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Lihir Gold shareholders have voted almost unanimously to accept Newcrest Mining’s $10.6 billion scrip-and-cash takeover offer.

The deal will create the world’s fourth-biggest mining company.

With no sign of a white knight emerging, the vote, in Port Moresby yesterday, makes the acquisition almost a formality, with Papua New Guinea National Court approval of the deal scheme of arrangement the only hurdle.

At the meeting, 99.86 per cent of all votes cast were in favour of the deal, which will see Lihir shareholders receive 0.12 Newcrest shares and 22.5c for every...

The price of gold has settled into a lower range after climbing into the all-time high of $ 1226 per ounce as gold prices and gold mining stocks have been facing the headwind of a stronger U.S. dollar. Correction recently gold prices have fallen $ 115 from the high-December 3 this morning for a low print of $ 1,010.90 an ounce.