Amerigo is the better buy right now

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AMERIGO RESOURCES $0.34 (Toronto symbol ARG; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative) (604-681-2802; www.amerigoresources.com; Shares outstanding: 173.7 million; Market cap: $59.0 million; No dividends paid) processes copper and molybdenum from waste rock at Chile’s El Teniente, the world’s largest underground copper mine. This rock comes from the mine’s current production and tailings from the nearby Colihues deposit. This contract runs at least through 2037. Amerigo gets 94% of its revenue by processing copper. The remaining 6% comes from molybdenum. In the three months ended December 31, 2014, Amerigo’s copper production fell 7.4%, to 11.35 million pounds from 12.25 million a year earlier. Molybdenum output declined 11.8%, to 160,107 pounds from 181,464. Despite the lower production and a decline in copper prices, cash flow jumped 94.3%, to $5.4 million, or $0.031 a share, from $2.8 million, or $0.016 (all figures except share price in U.S. dollars). The company cut the cost of producing each pound of copper. Amerigo is moving ahead with plans to…