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 [...]
Diversified resource and mining companies might nominally mine for a single metal, but in the process will also unearth other base and rare metals. Other metals producers, like BHP Billiton, actively mine for a variety of base and precious metals.
The following list covers the top 8 diversified resource mining companies around the world. I also [...]
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 [...]
So, you’e a cashflow investor. And you want to be a part of the commodities boom. The problem is that a lot of agriculture and resource stocks don’t pay dividends. Many of them can’t, I imagine, because they’re capital-heavy and need to reinvest all funds into their future projects because the [...]
I just wrote about what Peter Schiff has to say on the topic yet in his new book Bull Moves In Bear Markets.
In a previous post, I said that I thought the best way to invest in precious metals was to go through GoldMoney (read what I had to say about GoldMoney here). [...]
