Topic: How To Invest

Hello Pat. Before I ask my question, I just want to thank you and your team for the exceptional ongoing advice which you have provided through your services. I was wondering what your analysis and advice would be on a company called North American Palladium. Is it a buy at this time? Thanks again!

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North American Palladium, $5.80, symbol PDL on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 148.8 million; Market cap: $863.1 million, www.napalladium.com), runs the Lac des Iles palladium mine near Thunder Bay. This mine produces about 130,000 ounces of palladium per year, but it could reach 250,000 ounces when production at the high-grade offset zone starts in late 2012. North American Palladium also operates the Sleeping Giant gold mine in the Abitibi region of western Quebec. This mine continues to experience difficulties, mostly because of low production and high costs. However, the company expects to finish deepening the mine shaft in the first half of 2011. North American Palladium is hoping that will help push Sleeping Giant’s production up to historic levels of about 55,000 ounces per year. In the three months ended September 30, 2010, the company earned $3.2 million, or $0.02 a share, on revenue of $38.5 million. North American Palladium restarted the Lac des Iles mine in May 2010, so there are no comparable…