When I heard Romarco Minerals's (R.V) CFO say that R.V would probably be the only USA gold mine to go into production in the next 3 or 4 years, I was amazed. So I asked Dave Webb how many would start in Canada.

To come up with a better answer, Dave, in turn asked a highly respected Canadian mining analyst how many new, or nearly new producers will there be for 2009-2010.

Here is the list of eleven that Dave and the analyst came up with:

Apollo Gold’s Black Fox

Agnico’s Meadowbank

Great Basin Gold

Alexis Minerals

San Gold

Lakeshore Gold

Anatolia

Queenston Mining

Minefinders

Western Goldfields

Centamin Eygpt

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