An undisclosed institutional investor in gold and copper miner Zijin Mining Group sold its entire stake through a block trade on Tuesday evening, showing that the market remains open at least for quick, non-marketed transactions.
Long-only investors have been buyers of Zijin Mining during the past few weeks and saw the Goldman Sachs-led placement as a good opportunity to increase their exposure at a discount to the market price. As a result, the bookrunner was able to fix the price in the upper half of the range for a total deal size of HK$1.46 billion $187 million.
The seller offered all its 338.383 million H-shares...