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CSIRO presses sell at Chrysos Corporation, MacCap nabs $85m block

Shares were offered at a floor of $7.90 per share – a 6.7 per cent discount to the last closing price.

Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

Updated Nov 25, 2025 – 7.36pm, first published at 5.40pm

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Macquarie Capital was hunting for buyers in Adelaide-based mining technology company Chrysos Corporation after Tuesday’s closing bell, seeking to fulfil a sell order from major shareholder the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.

Shares were offered at a floor price of $7.90 per share, a 6.7 per cent discount to Chrysos’ last traded price. Around 10.75 million shares were up for grabs, representing $85 million or 9 per cent of the company.

Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.

Kanika Sood is a journalist based in Sydney who writes for the Street Talk column.

Emma Rapaport is a co-editor of the Street Talk column. Prior to that, she was a markets reporter at The Australian Financial Review.