Amid a chorus of gold mining pundits yelling for investors to snap up cheap gold equities is Ian McAvity, a 50-year veteran of the markets, telling investors to wait.

Gold stocks may have been underperforming investor expectations for many months, but that could be changing very soon.

Gareth Hatch, co-founder of Technology Metals Research LLC, gives us the lay of the land in the rare earth sector. Many variables […]

Every investor knows that it's hard to time the market.

Thom Calandra, a long-time journalist and mining investor, knows what risks to stomach in search of jaw-dropping returns.

After a big spike up and an overdue correction in the gold price, Adrian Day, chairman and CEO of Adrian Day Asset Management, says that the king of metals is settling back into the steady rise in price that we've grown accustomed to over the past several years.

In the high-risk junior resource sector, 95% of the companies investors might choose will fail to hit paydirt.

Michael O'Brian has learned to apply some philosophies as an avid art collector to his successful investment career: an investor should always be in it for the long term.

Junior gold explorers from British Columbia to Colombia are poised to pounce. And they are not your ordinary explorers.

Investments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo often get dinged with an "exotic locale" discount, but the jurisdiction is much less risky than even a few years ago.

Graphite and vanadium may be relatively obscure materials, but these commodities could get a jolt from developing battery technology.

The end of 2011 is a golden opportunity to participate in an anticipated upside for mining equities, says Tocqueville Asset Management Senior Managing Director John Hathaway.