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($1 = 1.4520 Australian dollars)
(Reporting by Rishav Chatterjee in Bengaluru; Editing by Diane
Craft and Mark Porter)
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Feb 6 (Reuters) - Australian copper and gold producer OZ
Minerals on Monday said its A$9.6 billion ($6.61
billion) buyout by BHP Group received approval from
Brazilian competition regulator the Administrative Council for
Economic Defence.
OZ Minerals on Dec. 22 entered a scheme implementation deed
with the world's largest listed miner, BHP, to proceed formally
with the takeover.
The scheme still remains subject to other conditions,
including approval by an Australian court and OZ Minerals'
shareholders, who are expected to vote on it in early April, the
copper-gold miner said in a
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