I recently purchased Jim's "Survival Manual for Monetary Mayhem". I think that it would be a useful addition to any of our home libraries.

Jim makes the following comment at the end of his section on Mining Shares......."The leverage is always on the bottom side of the category scale, so it is anticipated that the bottom half of Junior Producers and the viable companies in Gold Exploration entities to outperform the top half of Junior Producers and Major Producers as the price of gold continues higher in late 2009 and 2010. History tells us this is how it has always happened, and we believe it will again.

This is the leverage coming out of higher gold prices, high in-ground values, higher profits in the start up mining and in many cases fewer shares outstanding than in the Major Producers and the top half of Junior Producers.

In general it is more than likely that now is the wrong time for a long suffering long to throw in the towel, but many will."

K.