11:41 AM EST - Equinox Minerals Limited : announced today that Barrick Gold Corporation has entered into a support agreement to acquire, through an all-cash offer, all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Equinox by way of a friendly takeover offer. The Offer is for $8.15 per Equinox share in cash, or a total of approximately $7.3 billion. Equinox Minerals Limited
shares T.EQN are trading up $0.87 at $8.37.
