Question for you seasoned gold bugs....If gold loses its luster against the dollar, will GDX and gold mining companies drop in their value as well? Just started investing in a few gold mining companies as well as in GDX (not happy with GDX's performance) in the past year. My friend that got me into gold has told me that gold will be strong for another 5 years. Hear many conflicting theories on gold, but was just wondering what everyone else thought...