ALTHOUGH MINING mergers and acquisitions are expected to slow down on a global level, the trend does not seem to be affecting China. In its report, Mining Deals, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) reports that mergers and acquisitions will slow down in the coming year (see page 12). However, in a subsequent report, PwC found that China's share of global mining deals nearly doubled in the first half of the year to 13 percent from the same period a year ago. That is even as the number of global mining deals fell 30 percent because of the broad economic slowdown, which includes China's own quasi-downturn.
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