"Elsewhere in the sector, Xstrata fell 108p to close at £38.95 after it emerged that Glencore, a 35pc shareholder in the Anglo-Swiss mining group, had held talks to sell its stake to a consortium led by the China Development Bank, as well as a number of other suitors."
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