Newmont sells total Orla stake for about $439 million in divestiture push

(Reuters) – Gold miner Newmont mentioned on Friday it bought its stake in Orla Mining for $439 million via the Toronto Inventory Change as a part of its divestiture program.

The corporate disposed of your entire 43 million shares it held in Orla Mining at $10.14 per share.

Final 12 months, Newmont introduced plans to divest non-core property, trim its workforce and reduce debt after its $17.14 billion acquisition of Australian agency Newcrest.

Newmont was seeking to unlock greater than $2 billion in money via portfolio optimization following the Newcrest acquisition, with a give attention to increasing Tier 1 property as a part of its broader transformation plan.

Since November 2024, the corporate has divested a number of of its Canadian property, together with the Musselwhite Gold Mine in Ontario, which it agreed to promote to Orla in an $850 million deal.

The stake sale is a part of the corporate’s push to streamline its fairness portfolio and unlock money to help capital allocation priorities, Newmont CEO Tom Palmer mentioned.

(Reporting by Sumit Saha in Bengaluru; Modifying by Tasim Zahid)