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Kristoffer Inton
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Lowering Yamana’s Fair Value Estimate on Underwhelming Terms of Chapada Mine Sale

On April 15, Yamana announced the sale of its Chapada mine to Lundin Mining for roughly $1 billion. We think Yamana received below fair value for the mine, especially since only $800 million of the purchase price is an upfront cash payment. The additional financial flexibility provided by the cash proceeds is helpful, but the mine sale puts additional pressure on Yamana to develop production elsewhere. This is concerning, given that certain mines from the company's last investment cycle have fai...
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Yamana Gold Inc.

Yamana Gold is engaged in the exploration, development, extraction, processing and reclamation of gold and other precious metals mining throughout the Americas including Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Colombia. As of Dec 31 2011, total proven reserves for gold, silver, cooper, zinc and molybdenum was 618,709,000 tonnes, 27,316,000 tonnes, 387,660,000 tonnes, 5,004,000 tonnes and 32,000,000 tonnes, respectively.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

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Kristoffer Inton

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