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Inmet Mining's fourth quarter profits down on after-tax foreign exchange loss

By: The Canadian Press

Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 at 5:39 PM | Comments: 0

TORONTO - Hostile takeover target Inmet Mining Corp. (TSX:IMN) reported lower net income for the fourth quarter of 2012 on after-tax foreign exchange losses.

The Toronto-based miner had a profit of $38.8 million or 56 cents per share for the quarter, down from $46.5 million or 67 cents per share in the year earlier period.

That widely missed the $1.17 per share analysts polled by Thomson Reuters were expecting.

Gross sales were up 11 per cent to $259.9 million in the quarter from $233.4 million during the same 2011 period.

Inmet produced five per cent more copper, 16 per cent more zinc and six per cent more pyrite than it did a year earlier.

The $19-million foreign exchange loss amounted to 27 cents per share, mainly on U.S. cash held in euro-based entities.

Excess cash balances are held in U.S. currency, which Inmet plans to use to construct its Cobre Panama project.

Inmet's board had rejected a hostile $5.1-billion takeover bid by First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (TSX:FM). That bid expires at on Feb. 27.

Inmet shares closed down 2.4 per cent to $66.93 on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Inmet is a Canadian-based global mining company that produces copper and zinc. It has three wholly-owned mining operations in Turkey, Spain and Finland, along with an 80 per cent interest in Cobre Panama currently under construction.

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