Glencore's Double-Deal Week Adds African Oil and Peru Zinc

  • Company enters deal for Chevron South Africa, Botswana assets
  • Glencore to also take a bigger stake in Peruvian miner Volcan

on October 30, 2015 in San Francisco, California.

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Even for commodities deal king Ivan Glasenberg, it’s been a busy week.

Glencore Plc announced two acquisitions potentially worth as much as $2 billion within days of each other. One to capture a stake in Chevron Corp.’s oil refining and fuel service stations in South Africa and Botswana, the other to take a bigger stake in Latin America’s top zinc miner.