Topic: How To Invest

Dear Sir: A few months ago a friend suggested a stock called Mustang Minerals. It was trading at around $0.11 to $0.12 a share…then overnight a few weeks ago it shot up. Can you tell us anything about this stock and whether it is recommended to purchase? Thank you.

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Mustang Minerals, $0.25, symbol MUM on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 157.2 million; Market cap: $38.5 million; www.mustangminerals.com), is a mineral-exploration company with two open-pit deposits in southeastern Manitoba: the Makwa project and the Mayville project (which is about 35 kilometres by road from Makwa). The company’s main prospect is the Makwa property, which is 150 kilometres from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Falconbridge used to own Makwa, but abandoned the property when nickel prices dropped in the late 1990s. Mustang Minerals bought 100% of the property in 2004. Makwa already has a defined mineral resource, including two ore bodies that produced nickel in the 1970s. In 2008, the company completed a positive prefeasibility study on Makwa. It’s now proceeding with a full feasibility study to see if a mine would be profitable on the site. Mustang’s shares shot up from about $0.12 in late March to as high as $0.52 in mid-April. That’s when it announced that it had found an additional platinum and…