"1848 and Beyond"
posted August 4, 2005

"An African Queen"
posted August 11, 2005

"Near Hit"
posted August 16, 2005

"Orko Gold"
posted August 18, 2005

"Mr. Smith Goes To Hungary"
posted September 1, 2005

"A Letter To
President Bush"

posted September 8, 2005

"Mr Clarke -
Call In The Boys"

posted September 12, 2005

"Orezone"
posted September 23, 2005

"U.S. Gold Corp."
posted September 29, 2005

"Mr. Prime Minister"
posted October 13, 2005

"The Business of Hungary is Business!"
posted October 31, 2005

"Then And Now"
posted November 9, 2005

"50 Relatives Worse Than Yours"
posted November 14, 2005

"Bunker Hunt-Silver-China"
posted November 28, 2005

"The Currency of Mass Destruction"
posted December 5, 2005

"Sonesta International Hotels Corporation"
posted December 29, 2005

"Northern Star Mining"

posted January 16, 2006

"Other People's Money -Enron & Martin Siegel, Esq."
posted January 28, 2006

"Your Money Is Not Yours"
-Enron & Martin Siegel, Esq.

posted February 9, 2006

"A Tribute to
Rudy Giuliani
"
posted February 15, 2006

"Interview with
Robert McEwen-
U.S. Gold Corporation
"

posted February 22, 2006

"Sparton Resources"
posted March 1, 2006

"Harvest Gold"
posted March 2, 2006

"Midway Gold
Corporation
"

posted March 23, 2006

"Pocketful Of
Miracles"

posted April 8, 2006

"J.P. Morgan Offers Advice To Ken Lay"
posted April 11, 2006

"The Principal Guest Was Missing"
posted April 25, 2006

"Ken Lay's Legacy"
posted May 8, 2006

"Gateway Gold:
It's A Gold Story"

posted May 15, 2006

"Northern Star
Mining Corp."

posted May 19, 2006

"I Am An Immigrant!"
posted June 7, 2006

"Oil & Gas
Energy Crisis Solution"

posted July 3, 2006

"Let There Be  Sunshine" -
Kirk Kerkorian

posted July 12, 2006

"The Age of Mediocrity"
posted July 19, 2006

"Silver In The
Twenty-First Century"

posted August 16, 2006

"Silver Wheaton - SLW"
posted August 28, 2006

"A Matter of Reasonable Doubt"
Ken Lay - Enron

posted August 30, 2006

"Brilliant Mining Corp."
posted September 17, 2006

"The Kennedy-Nixon debate revisited"
posted October 4, 2006

"The Arrival of the
Nickel Billionaires"

posted October 18, 2006

"Global Options
Group, Inc."

posted November 1, 2006

"This Year I'm Voting For Dick Nixon"
posted November 7, 2006

"Aero Mechanical Services, Ltd"
posted November 17, 2006

"Entrée Gold Inc."
posted December 13, 2006

"WisdomTree Investments, Inc."
posted December 26, 2006

"My Father Died In Auschwitz"
posted January 19, 2007

"Lexam Exploration, Inc."
posted February 11, 2007

"Robert Friedland -
The Man of The Year"

posted February 21, 2007

"Rubicon Minerals Corp."
posted March 1, 2007

"Warren Buffett - Franklin Roosevelt"
posted March 15, 2007

"Golden Valley Mines, Ltd"
posted April 21, 2007

"Brilliant Mining Corp."
posted May 22, 2007

"Bayswater Uranium Corp."
posted May 30, 2007

"Ghengis Kahn Was Hungarian"
posted May 31, 2007

"Portal Resources"
posted June 12, 2007

"Aldershot Resources Ltd."
posted July 16, 2007

"Entrée Gold Inc."
Follow Up Report #1

posted July 24, 2007


"The Age of Special 'Corporate' Relationships"
posted August 23, 2007

"Interview with
David Hjerpe - Newmac Resources, Inc."

posted August 27, 2007

"Interview with
Jim Davis - President of Leeward Capital Corporation"

posted September 4, 2007

"Interview with Professor William Pfaffenberger - Torch River Resources"
posted September 22, 2007

"Ghengis Kahn Returns"
posted September 27, 2007

"Jasper Mining Corporation"
posted September 27, 2007

"Gold Indexed Bonds"
posted October 11, 2007

"Tagish Lake Gold Corp."
posted November 1, 2007

"Stalin & Chavez"
posted November 9, 2007

"Sanj Bayar -
The Prime Minister of Mongolia"

posted November 15, 2007

"The Mongolian Wakeup Call"
posted November 16, 2007

"Watergate Saved Nixon's Life"
posted November 28, 2007

"No More Munich -
The Mongolian Version of 1938"

posted December 11, 2007

"Sir, Do Not Abdicate"
posted December 27, 2007

"Mongolian Gold"
posted January 8, 2008

"The Unexpected
Mongolian Dilemma"

posted February 2, 2008

 

Andrew Racz  

Articles by Andrew Racz 

BERAL, INC.  
Andrew G. Racz  
Director of Research
 
300 East 54 Street, Suite 26C  
New York, New York 10022  
Telephone: (212) 319-6949  
Fax: (212) 753-1944
 

 E-mail: mlikar@aol.com   

 

 

February 11, 2008

 

  ENTRÉE GOLD, INC.

EGI - AMEX - $2.05
ETG - TSX - $2.15
                 
(AMEX)  
Price:
$2.05
52-Week Price Range:
$1.50 - $3.70
 

Current assets:
$65 Million
Current liabilities:
$0.4 Million
Stockholders equity:
$65 Million
Shares outstanding:
93,937,000
Options outstanding:
8,855,000
Average exercise price:
$1.50

This memo is a recommendation to the possible future of Entrée Gold.
It is based on facts; the analysis is a futuristic calculation.


MINERAL PROPERTY INTERESTS

Title to mineral property interests involves certain inherent risks due to the difficulties of determining the validity of certain claims as well as the potential for problems arising from the frequently ambiguous conveyancing history characteristic of many mineral property interests. The Company has investigated title to its mineral property interests and, to the best of its knowledge, title to the mineral property interests are in good standing.

 

In October 2004, the Company granted to Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. ("Ivanhoe") the right to earn, over an eight-year period, a participating interest in a certain portion of its Lookout Hill Property (the "Project Property"). Under the agreement, Ivanhoe must spend a minimum of $3 million in order to earn surface rights in the Project Property and a minimum of $20 million in order to earn any mineral rights interest in the project. Thereafter, the Company has the right to require Ivanhoe to fund its share of subsequent project costs through to production, to be recovered from production cash flow. The agreement with Ivanhoe also provides for Ivanhoe to subscribe for 4,600,000 units of the Company at a price of C$1.00 per unit (completed in November 2004). In October 2007, the Company has received notice from Ivanhoe that it has incurred the required expenditures (US$20 million), giving it the right to form a 51%-49% joint venture. Ivanhoe has indicated to the Company that it will not be forming a joint venture at this time, but will continue to spend to earn a higher percentage interest.

 

This recommendation is only valid for today while the Mongolian crisis lasts and while the price of gold is around $900 or higher.

 

There is no doubt that the election of Sen. Hillary Clinton is a strong plus.

 

Let us now look at the world EGI is currently deposited. We have the Chinese, Aluminum Corp. of China, Alcoa, BHP, Rio, Ivanhoe—EGI. One very important positive about EGI is that nobody has ever said anything derogatory about the Company, to our knowledge.

 

However, and I am quoting from the daily papers, we are there. We represent a company, a stock, a piece of land. The first assets we have that nobody has ever said anything derogatory of EGI.

 

In the midst of the greatest financial turmoil among mineral companies, EGI is often mentioned for the simple reason that "we are there." Not only "we are there," "we are unique."

 

What is the good story?  Is there a story?

 

We have less than 100 million shares, the market cap of 200 million, a piece of land in a faraway country whose value carries some magic numbers, some other exploration projects, a solid board, $68 million cash, and commendable staff with vast experience in mining.

 

We have a vice chairman whose country once ruled the seas (quote from Gen. de Gaulle, June 14, 1940).

 

In the midst of this international fight for assets nobody bid for EGI but nobody knocked EGI.

 

Let's start with the latter event, since it'll easily be more important to the two companies' respective futures. Hours before an effective paint-or-get-off-the ladder deadline, BHP offered 3.4 of its share for every one of Rio Tinto's. That's up from an earlier three-for-one proposal and was worth more than $147 billion, based on BHP's Monday's closing price.

 

Apparently, BHP didn't view the recent purchase of a 12% stake in Rio Tinto by Alco (NYSE:AA) and state-owned Aluminum Corp. of China (NYSE: ACH), or Chinalco, as a deal breaker. Nevertheless, metals customers in China, Japan, and elsewhere have expressed concern about a combination of the world's largest and third-largest mining companies. Brazil's Vale (NYSE: RIO) currently sits between the pair as the second largest. For its part, Rio Tinto continues to spurn BHP's advances, saying that its plans would change only with an offer that "fully reflects the value of Rio Tinto."

On the earnings front, BHP's biannual results were generally sound, while "attributable profit" dipped to $6.0 billion, from $6.2 billion, on a softer U.S. dollar and higher costs. Perhaps more importantly, as the company noted, "We achieved record or equal record production for seven major commodities and significantly increased production across a further six commodities."

So BHP has intensified the Rio Tinto chase, although the "chasee" is still playing hard to get. My bet is that the pursuer will ultimately land the pursued—albeit, at an even higher price—creating a massive and globally dominant entity. For that reason, I urge Fools to keep an eye on developments and perhaps nibble away at a BHP position. Even if Rio evades BHP's clutches, you'll still be part owner of a huge company that's right in the middle of the world's escalating demand for natural resources.


There is an underlying trend unspoken in London, New York, Toronto but may not be for long in Hong Kong or Shanghai—a trend to monetize gold.
             


According to a colleague, Phillip Gotthelf, the author of precious metal trading, the torch has been passed from those who believe that gold as a metal will hit $1,000 but inevitably march $2,000 as a monetary currency.

 

In the next 15 years, where the majority of the board members of EGI will still be around, one will see as many different gold-related investment vehicles as one sees today in mortgaged-backed securities, CDOs, sub-prime and other collapsing mortgage-backed securities.


Drexel's junk bonds
$500B loss
Sub-prime
$250B loss
Gold-backed bonds
A class for the future

 

I was 7 years old when I learned to respect my father, an attorney in Budapest, 60-years-old in 1945, when he was active on the Black Market in the daily business of Swiss franc and gold. I learned early, in gold we trust.

 

The sub-prime crisis accelerated among investors and traders. Barrick Gold and U.S. gold are here to stay, but the Florida condos will be passed from domestic to international ownership at a 50% discount.

 

Actually, when the government of the United States, when the treasury understands the difference between sub-prime and gold, gold will march inevitably to the $2,000 mark.

 

 

There is an opportunity for EGI to take advantage of the current turmoil.


  1. Yes, Mr. Crowe, there is going to be a gold index market.

  2. When your stock is $2.00 you can form a unit priced at $2.50 consisting of stock and a warrant exercisable at $2.75, and package it in such a way that the exercise price of the stock and the warrant will drop 5 cents whenever gold goes up $5.00. We can start with the $900 gold price.

  3. Obviously we have to draw a line and the regression analysis stops when the exercise price drops to $2.00. We take it for granted that if gold goes to $950 per ounce, the value of the stock would go to $2.50; therefore the profit potential for the unit holder will be there. This is only a concept. The numbers can be changed.

  4. We should raise with such gold-backed bonds $100 million.

  5. Look at the pro forma picture. Entrée Gold will own a valuable piece of real estate in Mongolia whose value goes up every day with the price of gold and sooner or later Neville Chamberlain will not be able to say that Entrée's real estate in the Ivanhoe Group is a piece of real estate about which we know nothing.

 

Take that piece of land to be worth $400 million. Add to it $170 million cash. This is $500 plus per share.

 

We have the same management. We will still have the British Navy and the world around us, with the Chinese, with BHP, with Rio, with a signed finance agreement with the Mongolian government, and in the middle of all this the Lilliput from Vancouver.

 

Every securities analyst, every commentator will discover EGI and an opinion will emerge that they have done everything right.

 

My contacts in London would be more than happy to talk to Entrée.

 

We should do nothing else. Raise the $100 million and raise it fast.

 

The turmoil around us is so big that we have absolutely no power to influence the winds.

 

But here we are, the Lilliput, the team player. When everything is settled around us we can start formulating the future but until then we should play a modest role in the biggest turmoil of mineral history.

 

Come to think of it, what was wrong in the 20th century to be in Switzerland?

 

 

Andrew Racz

 



(Article 75 - posted February 11, 2008)

 

 

 

 

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