There are not many large-cap or mid-cap mining companies that expressly focus on silver production alone. Much silver production comes about as a byproduct of gold mining. Thus it is likely that even strictly pure-gold producers will come up with some trace amounts of silver, too.
This post lists the large-cap Canadian companies that either declare [...]
September 4, 2009 · 16 comments
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September and October are traditionally weak months in the stock market, but it is the “September Effect” that fears professional and technical traders the most. Yesterday (September 3, 2009) gold prices jumped up 17% per ounce in gold trading, closing near the key psychological resistance point of $996/oz. No surprises here, perhaps as the last [...]
For further research on the silver industry, you should check out the Silver Institute. It’s by far one of the best online resources for news and background to the industry. A quick look at some of the information you can find there:
(1) History of Silver
(2) Silver’s Chemical Properties
(3) The Current Silver Market
(4) Uses for Silver
(5) [...]
In a previous post I said I’d talk about some of the smaller silver mining companies. Here they are. It’s just a quick list to get you started on your own research. These are some of the companies that interested me. They’re all silver-focused and interestingly, they’re almost all Canadian-based. You’ll see that many of [...]
With the growing concern over the future of the US dollar, and global inflation more generally, owning physical gold and silver is a wise insurance move. Owning gold stocks can be part of that strategy, as they soared during times like the Great Depression. Here’s a quick compilation of some basic starting points for those [...]
