Commission recommends approval of Assore, DCM deal

15th April 2015 By: Natalie Greve - Creamer Media Contributing Editor Online

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The Competition Commission has recommended to the Competition Tribunal that it approve, without conditions, a transaction that would see mining holding group Assore acquiring African Rainbow Minerals’ 50% stake in the Dwarsrivier chrome mine (DCM), in Mpumalanga.

Post-merger, Assore would have sole control over DCM.

Assore, through its various joint venture entities and subsidiaries, was involved in the mining of manganese, iron-ore and chrome ore together, with other industrial minerals and the manufacture of manganese and chrome alloys.

DCM supplied chrome ore to the global market.