Options Brief: Allied Nevada Gold Corp.

Shares of Allied Nevada Gold Corp. ANV are higher on the session by 6.28%, trading at $34.85. Overall put volume is now running at 6.91x the daily average, with 2% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 3,644 contracts have traded on the session so far. Allied Nevada Gold Corp. is a mining and exploration company, which produces gold as a primary product and silver as a by-product.