09:54 AM EST - B2Gold Corp. : and CGA Mining Limited announced that they have entered into a definitive Merger Implementation Agreement to combine the two companies at the agreed exchange ratio of 0.74 B2Gold common shares for each CGA share held, which represents a purchase price of approximately $3.18 per CGA share and a premium of 22% using the 20-day volume weighted average share price of each respective company, and a 26% premium over the CGA closing share price on September 17, 2012 based on the closing price for the B2Gold shares as of such date. The transaction is valued at approximately $1.1 billion. B2Gold Corp.
shares T.BTO are trading down $0.39 at $3.91.
