When you decide you want to invest in gold resource and gold mining companies, where are you going to get your information and your investment recommendations? Call your friendly neighborhood stock broker?
The typical retail stock broker is a joke at best, a scam at worst (IMHO). If they are brand new and know nothing, they won’t tell you that or you would ask for someone else. He has to cut his teeth on someone, right?
And the brokerage house will only recommend a company after it has already made its move so you buy at the top. When it drops about 50% they will mark it a “hold”. After it falls about 90% they will take it from “hold” to “sell”. Yippee, skippee.
So where are you going to learn what gold mining companies to buy and from what parts of the world make the best resource stock investments? My choice for you would be Casey Research, and you can get an idea why by reading this article from Jeff Clark.
Sooner or Later, You’ll Invest Abroad
Jeff Clark, Editor of Casey’s Gold & Resource Report
Many conventional U.S. brokers are relatively clueless when it comes to gold stocks. If you asked them to name one, chances are it would be a domestic producer, one with assets located primarily in North America. But that’s not where the big money will be made over the next decade.
To start, here’s something that will make you better informed than the typical traditional broker: take a look at where gold is currently being dug up around the world.
Tally it up, and North America accounts for only 16.3% of total global gold production. In other words, 83.7% of all the new gold every year comes from outside our continent.
Further, of the 15 largest gold deposits in the world, only five are in the U.S., Canada, or Mexico. Meaning, two-thirds are in regions where you don’t get cell phone coverage and the natives don’t speak your language.
The picture gets even sharper when you see the regions where production is increasing, vs. areas where it’s declining.
Several countries where gold has been traditionally mined, such as South Africa, Australia, and the U.S., are suffering production declines, while other areas, like China and South America, are just now starting to rev up.
In other words, not only is more gold being dug up outside our borders, more is being found there, too.
This has obvious implications for the gold stock investor who recognizes that the momentum is clearly behind the emerging countries. One geologist told me that some of these prospects are like Nevada was 100 years ago; wide open and full of gold deposits just waiting to be discovered.
Yes, there is risk, but the political winds are shifting in a more pro-mining direction here as well. In the U.S., for example, some members of Congress continue to promote a bill that could dramatically harm mining in the states, while China and many parts of South America are opening their doors to foreign companies. What would you rather invest in – a country trying to woo your investment dollars or one that is scheming to find new ways to take more of them away from you?
Gaia the Earth Goddess didn’t ask where we wanted our gold and silver deposited. And it is the underexplored – and in some cases the unexplored – regions that offer the most potential for new discoveries, greater production, and thus, higher investment returns.
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