| Mick Davis hasn't spent a cent of his $6bn, but private money and non-mining players' share of M&A has already doubled in less than three years. In 2014 the number of mergers and acquisitions in the mining and metals industry doubled from the year before according to data from research company SNL Metals & Mining.
It was far from a bumper year though. At $21 billion deal values were less than half 2012's tally according to the authors of the report Nick Wright and Mark Ferguson. It also pales against the heady pre-financial crisis days when mining M&A came within shouting distance of the $100 billion mark...............................................Full Article: Source
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