{"id":686857,"date":"2010-03-09T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:405214"},"modified":"2010-03-09T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T15:51:00","slug":"pdac-2010-guess-the-gold-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/686857","title":{"rendered":"PDAC 2010: Guess the gold price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spmedia.canada.com\/gallery\/00oposted\/goldbars2_getty.jpg?w=475\"  alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It may be a bit of a cliche, but why mess with a classic? Here&#39;s the results of the Financial Post&#39;s Annual (sort of) gold price guessing game, conducted Monday.<\/p>\n<p>We asked 14 gold companies at PDAC to give their best guess for the price of gold in a year. The average of all the guesses came in at $1,443.58 (all prices U.S.).<\/p>\n<p>The highest figure came from Capital Gold Corp., which guessed $2,000. The lowest was from Northern Freegold Resources, at $1,100.<\/p>\n<p>The spot price at the time of the quiz was $1,122. <\/p>\n<p>The winner, unfortunately, gets nothing but our admiration. And yes, this reporter was asked more than once how much that was worth on the open market.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s the full results: <\/p>\n<p>Tradewinds Venture Inc. $1,250 <br \/>Brazilian Gold $1,200 <br \/>Crescent Gold Ltd. $1,550 <br \/>Vault Minerals $1,327.18 <br \/>Olympus Pacific Minerals $1,650 <br \/>Linear Gold Corp. $1,700 <br \/>Capital Gold Corp. $2,000 <br \/>Rand Gold Res. $1,500 <br \/>Wits Gold $1,500 <br \/>Aurizon Mines Ltd. $1,533 <br \/>Rainy River Res. $1,200 <br \/>Northern Freegold Res. $1,100 <br \/>Golden Band Res. $1,400 <br \/>Acadian Mining Corp. $1,300 <\/p>\n<p><i>Eric Lam <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>(Photo by Getty Images) <\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=405214\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It may be a bit of a cliche, but why mess with a classic? Here&#39;s the results of the Financial Post&#39;s Annual (sort of) gold price guessing game, conducted Monday. We asked 14 gold companies at PDAC to give their best guess for the price of gold in a year. The average of all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2573,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2SGl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}