assets. Thomson Reuters publication Business Point first reported the loan details. The magazine said that China Development bank will take the largest share and Bank of China has also been approached.

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