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.
Please enable JavaScript to view this content. 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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