Cleveland-Cliffs Inc and Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. announced that each company’s Board of Directors has approved a definitive merger agreement under which Cleveland-Cliffs will acquire all outstanding shares of Alpha in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $10 billion.
Under the terms of the agreement, for each share of Alpha common stock, Alpha [...]

Goodrich Petroleum Corporation announced the pricing of its previously announced offering of 3,000,000 shares of its common stock pursuant to a registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
All of the shares offered will be sold at a price to the public of $64.00 per share. Net proceeds from the offering, estimated at $183.9 [...]

Oilfield services company Hornbeck Offshore Services Inc. may sell all or part of its stake in its downstream tug and tank barge unit.
The company hired JP Morgan Securities Inc. to help it assess various options for the division, which may include a possible sale, adding to the business through acquisitions or consolidation and other possible [...]

Worldwide industrial services company Harsco Corporation announced it has successfully completed a bond offering of 5.75%, 10-year senior notes totaling $450 million. The notes were rated A3 by Moody’s and A- by both Standard & Poor’s and Fitch. The managing underwriters of the offering were J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., and Greenwich [...]

Newmont Mining Corp., the world’s second-biggest gold producer, said profit plunged 67 percent in the first quarter as slumping output and higher mining costs erased the benefits of a price rally.
Net income fell to $68 million, or 15 cents a share, from $209 million, or 47 cents, a year earlier, Denver-based Newmont said today [...]

EDGE PETROLEUM CORPORATION (Nachrichten) announced that it has priced a public offering of 9.5 million shares of common stock at $13.25 per share to the public. Edge has also granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1.425 million shares of common stock from Edge at the public offering price less [...]

Goldcorp Inc. and Glamis Gold Ltd. announced today that they have agreed to combine in a US$21.3 billion transaction to create one of the world’s largest gold mining companies. The new company will continue under the name Goldcorp Inc.
Under the terms of the transaction, which is structured as a Plan of Arrangement, Glamis’ common shareholders [...]