Wednesday, September 22, 2010

CEE-T Gold Producer Ready To Run?

Centamin Egypt (C$2.68, C$0.14, 5.5%) announced a 28% increase in Sukari proven and probable reserves to 9.1 million ounces of gold.

House Positions for C:CEE from 20100924 to 20100924
HouseBought$ValAveSold$ValAveNet$Net
2 RBC499,3811,494,6672.99338,636115,6322.993460,745-1,379,035
39 Merrill Lynch84,000251,6522.9962005962.9883,800-251,056
9 BMO Nesbitt41,700125,3223.00518,65055,8582.99523,050-69,464
13 Instinet10,40031,0902.989010,400-31,090
124 Questrade5,00014,9002.9805,000-14,900
1 Anonymous15,90047,8533.0115,20045,5172.995700-2,336
83 Mackie2036123.015812443.012122-368
57 Interactive01504513.007-150451
85 Scotia02,5007,6053.042-2,5007,605
101 Newedge4,60013,8463.019,30027,7762.987-4,70013,930
46 Macquarie6,00018,0703.01211,20033,6643.006-5,20015,594
5 Penson32,70097,9612.99638,500114,9532.986-5,80016,992
99 Jitney19,40058,0842.99436,200108,6263.001-16,80050,542
33 Canaccord020,00060,1003.005-20,00060,100
80 National Bank44,700134,3043.00566,500198,4182.984-21,80064,114
74 GMP225,300678,6543.012272,300820,6323.014-47,000141,978
73 Cormark089,000268,8043.02-89,000268,804
79 CIBC146,700439,7322.997273,000817,3502.994-126,300377,618
7 TD Sec26,10078,5833.011270,667809,1042.989-244,567730,521
TOTAL1,162,0843,485,3302.9991,162,0843,485,3302.99900

FP/wire say Nuinsco digging into Egypt next week

2010-09-23 09:37 ET - In the News

See In the News (C-NWI) Nuinsco Resources Ltd

The Financial Post reports in its Thursday, Sept. 23, edition that Nuinsco Resources hopes to seal a concession agreement in Egypt's eastern desert before the year is over, allowing it to explore an area where pharaohs once dug up gold to gild amulets and sarcophagi.

A Reuters dispatch to the Post reports that Egypt's gold mining industry, dating back to the days of Tutankhamun, faded in the twentieth century largely because of curbs on foreign investment imposed by President Gamal Abdel Nasser but changes to Egypt's mining code in 2008 renewed interest.

Firms such as Nuinsco and Centamin Egypt are betting now that there is more gold beneath the pharaoh's relatively shallow trenches. Nuinsco president Paul Jones says, "If they were finding gold in a trench that was being dug down to six feet, there's no reason to think that the gold ended at the bottom of that trench." Nuinsco, a junior with a market capitalization of $12.8-million, must spend $2-million on exploration in its first year under the terms of the Bukari concession agreement.

The firm plans to begin some early sampling, prospecting and mapping next week. Mr. Jones says, "We'll be hitting the ground running."




Buy Low To Sell High



If The Trend Is Your Friend
Look At This Climb In The Last 1 year
CEE Will Report 3rd Q In October 2010
They averaged $1152.00 per ounce sale on production in 2nd Q with 67,000 ozs produced.
With the price of Gold approaching 1300.00 they should report even higher earnings.





Centamin Egypt lowers 2010 gold production forecast

2010-09-13 08:05 ET - News Release

Mr. Josef El-Raghy reports

CENTAMIN EGYPT LIMITED PRODUCTION UPDATE

Centamin Egypt Ltd. has provided a downward revision to its 2010 guidance. The company now expects gold production for 2010 to be in the range of 160,000 to 170,000 ounces of gold, due to the following combination of factors:

  • In the process plant, intermittent SAG mill liner and lifter failures have continued throughout the quarter impacting steady state production. The company remains on track to change the polymetallic liner and lifter system to steel in October.
  • Initial grade reconciliations against the original reserve model in the sulphide ore are indicating 10 per cent higher ore tonnes, however, at a grade 10 per cent lower. While overall resource and reserve ounces remain intact, in the short term, this has reduced expected gold production. An updated pit optimization is currently nearing completion using a slightly revised resource model developed by consultant Hellman and Schofield.
  • While the supply of additional air and hydrogen peroxide into the flotation and leach circuits has been successful in increasing metallurgical recoveries to design level of 90 per cent, the implementation of these measures on a consistent and controlled basis is taking longer than anticipated and, as such, recoveries have been marginally lower.
  • The reduction in production will have an expected commensurate increase in cash cost per ounce particularly in the current third quarter. However, unit costs remain in line with management forecasts, and the company remains confident of returning a total cost of around $400 per ounce in the final quarter of 2010.
  • The company's expansion projects remain on schedule and budget, and the target for a 500,000-ounce production rate in 2012 remains unchanged.

Commenting on the revision, Josef El-Raghy, chairman of Centamin, said: "The short-term impediments to production performance highlighted above are well understood and are being progressively removed or resolved. Further adjustments to the production plant will be made throughout September, and we believe that the final quarter of 2010 will provide a more accurate demonstration of the normalized run rate of Sukari."

And the most recent News Says In Part:

The new ultimate pit design is now designed down to 608 metres RL, approximately 492 metres below the valley floor level.

Based on a 10-million-tonne-per-annum process plant coming on stream in 2012, this provides Sukari with a 25-year mine life from 2010, securing it as a long-term, low-cost significant gold producer. The company continues to maintain its strategy and schedule of an elevated cut-off grade feed to the process plant, followed by a significant plant expansion delivering a 500,000-ounce-per-annum production rate in 2012.

Importantly, an additional 1.41 million ounces of inferred mineralization was captured in the optimization of measured and indicated resources. The potential to convert these blocks to measured and indicated will further improve pit economics by lowering the existing strip ratio of 5.5 to 1 and increasing projected revenue streams.

The optimization was based on the most recent resource announced in Stockwatch on June 8, 2010, as well as a revised Hellman and Schofield model utilizing the most recent grade-control information to adjust the resource model parameters accordingly. A cut-off grade as low as 0.3 gram per tonne was used for the new reserve, as opposed to 0.4 g/t previously, reflecting the higher gold price and lower-grade oxide ore reporting to the dump leach.

The additional two million ounces of reserve have primarily been added in the Ra zone.

Significantly, the optimization was constrained from extending further to the north due to a lack of drilling and thus continues to remain open to further drill programs now being planned.

For comparative purposes, the company also reoptimized at a $700 gold price using the new resource model, adjusted for further information received from grade-control drilling, which resulted in a slightly lower grade and higher ore tonnes (see news release in Stockwatch of Sept. 13, 2010). As a result of this adjusted resource model and due to additional resource drilling, there is a subsequent increase of 370,000 ounces with a small decrease in average grade

PRICES
Date Open High Low Close Volume Adj Close*
21-Sep-10 2.98 3.00 2.91 3.00 1,324,800 3.00
20-Sep-10 3.11 3.11 3.05 3.07 1,099,100 3.07
17-Sep-10 2.98 3.08 2.97 3.00 2,220,100 3.00
16-Sep-10 2.80 2.89 2.79 2.88 1,403,400 2.88
15-Sep-10 2.70 2.76 2.65 2.72 2,483,700 2.72
14-Sep-10 2.56 2.64 2.48 2.54 4,912,100 2.54
13-Sep-10 2.62 2.66 2.55 2.59 5,244,400 2.59
10-Sep-10 2.97 2.98 2.81 2.89 1,271,500 2.89
9-Sep-10 2.87 2.91 2.85 2.86 580,500 2.86
8-Sep-10 2.86 2.91 2.86 2.88 1,744,800 2.88
7-Sep-10 2.89 2.89 2.85 2.86 548,700 2.86
3-Sep-10 2.88 2.93 2.88 2.88 863,400 2.88
2-Sep-10 2.91 2.91 2.87 2.89 707,700 2.89
1-Sep-10 2.93 2.95 2.84 2.88 1,071,700 2.88
31-Aug-10 2.84 2.91 2.83 2.87 783,100 2.87
30-Aug-10 2.82 2.82 2.78 2.80 268,500 2.80
27-Aug-10 2.84 2.85 2.79 2.82 1,215,400 2.82
26-Aug-10 2.81 2.85 2.76 2.85 1,386,300 2.85
25-Aug-10 2.75 2.80 2.75 2.80 1,323,100 2.80

CEE.TO - Centamin Egypt Npv (TSX)

DateOpenHighLowLastChangeVolume% Change
09/21/102.9803.0002.9103.000-0.0701260307-2.28%

Period Moving Average Price Change Percent Change Average Volume
5-Day 2.934 +0.460 +18.11% 1673277
20-Day 2.839 +0.240 +8.70% 1538927
50-Day 2.688 +0.560 +22.95% 1395525
100-Day 2.528 +0.930 +44.93% 2205199
200-Day 2.275 +0.630 +26.58% 2004269
Year to Date 2.297 +0.920 +44.23% 1996112
Period Raw Stochastic Stochastic %K Stochastic %D Average True Range
9-Day 82.54% 76.46% 65.23% 0.137
14-Day 82.54% 77.19% 67.43% 0.122
20-Day 82.54% 77.40% 68.21% 0.113
Period Relative Strength Percent R Historic Volatility MACD Oscillator
9-Day 61.32% 17.46% 80.25% +0.184
14-Day 60.28% 17.46% 64.63% +0.170
20-Day 59.72% 17.46% 56.65% +0.184
50-Day 57.91% 15.07% 44.83% +0.336
100-Day 56.17% 9.73% 49.22% +0.496

House Positions for C:CEE from 20100922 to 20100922
HouseBought$ValAveSold$ValAveNet$Net
2 RBC344,3421,041,4053.02413,34740,5913.041330,995-1,000,814
13 Instinet138,176415,9413.018,80026,6923.033129,376-389,249
7 TD Sec133,200395,3682.9687,40022,3443.019125,800-373,024
39 Merrill Lynch65,000195,4883.0082006063.0364,800-194,882
33 Canaccord74,170223,9083.01910,68632,0402.99863,484-191,868
53 Morgan Stanley48,600144,3622.97048,600-144,362
1 Anonymous80,200238,6362.97637,300111,1882.98142,900-127,448
11 MacQuarie30,90090,8462.94030,900-90,846
85 Scotia25,48975,7462.97218,30054,7792.9937,189-20,967
101 Newedge6,90020,5652.984,20012,6303.0072,700-7,935
81 HSBC1,3954,1152.9501,395-4,115
124 Questrade1,0002,9902.9901,000-2,990
65 Goldman5001,4952.990500-1,495
58 Qtrade02006043.02-200604
83 Mackie4011,2103.0177042,1163.006-303906
5 Penson44,400133,6263.0145,600136,6452.997-1,2003,019
9 BMO Nesbitt24,10071,9712.98626,15078,1642.989-2,0506,193
19 Desjardins04,00011,9602.99-4,00011,960
46 Macquarie4,00011,9402.98522,30067,3883.022-18,30055,448
89 Raymond James020,70061,8932.99-20,70061,893
99 Jitney41,100122,9392.99183,200249,7063.001-42,100126,767
79 CIBC347,9321,043,6393.00391,4001,171,2602.992-43,468127,621
80 National Bank57,900174,4383.013131,700397,2543.016-73,800222,816
62 Haywood081,900247,2613.019-81,900247,261
66 Pope0100,000301,7503.018-100,000301,750
14 ITG2,0005,9202.96180,518533,8172.957-178,518527,897
74 GMP235,700703,0612.983518,8001,558,9213.005-283,100855,860
TOTAL1,707,4055,119,6092.9981,707,4055,119,6092.99800

http://www.centamin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/QuarterlyReport30Jun10.pdf

Recent Bulletins
Date ETSymbolPriceTypeHeadline
2010-09-15 06:52CEE2.54News ReleaseCentamin's Sukari at 9.1 million oz at 1.15 g/t Au P+P
2010-09-13 08:05CEE2.89News ReleaseCentamin Egypt lowers 2010 gold production forecast
2010-09-01 14:09CEE2.87SEDAR MD & ASEDAR MD & A
2010-09-01 14:03CEE2.87SEDAR Annual Information FormSEDAR Annual Information Form
2010-09-01 13:57CEE2.87SEDAR Audited Annual Financial StatementsSEDAR Audited Annual Financial Statements

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