Profiting from high gold and silver prices

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NEW GOLD $6.60 (Toronto symbol NGD; SI Rating: Speculative) (888-315-9715; www.newgold.com; Shares outstanding: 389.6 million; Market cap: $2.6 billion) has three operating mines: the Mesquite mine in the U.S., the Cerro San Pedro mine in Mexico and the Peak mine in Australia. It also owns 30% of the El Morro copper/gold project in Chile and 100% of the New Afton gold/copper project in Kamloops, B.C. The El Morro copper/gold project contains an estimated 4.7 million ounces of gold and 3.7 billion pounds of copper. Goldcorp owns the other 70%. New Gold expects to produce a total of 330,000 to 360,000 ounces of gold this year. Production will probably rise to over 400,000 ounces in 2012, when its New Afton mine is scheduled to start up. New Gold reported cash flow of $0.07 a share in the three months ended March 31, 2010. That’s up from $0.06 a share a year earlier. (All figures except share price and market cap in U.S. dollars.) New…