{"id":805,"date":"2012-12-12T08:02:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T13:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juniorminingnews.com\/?p=805"},"modified":"2012-12-12T08:02:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T13:02:35","slug":"pershing-gold-ends-2012-on-high-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"Pershing Gold ends 2012 on high note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Peter Epstein<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Seeking Alpha<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-808\" title=\"pers160\" src=\"http:\/\/www.juniorminingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/pers160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"217\" \/>Since my initial article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pershinggold.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pershing Gold<\/a>, significant de-risking has taken place, yet the share price is largely unchanged. Recent events make it clear that Executive Chairman &amp; CEO Stephen Alfers continues to execute the company&#8217;s aggressive strategy.<\/p>\n<p>On November 26th, Alfers announced two enhancements to his team. Alex Morrison joined the Board. Mr. Morrison is a mining expert, chartered accountant and CPA with over 26 years of experience. He currently serves on the Boards of Detour Gold and Taseko Mines. Mr. Morrison served as VP &amp; CFO of Franco-Nevada, from 2007 to 2010.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the company designated Eric Alexander, Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer. These moves mark a significant milestone. By beefing up Pershing&#8217;s team, Alfers demonstrated his confidence in near-term production.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/1059441-pershing-gold-exiting-2012-on-a-high-note\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article . . .<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Pershing Gold, significant de-risking has taken place, yet the share price is largely unchanged. Recent events make it clear that Executive Chairman &#038; CEO Stephen Alfers continues to execute the company&#8217;s aggressive strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-nevada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}