Mineral Resources: The big picture
All images: Mineral Resources. BY ELIZABETH FABRI MINERAL Resources’ acquisition spree continues – this time a farm-in deal with Brockman Mining, the owner of the Marillana iron ore project in the Pilbara. The increasingly diversified Mineral Resources (MinRes) has been striking deal after deal in recent months. Rewind the clock back to June, and there was the landmark purchase of Cliff’s closing Koolyanobbing iron ore operations following its unsuccessful takeover bid for Atlas Iron. In October, its next deal: an acquisition of BCI Minerals’ Kumina iron ore project in the Pilbara. A month later a $1.58 billion agreement to sell half its share in its Wodgina lithium project to Albemarle followed, along with a separate JV deal to acquire a…