Large mining companies are selling off some of their prized assets after the prolonged global commodities markets rout left some with high levels of debt.
"In an environment of rising event risk, sub-zero interest rates and now the potential of rising inflation gold and silver should continue to prosper."
The drill bit is essential to junior mining companies. Only through active exploration can investors separate the companies with potential from those without.
It wasn't so long ago that some of the more famous investor gurus were shrugging off gold as nothing more than shiny trinkets with no investment value. They were wrong.