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That mine's mine!

23 December 2009 By Neil Collins

When Xstrata raised $6 bln in January, Glencore, the miner’s top shareholder, couldn’t afford to subscribe. So it sold Xstrata a mine, with the option to buy it back a year later. Now the commodity trader is raising capital, have Xstrata’s other shareholders been used as a bank?

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