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Gold/Mining/Energy : Northgate Exploration - NGX (TSE)

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To: NYBob1 who wrote (8)7/13/2007 10:51:59 AM
From: NYBob1  Read Replies (1) of 37
 
Equity 'to target mining' -

THE mining sector could be the next target
for the private equity industry,
according to global accounting and
consulting firm Ernst & Young.

The increasingly criticised top-end private equity
industry has so far steered clear of the mining sector
because of its boom-and-bust cycles,
specialist requirements and lack of easy
exit strategies.

But E&Y's global mining and metals team believes
that with the barriers to entry dropping across
the industry then even the mining could become
potential targets.
"Increased action in the mining sector indicates
that the historical reasons behind the lack of
private equity may no longer apply," E&Y said.

Mining firms' balance sheets, flush with cash
thanks to soaring prices for industrial metals,
fit well with the low cashflow-to-debt ratio
favoured by private equity, which tends to
rely on high leverage.

"The knock-on effect of this is that mining companies
have become highly cash-generative,
with predictable and secure cash flows," E&Y said.

Speculation in recent days has suggested ....

$6 price target for NGX -

Northgate Minerals Corp. (NGX : TSX)
Estimates upped on new gold & copper prices
Blackmont Capital maintains "buy",
12-month target price is raised to $6.00 -
Imo. Tia.
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Ps.
Its aproblem with fiatz we know -
we don't no know when all fiatz will be hit? -
but when it start -
EX.
With inflation at officially more than 3,700%
(some economists put it as high as 9,000%),
supermarkets are unwilling to comply,
so a price-control unit has been trying -
to enforce it -
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