S&P raises gold and base metals price assumptions for 2011

With a personal investment of $225 million on the line, much is at stake for Rob McEwen with the success of McEwen Copper’s flagship Los Azules project in Argentina.

The Chuquicamata mine, located in northern Chile, is one of the largest open-pit copper mines.

Gold’s outlook and fundamentals remain really bullish.

The miner's output was 3% lower than expected.