Secondary Recommendation

Centamin Egypt - On track to become 500k oz gold producer

November 2010

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One effect of the rising gold price has been a sharp upward reappraisal of mining firms' reserves on the basis that higher prices make it economic to extract even the lower, more marginal grades. One such beneficiary has been FTSE-250 constituent Centamin Egypt, which on 15 September announced a 28% increase in proven and probable reserves to 9.1m oz at an average grade of 1.15g/t after re-optimising its calculations to use a long term price of US$900 / oz. On top of that it also holds a further 5m oz of resources, which at a later date could also be upgraded and is one of several reasons why the shares have been chased to new highs.Centamin's big break came in 1995 when it was granted a 160 sq km exploitation lease over the ...

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