CEY is a gold mining company operating in Egypt. It was ordered by the Egyptian Government to stop drilling pending a legal dispute brought against the company by a government minister.

Since then, the whole Government cabinet was replaced a few months ago and the minister now in charge of Mining is believed to be positive on Western investment in the country. CEY are pushing for this minister to allow them to continue drilling ASAP; investers are waiting....patiently.

As soon as the company gets the go-ahead to continue drilling, the share price will move north; CEY has plenty of gold in this mine and it is (apparantly) the case of "raking" it out rather than drilling for it!

Check them out...worthy of a punt.

As Chavez Pulls Venezuela's Gold From JP Morgan, Is The Great Scramble For Physical Starting?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/17/2011 16:27 -0400




In addition to the nationalization of his gold insutry, Chavez earlier also announced that he would recover virtually all gold that Venezuela hold abroad, starting with 99 tons of gold at the Bank of England. As the WSJ reported earlier, "The Bank of England recently received a request from the Venezuelan government about transferring the 99 tons of gold Venezuela holds in the bank back to Venezuela, said a person familiar with the matter. A spokesman from the Bank of England declined to comment whether Venezuela had any gold on deposit at the bank." That's great, but not really a gamechanger. After all the BOE should have said gold. What could well be a gamechanger is that according to an update from Bloomberg, Venezuela has gold with, you guessed it, JP Morgan, Barclays, and Bank Of Nova Scotia. As most know, JPM is one of the 5 vault banks. The fun begins if Chavez demands physical delivery of more than 10.6 tons of physical because as today's CME update of metal depository statistics, JPM only has 338,303 ounces of registered gold in storage. Or roughly 10.6 tons. A modest deposit of this size would cause some serious white hair at JPM as the bank scrambles to find the replacement gold, which has already been pledged about 100 times across the various paper markets. Keep an eye on gold in the illiquid after hour market. The overdue scramble for delivery may be about to begin.

From the CME:

Appointment of Joint Broker


Centamin is pleased to announce that it has appointed RBC Capital Markets as joint broker to the Company with immediate effect.

StockMarketWire.com
Centamin Egypt's pre-tax profits jumped to $104.3m in the six months to the end of June - up from $32.0m a year ago.

Revenues increased to $167.4m - up from $87.2m last time.

The group sold 113,502 ounces of gold in the period at an average price of $1,467 per oz compared with 66,378 oz at $1,308 per oz a year ago.

What might that have been(production/revenue)but for the following?

From Q2 RNS.

v Reduced blasting activities due to irregular issues of blast products by Blast Inspectors negatively impacted open pit and underground production, and as a result, gold production. The Company is confident issuing practices will return to normal in Q3.

..but the gold not mined/sold is now worth more :-)

That's true only if the gold price stays at these historicly high lrvels,which i dought?
Once the gold price settles down the market will see that the trend is up and will then revalue mining stock.

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kernow - but not as much as it was last week! :-)

Catherine Raw, the co-manager of BlackRock's World Mining fund, said recent periods of risk aversion from shares had been acting as a drag on gold-mining equities.

"Interest in gold shares has been growing in the wake of the financial crisis, with mining shares doing better in Asia," she said. "This shows the disconnect between how the West looks at the market and how the rest of the world does."

Many believe that gold shares offer better value than bullion itself. Gold equity valuations are in historically low ranges but earnings growth on the back of higher gold prices and rising dividends could be the catalysts to send the share prices of these companies higher.

If so, the current weakness in gold-related shares represents a smart money-making "arbitrage" opportunity.

CEY

Good to see short positions dropping very fastly...........

CEY

Good to see short positions dropping very fastly...........

HGM

Shorters virtually nil now, nice.

Can't be far away from elections in Egypt? Once that issue is settled (to the satisfaction of all) then CEY should see an almighty bounce, imo.

By November according to the FT.

Brokers fully behind CEY now. The stock looks far too cheap on a prospective P/E of just over 9 going into 2012. Derd cheap.

Centamin Egypt Ltd

FORECASTS 2011 2012
Date Rec Pre-tax () EPS (p) DPS (p) Pre-tax () EPS (p) DPS (p)

Evolution Securities Ltd
30-08-11 ADD 88.91 8.23 95.36 8.85
Investec Securities
15-08-11 BUY 108.36 9.89 125.86 11.49
Westhouse Securities
04-08-11 BUY 11.60 13.80
Numis Securities Ltd
03-08-11 BUY 107.38 9.82 125.79 11.66
Broker Name Withheld 3
02-08-11 BUY 89.80 8.24 111.94 10.21
Fairfax IS
05-05-11 BUY
Canaccord Genuity Ltd
21-04-11 BUY 12.80 19.50

2011 2012
Pre-tax () EPS (p) DPS (p) Pre-tax () EPS (p) DPS (p)

Consensus 98.53 9.76 114.41 11.73
1 Month Change -13.28 -0.97 -9.90 -0.89
3 Month Change -28.49 -2.15 -18.87 -2.45


GROWTH
2010 (A) 2011 (E) 2012 (E)
Norm. EPS 399.87% 149.25% 20.17%
DPS % % %

INVESTMENT RATIOS
2010 (A) 2011 (E) 2012 (E)

EBITDA 67.40m 122.79m 146.10m
EBIT 40.60m 98.00m 116.74m
Dividend Yield 0.00% % %
Dividend Cover x x x
PER 27.12x 10.88x 9.05x
PEG 0.07f 0.07f 0.45f
Net Asset Value PS 26.64p p p

http://www.investegate.co.uk/Article.aspx?id=201109200700125487O

3rd Quarter Preliminary Production Results

Centamin Egypt Limited is pleased to announce its preliminary production results from its Sukari Gold Project in Egypt for the quarter ended 30 September 2011.

Total gold production for the quarter was 50,539 ounces, a 67% increase from the corresponding quarter last year and a 5% increase on the previous quarter's production. The resultant gold production was underpinned by record quarterly throughput in the Sukari process plant of 964kt (59% higher than the corresponding quarter last year and 13% higher than the previous quarter), as the ramp up to higher production rates progressed post-Stage 3 commissioning.

Open pit and underground production rates returned to budgeted production rates with the resumption of regular delivery and issuing of blasting products for the mine in late July. The open pit delivered greater than 2.2Mt per month material movement for both August and September (compared with 1.2Mt in July) and underground ore production for the quarter increased to 58,000t (up 35% on Q2 2011). With higher material movements from the open pit, the run of mine ore stockpile balance increased by 168kt to 456kt by the end of the quarter.

Looks like the political uncertainty is due to continue for a while though, which has historically kept the CEY sp depressed.

politicaly to risky sell .turning into enough iran .

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