An Indonesian consortium led by veteran investment banker Agus Projosasmito is preparing to offer about $2 billion for control of Newmont Mining Corp.’s operations in the country after lining up bank financing, people with knowledge of the matter said.
The investor group plans to bid for about 80 percent of local operating company PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara over the next week at the earliest, the people said, asking not to be named before an announcement.
It is poised to borrow about $1 billion from banks including BNP Paribas SA, Malayan Banking Bhd. and Societe Generale SA, as well as state-owned lenders PT Bank Negara Indonesia and PT Bank Mandiri, according to the people.
PT Medco Energi Internasional, the Jakarta-listed oil and gas producer founded by businessman Arifin Panigoro, would be a shareholder of Newmont Nusa Tenggara together with Projosasmito after the planned purchase, the people said.
As part of the deal, the investor group will offer to buy the 24 percent stake in the Newmont operations held by the Bakrie family’s PT Bumi Resources Minerals, according to the people.
Newmont is seeking to sell its local business after Indonesia banned raw ore shipments in January 2014 and put a progressive tax on concentrates, a semi-processed ore that’s shipped to smelters for processing into finished metal.
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