{"id":337,"date":"2010-09-05T12:57:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T01:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/andean-gold-gets-hearts-racing-bidding-war-has-started\/"},"modified":"2010-09-05T12:57:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T01:57:26","slug":"andean-gold-gets-hearts-racing-bidding-war-has-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/andean-gold-gets-hearts-racing-bidding-war-has-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Andean Gold gets hearts racing: Bidding war has started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Literally a wall of commentary in the Australian and Canadian press over the erupting bidding war over Andean Resources ASX: AND TSX: AND. AND soared somewhere between 30 &#8211; 40% depending on whether you are looking at the close of the ASX or the bid put in by Goldcorp.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.australian-shares.com\/mining\/AND\">AND<\/a> has the world&#8217;s cheapest production costs predicted and a lot of exploration upside.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/andean-announces-richest-gold-grades-sets-a-new-benchmark\/\"> See earlier posts on AND on this Australian Gold Blog.<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nWhat a lovely time to have a holding&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>AND was Australia&#8217;s second largest by Mkt Cap gold company following the successful merger of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australian-shares.com\/mining\/LGL\">Lhir <\/a>(:LGL) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australian-shares.com\/mining\/NCM\">Newcrest<\/a> (NCM.)<\/p>\n<p>Whilst I haven&#8217;t done the full research this leaves <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australian-shares.com\/mining\/KCN\">KCN <\/a>with a market cap of $1,066b as our second largest gold play by mkt cap in now what is a rapidly shrinking field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literally a wall of commentary in the Australian and Canadian press over the erupting bidding war over Andean Resources ASX: AND TSX: AND. AND soared somewhere between 30 &#8211; 40% depending on whether you are looking at the close of the ASX or the bid put in by Goldcorp. AND has the world&#8217;s cheapest production [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gold-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}