Newmont and a Road Map for Senior Gold Miners

Newmont Mining (ticker: NEM) is a fairly boring senior blue chip producer that is a favorite of institutional investors and has "high visibility" in the Gold sector. Newmont eked out a new closing high stock price for 2009 on Friday, and like a few other more senior Gold mining stocks (e.g., ABX, RGLD, GOLD), is suggesting this portion of the Gold sector is going to move higher.

Below is a proposed long-term Elliott Wave-type road map of Newmont mining, a good proxy for the senior Gold mining sector (11 year log scale monthly candlestick chart thru Friday's close):



I think Newmont will target its all time highs from January, 2006 and may or may not surpass them for this current intermediate-term bull move. If I owned this stock (I don't), I would be holding on until we get to these highs. Once we get there, I don't know what will happen, but I think we'll get there or higher by May, 2010 (regardless of what the general stock market does).

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