http://www.kitco.com/charts/livegold.html

cheers GF.

Enough to make you want to slash your wrist,and it must be even worse for them that hold!
Why not check out VGM, somr prospects there methinks.(Vatukoula Gold Mines)

Been there CP and took profit when it seemed to`hang at .036p, learnt my lesson the last time I sold too early and not going back in at the mo.
edit. I hold POG, idiot that I am had lots of chances to sell at profit, but hoped drop was short lived. Only about 90p/share down at mo so here's hoping and fingers crossed no further down.,.

Plus 27p this am, at least thats kept Harry at bay......lol

Nothing goes down in a straight line (except Connaught)! Though unpopular with holders, I still expect sub 900p.

Questor share tip: Gold miner Petropavlovsk in danger of losing its shine
One of the most important tasks a company has to do is manage market expectations. Petropavlovsk has not done this.
By Garry White
Published: 7:00AM GMT 04 Nov 2010
Comment
Petropavlovsk has cut its production guidance Photo: ALAMY Petropavlovsk
903p -35

The best way to do this is to under promise and over deliver. Petropavlovsk, formerly Peter Hambro Mining, appears to have done the opposite.

Yet again, the company has cut its production forecast for the current year blaming the weather and a delay in the delivery of equipment.

"The delay in the delivery of major mining equipment, in combination with the extremely harsh weather and the challenges of handling a significant increase in mining operations at the Pioneer mine, caused a 30pc decrease in mining works during the first nine months of the year compared with the mining plan," the company said.

"The group did not have sufficient contingency in its mining plan for 2010 and a combination of several unforeseen external factors during the first nine months led to a deferral in the production schedule," it added.

As a result, 2010 full-year gold production will now be in the region of 510,000 to 530,000 ounces. The company said in August that it may miss its 670,000-ounce target by as much as 5pc, then, on October 7, that the group was "striving" to hit its full-year guidance.

Peter Hambro, the group's chairman, yesterday accepted Questor's strident criticism of the company's handling of this issue with humility. He said that Petropavlovsk had endured an "annus horribilis" but argued that the shortfall was caused by things outside the company's control.

The delay in the delivery of an important piece of mining equipment from a major supplier has caused a shortfall on the mining side, with a knock-on effect in its processing operations. He also said that new senior management at the Pioneer mine would be put in place and that the company had learnt a lot from the disappointments over the past few months.

However, it was not all negative. Third-quarter gold production of 138,300 ounces was 37pc higher than in the previous quarter. Gold production for the first nine months was 346,200 ounces, which means the group needs to produce about 174,000 ounces in the final three months of the year to meet the revised full-year target. The company will next give an update on production at the end of January.

Of course, the gold in the company's mine is still in the ground. It will be mined and sold eventually. However, Questor liked the company because of the low multiple on which it was trading. It was argued that, as production and results improved, the shares would then be re-rated and trade on a higher multiple. Unfortunately, the production problems and the handling of the issue have put paid to this for now.

The City can be very unforgiving after something like this, so Petropavlovsk cannot put a foot wrong next year and must prove itself to the market once again.

Questor had recommended buying the shares as high as 12.62 in June, before the production issue started to unravel, so investors who bought in at that level will be sitting on substantial losses. However, investors holding the shares can be reassured by the fact that these problems can be rectified with time and management effort.

The shares are trading on a December 2010 earnings multiple of 16, falling to 9.5 next year. However, it is likely the forecast will be trimmed and these multiples will move higher. The prospective yield is 0.2pc.

The shares were first tipped as a buy on July 21 last year at 626.2p and are up 44pc compared with a FTSE 100 up 28pc. The rating on the shares remains hold.

As the fundamentals haven't changed, I assume it's the $1400/oz gold price which is helping this?

as golds lost $40 in late/after trading expect the shine to be dulling down tommorrow!!

Up another 2.5% today! A bit unexpected.

This should be rebound time

Yes, but didn't expect it to bounce this much.

November 2010

43 Years of Stockmarket Experience writes...

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At some point in the future the Chinese will decline to further the funding of their main Currency competitor. The World however is currently not yet ready to trust the Renminbi. Until the time that it does we will continue to see Investors fly from Cash and cash denominated investments to hard Asset classes, i.e. Gold, Silver, etcetera. We are even seeing Oil creep closer to $100 barrel.

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The price of silver has also perked up significantly.It is now much more in tune with its historic ratio to gold of about 55 times.

Defies logic, imo. Up today for no apparent reason, when most other stocks (including gold miners) were down at the open!

merely a bounce off the 50(?) dma .... i'm out of these for now

Worth watching though as sub 900p would be a good entry point, imo.

I don't think that will happen,Harry.The way that I see it,after 8 consecutive days of falls,the most in 22 months(Jan 09) a bounce is on the cards. Especially with the price of gold having fallen by about $100 in the last little while.

This is getting creepy.......sold mine this morning cyners, made small profit but that will do, was hoping to see the 17 around xmas........not going to happen.,.

do the sirens call?
gold has now got to $1400 and POG sp has just peeked through 200 dma ..... a reasonable punt, or will it yet again prove to be a false dawn to be rudely shattered by yet another duff announcement or downgrade from the management

RIO, is not a true gold play, though it tends to react with the bullion price, and makes another interesting possibility

of the second-liners, i still happily hold CEY even though i top-sliced there the other day

there are of course a zillion "joke" stocks for the lemmings to bat around - a few will make a good profit (if they remember to bank it) while others will buy at the the top and stand goggle-eyed when they crash again

Damn. Missed the boat again! Was so busy watching other stocks, that this one has got away. Not a false dawn, imo.
Surely RRS is a better tracker of the gold price, though a very expensive stock? There are so many factors affecting RIO, as they are miners of just about everything, that I don't think that gold is a good guide. In fact, gold is a by product of their copper mining activities, as is sulphuric acid, molybdenum, silver and some borates.
Will be interesting to see the next production figures from POG.

H2SO4 is dirt cheap to produce, so worth diddlysquat, and for reasons with which i shan't bore you all, difficult to transport ..... i also thought it was used in the processing rather than being a by-product of the actual mining.

RRS
an interesting suggestion, though it is not a stock i have ever followed ..... however, i note sp dipped to touch the (starting to rise) 25 dma, so this could make a profitable trading opportunity