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B2Gold history
B2Gold company history timeline
Their initial public offering in December 2007 on the Toronto Venture Exchange raised $100 million for exploration and valuation purposes.
B2Gold was founded in 2007 by Clive T. Johnson and other former executives at Bema Gold which was in the process of being acquired by Kinross Gold for $3.5 billion.
In 2008, the exploration company graduated to the Toronto Stock Exchange.
The total gold revenue of $127.5 million for the year was an increase of 517% over 2009 and cash operating costs improved by $207 per ounce of gold.
In 2009, the B2Gold became a gold producer with its acquisition of the TSX-listed, and financially distressed company, Central Sun Mining.
The Company completed building a conventional milling process and commercial production began on February 1st, 2010.
B2Gold added a third mine, in 2012, with its merger with ASX-listed CGA Mining.
Around this time, in 2013, B2Gold also acquired Volta Resources in an all-stock deal worth US$63 million for its Burkina Faso exploration properties, and lost an exploration property in Rancho Grande (El Pavón), Nicaragua, due to community opposition.
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