Peak Gold is Still a Buy

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PEAK GOLD $0.75 (Toronto symbol PIK; SI Rating: Speculative) (604-681-2802; www.peakgold.com; Shares outstanding: 558.1 million; Market cap: $418.6 6 million) has agreed to merge with Metallica Resources, symbol MR on Toronto, and with New Gold, symbol NGD on Toronto. The new company — to be called New Gold — will have a market cap of $1.6 billion. It expects to produce 297,000 ounces of gold in 2008 and 350,000 ounces in 2009. Shareholders of Peak Gold will receive 0.1 common shares of New Gold for each common share of Peak Gold held. The merged company will have $500 million in cash to expand production at Peak’s Amapari mine in Brazil, to develop Metallica’s El Moro mine in Chile and to develop New Gold’s Afton mine in British Columbia. Peak Gold is up 33.9% since we first recommended it in the March, 2008 issue of Stock Pickers Digest at $0.56. Peak Gold is still a buy. buy…