Jill! I use to love the gold mining stocks and still watch them.....gave these to eyedoc a week or so ago.....ya might want to look at them....he might want to get in on the conversations......good luck. See note on the bottom of page.
$XAU 56.89 + 1.39 +2.5% (Gold INDEX)
HAL 26.65 -2.08 -7.2% (exploration I thought I use to play this for a mining stock.....been a while)
AU 16.52 + 0.70 +4.4%
AngloGold is the world's largest gold producer and holder of the most substantial gold reserves. The company has operations in South Africa consisting of 12 mines and also Ergo, a metallurgical operation which extracts gold from low-grade dumps. AngloGold is also involved in joint gold mining ventures in Namibia and Mali.
PDG 11.73 + 0.63 +5.7%
Placer Dome, Inc. acquires, develops and operates gold and other mineral properties. The company has reserves of more than 46 million ounces of gold, and produces over 3.4 million ounces of gold per year. Placer Dome also produces silver and copper, with an estimated annual output of about 7 million ounces of silver and over 550 million pounds of copper. The company's major mining operations are located in Australia, Canada, Chile, Papua New Guinea and the US. Placer Dome coordinates its exploration program from the company headquarters in Vancouver and the regional offices located in Reno and Santiago, Chile; Johannesburg, South Africa; and Brisbane, Australia. More than 60% of the company's exploration expenses are allocated in the US, Mexico and Canada.
ABX 16.65 + 0.54 +3.4%
American Barrick Gold Corporation produces gold and operates low-cost mines. Barrick Gold's flagship Goldstrike Property, located in north-central Nevada, consists of the Betze-Post open pit mine and the high-grade Meikle underground mine. This property, which produces over 2.3 million ounces of gold annually, has more than 24 million ounces of gold reserves and hosts other gold deposits, including the Rodeo and North Betze underground deposits. Other mine operations include the Holt-McDermott Mine in Ontario, Canada; the Bousquet Mine in Quebec, Canada; the Pierina Mine in the Andean Cordillera, Peru; the Bulyanhalu Mine in Tanzania; and El Indio Mine in Chile. Barrick Gold has over 58 million ounces of gold reserves. In Jun 01, the company agreed to acquire Homestake Mining.
HM 8.52 + 0.09 +1.1%
Homestake Mining Company is the holding company for the Homestake Mining Company of California, a gold mining company. The company's primary operations include exploration, extraction, refining, processing and reclamation of gold. The company conducts operations at several major mines worldwide including the Ruby Hill, McLaughlin and Homestake mines in the US, Eskay Creek mine in Canada, Kalgoorlie mine in Australia, Veladero mine in Argentina and Agua de la Falda mine in Chile. It is also involved in exploration projects in Argentina and the Andean region of South America. Homestake has over 20 million ounces of gold and over 144 million ounces of silver in reserves. The company also owns 50% interest in the Round Mountain mine in Nevada.
CDE 0.85 + 0.12 +16.4%
Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation explores for, develops, owns, and operates silver and gold mining properties. The company owns and operates the Rochester silver and gold surface mine in northwestern Nevada; the Galena underground silver mine in Idaho; the Fachinal open-pit and underground gold and silver mine in southern Chile; and the Petorca underground gold and silver mine in central Chile. Coeur also owns the Kensington gold property in Alaska; the San Bartolomé silver project in Bolivia; 25% of the Yilgarn Star gold mine in western Australia; and other interests in gold-mining companies and properties. The company's properties have proven and probable reserves of 2.6 million contained ounces of gold and 89.3 million contained ounces of silver.
AEM 10.55 + 0.62 +6.2%
Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. is a gold producer. Agnico-Eagle has operations located primarily in northwestern Quebec, and exploration and development activities in North America. The company operates the LaRonde Mine, an expanding, 3-shaft mine in Quebec. The LaRonde produces over 300,000 ounces of gold annually and has estimated proven and probable reserves of over 7.8 million contained ounces of gold. The mine also has some 100 million ounces of silver, over 5.8 million pounds of copper and about 3.2 billion pounds of zinc in its reserves. The company's exploration activities are centered in the Abitibi greenstone belt in Ontario, Quebec and Nevada, and its holdings consists of almost 4,000 sites covering over 178,000 acres.
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Golden Star Resources Ltd. explores for, acquires, and develops gold and diamond mines. The company concentrates its exploration activities in greenstone belts, volcanic-sedimentary rock assemblages known to be favorable geologic environments for gold mineralization. The company owns a 70% operating equity interest in Bogoso Gold Limited, which owns and operates the Bogoso mine in Ghana, and a 30% common-share equity interest in Omai Gold Mines Limited, a Guyanese company that owns and operates the Omai gold mine in Guyana. The company's share of the proven and probable reserves at these mines is more than 600,000 contained ounces of gold. Golden Star also has projects in French Guiana, Suriname, Ivory Coast, and Kenya.
BGO 0.36 + 0.06 +20.0%
Bema Gold Corp. is engaged in the mining and production of gold. The company acquires, explores and develops precious metal properties. Bema owns 50% interest in the Refugio Property in Chile, which has proven and probable reserves of over 1.8 million ounces of gold. The company indirectly owns 49% interest in the Aldebaran Property in Chile, about 20 miles from the Refugio Property. This property contains over 23 million ounces of gold and over 6 billion pounds of copper in total reserves. Bema's indirect interest in the Julietta Gold Project in Magadan, Russia, is 79%. This project contains over 400,000 ounces of gold and over 7 million ounces of silver in total reserves. The company also owns the Yarnell Property in Arizona as well as an exploration property in the southern Maricunga District, Chile.
ECO 0.70 + 0.18 +34.6%
Echo Bay Mines Ltd. explores for, mines, and processes gold and silver. The company owns 3 producing mines: the McCoy/Cove mine in Nevada; the Kettle River mine in Washington; and the Lupin mine in Nunavut Territory of Canada. Echo Bay owns a 50% interest in the Round Mountain mine in Nevada. Homestake Mining Company owns the remaining 50% interest. The company also owns the Aquarius development property in Canada. Echo Bay produces over 670,000 ounces of gold and more than 12 million ounces of silver annually. The company has estimated proven and probable reserves of about 4.5 million ounces of gold and over 10 million ounces of silver.
VGZ 0.09 + 0.02 +28.6%
Vista Gold Corp. explores for, acquires, develops, and operates mineral properties in North and South America. The company's primary mining operation is the Hycroft mine in Nevada, which produces some 40,000 ounces of gold and 183,000 ounces of silver annually. Vista Gold also owns the Amayapampa gold property in Bolivia, twelve additional mineral properties now under evaluation in North and South America, and a 26% interest in Zamora Gold Corp., a Canadian mineral exploration company with interests in mineral concessions in southern Ecuador. The company estimates its proven and probable reserves at 495,000 ounces of gold and 4.1 million ounces of silver. Vista Gold's Mineral Ridge mine in Nevada filed for bankruptcy in 1999 with a view to ceasing all mining operations
CBJ 0.55 + 0.13 +31.0%
Cambior, Inc. explores for, mines, and produces gold in North and South America. Cambior's Doyon Division, located on northwestern Quebec's prolific Cadillac Fault, comprises the Doyon and Mouska underground gold mines. The Doyon Division, the company's most important core asset, produces over 250,000 ounces of gold annually. Cambior's Omai mine in Guyana is operated by an affiliated company, Omai Gold Mines Ltd., and it produces over 300,000 ounces of gold annually. Cambior also manages northwestern Quebec's Sleeping Giant mine, a high-grade vein-type underground gold producer, in a 50%-owned joint venture with Aurizon Mines Ltd. Cambior also operates the Niobec mine, North America's only producer of niobium. The company has a total reserve of over 2.7 million ounces of gold.
NEM 22.28 +1.13 +5.34%
Newmont Mining Corp. is involved in the exploration for and production of gold worldwide. The company owns the Mesquite mine in Imperial County, California, as well as mines near Carlin and Winnemucca, Nevada. Newmont also owns over 50% interest in the Minera Yanacocha mine some 375 miles north of Lima, Peru and a 50% interest in Zarafshan-Newmont, a gold-producing venture in Uzbekistan. In addition, Newmont owns an 80% interest in the Minahasa multi-deposit project in Indonesia and a 44% interest in the La Herradura mine in northwest Sonora, Mexico. Newmont owns 56% interest of the Batu Hijau mine in Indonesia, where it produces copper concentrates as well as gold. In South America, the company began its 60% owned Cangrejos project in Ecuador. In Jan 01, Newmont acquired Battle Mountain Gold.
RYO 4.10 -0.30 -6.82%
Royal Oak Mines is a North American gold mining company with operations in Canada. The company mines gold in Ontario; the Northwest Territories; and Newfoundland. Royal Oak produces its gold by underground and open pit mining methods. The company owns mineral rights to 86 properties covering nearly 260,000 acres. It has mineable ore and mineralized reserves of more than 6.4 million ounces of gold and produces more than 425,000 ounces of gold per year. The company also has significant investments in other gold mining companies including Royal Eagle Exploration Inc. (50.01%), Mountain Minerals Co. (43.1%), Geddes Resources (39.1%), Asia Minerals Corp. (35.4%), and Athabaska Gold Resources (20.8%).
My favorites from the '80 were...I Can't believe the prices today
Homestake Mining
Echo Bay
NEM
Jill watch the dollar.....when I was playing it I would get up at 5:30 in the morning and see how the dollar was doing and at that time gold would do just the opposite......check it out for a while and see.
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