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Q: Pat: What do you think about the gold stock Detour Gold? Thanks in advance.

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A: Detour Gold Corp., $10.47, symbol DGC on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 174.9 million; Market cap: $1.9 billion; www.detourgold.com), finished building its Detour Lake mine in northeastern Ontario in February 2013. It now operates the open-pit mine at full capacity. The company expects the site’s production to average 656,000 ounces of gold annually over the course of the mine’s remaining 22 years. Detour continues to make efficiency improvements in order to boost output. As a result, in the three months ended March 31, 2018, gold production rose 4.7%, to 157,141 ounces from 150,046 a year earlier. Revenue in the quarter rose 23.0%, to $201.4 million from $163.7 million. (All figures except share price and market cap in U.S. dollars.) Excluding one-time items, earnings rose 5.2%, to $28.2 million, or $0.16 a share, from $26.8 million, or $0.15. The company now expects to report total production of between 595,000 and 635,000 ounces this year. It will likely generate cash flow of $1.64 U.S. per share…