Merger madness: Barrick Gold's acquisition of Equinox Minerals led the pack. Follow the link underneath this gallery to read the full list of 2011's biggest deals.
Open this photo in gallery: Barrick's Goldstrike mine in Nevada. Barrick Gold photo
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Cliffs Natural Resources' Northshore Mine in Minnesota. Copyright © 2011 Cliffs Natural Resources Inc.
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Open this photo in gallery: TMX Broadcast Centre manager Kris Backus walks in front of the centre's display board in Toronto on Monday May 16, 2011. Frank Gunn/THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Open this photo in gallery: RBC bank Branch in the U.S. RBC Bank photo
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Open this photo in gallery: Windmills generate electricity in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains near the town of Pincher Creek, Alberta September 27, 2010. TODD KOROL/REUTERS
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Open this photo in gallery: Intact Financial Corporation President and Chief Executive Officer Charles Brindamour speaks during the annual general meeting of shareholders in Toronto May 4, 2011. MIKE CASSESE/REUTERS/Reuters
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Open this photo in gallery: An employee walks at an oil storage site of the Sinopec Corp. on the outskirts of Taiyuan, the capital of north China's Shanxi province, Nov. 19, 2007. REUTERS/Reuters
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Open this photo in gallery: photos of Eldorado Gold's Säo Bento Mine in Brazil. Eldorado Gold photo
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Open this photo in gallery: A miner look at rock salt ore at Polkowice-Sieroszowice mine in Polkowice near Lubin, southern-western Poland July 29, 2011. Polkowice-Sieroszowice mine is a part of KGHM which is Europe's No. 2 copper producer. KACPER PEMPEL/REUTERS
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Open this photo in gallery: BOLTON.ONTARIO.NOV.7.2005 Workers assembling an injection molding machine at Husky Injection Molding Systems' plant in Bolton, Ont. FRED LUM/The Globe and Mail
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