Enter De Crespigny, London financier

摘要

De Crespigny has spent much of his time raising cows in Australia since Newmont Mining Corporation acquired Normandy for 2.26 billion US dollars in 2002, ending a spiteful bidding war with South Africa's AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. But over that time, prices paid for industrial metals, as well as gold, have surged higher as demand from developing countries like China intensified. De Crespigny said he plans to debut as a financier in London next month after listing his new company, Scarborough Minerals, on the London Stock Exchange, and relocating to Britain. "We won't explore and we won't operate mines, we'll back other people," he said. "We'll fund them and finance development." At its peak, Normandy owned gold operations in a dozen countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ghana, Turkey and the United States.