Newmont is the better Resource buy

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NEWMONT MINING CORP. $30 (New York symbol NEM; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 533.4 million; Market cap: $16.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.2; Dividend yield: 1.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.newmont.com) is one of the world’s largest gold and copper producers. The company’s mines are in North America, South America, Australia and Africa. Newmont continues to open additional mines and expand existing properties. It’s also using acquisitions to expand. It recently agreed to buy 50% of the Galore Creek gold/copper deposit in B.C. for $275 million; Teck Resources Ltd. (Toronto symbol TECK.B) owns the other 50%. They are are now studying the feasibility of building a mine. Meantime, the company produced 1.16 million ounces of gold in the three months ended June 30, 2018. That’s down 14.1% from the 1.35 million ounces Newmont produced a year earlier. The drop is partly due to lower grade ores at the company’s North American mines. If you exclude unusual items, Newmont’s earnings in the quarter fell 43.5%, to…