(Reuters) - BHP Group (BHP.AX) will pay 17.1 million pounds to raise its stake in SolGold Plc (SOLG.L), the majority owner of a key Cascabel copper-gold project in Ecuador, to 14.7% from 11.1% currently, it said on Monday.
The world’s biggest miner will buy 77 million new shares in SolGold for 22.15 pence a share.
Reporting by Nikhil Kurian Nainan in Bengaluru; Editing by Jan Harvey
