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Louis James on 'Best of the Best' Metal Miners

Anybody who claims to be an expert on mining stocks and then does not mention Jaguar Mining (JAG) as best of breed loses my faith in their credibility.

Jaguar Mining is on track to increase production 700 to 1000% by 2014. And they just found more gold! Below is yesterday's (11/19) 2009 drilling update taken from Jaguar Mining's corporate website. Very successful results. Here is the proof:

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HUI: The Gold Industry's Elite

Thank you! This is by far the most informative article on gold miners I have read to date. I read all Seeking Alpha columns on gold everyday, as well as on other sites. I don't even know how many articles I've read (plus all corresponding posts) over the past six months.

I don't write the above compliment lightly. But again, this without a doubt the best.

I'm rather suprised that Jaguar Mining is not on your list. I also suspect, sometime down the line, that Northern Dynasties will be up for HUI consideration in a couple of years.

The next level of investigation is for me to better understand is hedging, as so little is written about it, and is not readily available on corporate websites. Further, there's been a lot of fund raising through offerings, and likely more to come that dilute shares.

What I would like to know to whomever is the author of this column is do your reports show the above, as well as cash burn, long term debt obligations?

Can't believe there are so few comments!

Thanks again for the fine article!

Why Gold Miners Aren't Glittering

If you were to read the latest transcripts for most miners, they pretty much all under"guess"timate what they will be able to sell an ounce of gold for during this quarter, and throughout the rest of this year. None that I have read have gold above $850 an ounce.

Further, their balance sheets reflect much higher energy costs than they will have to endure this year.

If gold, say for arguments sake, hangs around the $1000/ounce for the remainder of the year, just the cost savings in energy will make the balance sheets have the luster of, well...gold!

This article seems to occlude this very important point.

UBS: Bullish on Gold and Silver

Jimko: Bingo! The whole sector's up, way up! Many mining stocks since November 19th are up over 100 percent! I have some that are up way over 100%!

Where else can someone find that in this crazy market!

And I would not sell a share to "take profits."

Check out miningnerds.com if you already haven't. The site's clunky and in Canadian dollars, but what you can do with it to compare mining stocks is pretty cool.