Topic: How To Invest

Good day, Pat: Your investment opinion on Detour Gold Corporation (TSX: DGC) would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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A: Detour Gold Corp., $31.10, symbol DGC on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 173.8 million; Market cap: $5.5 billion; www.detourgold.com), finished building its Detour Lake mine in northeastern Ontario in February 2013. It’s now operating the open-pit mine at full capacity. That site produced 505,558 ounces of gold in 2015. Detour continues to make improvements to the mine’s efficiency in order to boost output. The latest is an increase in conveyor capacity from 4,000 tonnes per operating hour to 5,000. That should push production up to between 540,000 and 570,000 ounces this year. The company will likely generate cash flow of $1.61 per share in 2016. Cash flow per share could rise to $2.29 in 2017. Over the mine’s remaining 23-year life, Detour expects its production to average 655,000 ounces a year. The company holds cash of $153.7 million, or $0.88 a share. Its long-term debt of $400.8 million is a low 7% of…