Jay Taylor: Turning Hard Times Into Good Times
A Smarter Way to Invest in Gold Stocks?
Jay Taylor, miningstocks.com, interviews Frank Holmes, Michael Oliver & Ralph Fitch of Trimetals Mining. Frank will talk about U.S. Global Investors’ launch of a novel gold share ETF that places special emphasis on firms showing the highest revenue per employee. This factor yields royalty and streaming companies, widely considered the “smart money” of the metals and mining space. The U.S. Global GO GOLD and Precious Metals Miners ETF (GOAU) is scheduled to go live at the end of June 28. We will ask Frank to talk about that novel gold ETF as well as get his views on gold and prospects for gold shares in general. Oliver’s Momentum and Structural Analysis has turned decidedly bullish on gold and even more so on gold shares but we want to know when the equity market will finally turn negative fueling gold and gold shares even higher? Fitch will join us again to update us on Trimetals’s success in building a multi-million ounce gold exploration mining project that straddles the Utah and Nevada border.

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