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Russian Gold Billionaire Testing Foreign Waters With Share Offer

  • Russia’s biggest gold miner to sell shares in Moscow, London
  • Offering of 7%-9% stake values Polyus as high as $9 billion

Gold Production At Polyus Gold International Ltd. Russia's Largest Producer

Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg
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Polyus PJSC plans to raise as much as $810 million selling shares in Moscow and London this month in a sign Russian mining tycoons are seeking to return to international stock markets.

The nation’s biggest gold producer, controlled by the family of billionaire Suleiman Kerimov, plans to offer a 7 to 9 percent stake at a price valuing the business as high as $9 billion, according to a company filingBloomberg Terminal.