"I'm sure we'll lose a few banks here and there."

According to Michael Fowler, senior mining analyst with Loewen, Ondaatje & McCutcheon, the major gold producers have gorged on debt and sold off their seed corn.

Investing in mining equities can get rather complicated but Heiko Ihle, managing director at H.C. Wainwright & Co., says precious metals equity investors need to focus on just three criteria: jurisdiction, management and asset viability.

So where do investors go looking for returns? Eric Coffin suggests gold, both bullion and stocks.

In this interview with The Gold Report Stewart identifies low-cost, high-grade miners, several of which are likely to excite interest from cashed-up suitors.

Gold-tracker Thibaut Lepouttre treks the world hunting for solid gold mines and companies with the guts to dig for riches.

Radisson Mining Resources Inc. knows what it is—a small gold exploration company with aims of becoming a small gold producer inside 28 months.

The January Effect, the surge that small-cap companies may experience at the beginning of the year, goes back some seven decades.

In this interview with The Gold Report, find out what Cook expects for gold exploration in 2015, and why the next few years are going to be very interesting indeed for yellow metal miners.

As natural resource investors take stock of their 2014 portfolio shifts and make adjustments for 2015, The Gold Report quizzed top experts in the sector on what resolutions they are making and—perhaps more important—what steps they are taking to make sure they stick to the hard choices they have made.

In Australia, when companies want to cut costs, they hire what are known as "toe cutters." These managers root out inefficiency and drive profitability.

Some of the most popular experts featured during the year and some thoughts you might want to consider as you prepare for 2015.