I seem to remember being told by people on this board that large gold producers don't give 1/4 by 1/4 updates as their shareholders know to wait for the quarterly financial statements. Seems that attitudes have changed.

Goldcorp to Release 2008 Fourth Quarter Results on February 19th

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, January 12, 2009 – GOLDCORP INC. (TSX: G; NYSE: GG) will release fourth quarter results before market open on Thursday February 19th, 2009.

A conference call will be held Thursday February 19th at 10:00 a.m. (PT) to discuss these results.

Goldcorp Achieves Record Quarterly Gold Production; Forecasts Five Year Gold Production Growth of 50%

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, JANUARY 8, 2009 – GOLDCORP INC. (TSX: G, NYSE: GG) today announced record fourth quarter gold production of 692,000 ounces. Gold production for the 2008 year exceeded 2.3 million ounces, meeting previously issued guidance.

And

Yamana Gold issues Production Update For Q4 - Quick Facts

1/12/2009 6:39 PM ET

(RTTNews) - Yamana Gold Inc. (AUY:News , YRI.TO, YAU.L) said that total production during the fourth quarter was about 255,000 GEO at cash costs on a co-product basis is estimated to be about $385 per GEO which compares very favourably to costs in the third quarter of 2008.

Gold production is expected to be in the range of 1.3 million to 1.4 million gold equivalent ounces or GEO in 2009. Production is projected to increase to approximately 1.4 million to 1.5 million GEO in 2010 from mines currently in production.

In Dundee's Oct 27/08 report they were anticipating a new resource estimate in a few weeks.

TD is expecting preliminary resource estimates on the hinge in January, will SGR disappoint again?

A few months ago I really thought that there was a change in how SGR managed their deadlines and disseminated info to shareholders. So far it's business as usual.

Cheers