Some miners are getting a lift today from the price of copper reaching a cyclical high of US$4.14 on the spot market (as of my last look).

How long will this last when weighted against a stock market that may be running out of steam after being through the steepest longest-lived bull-run in history?  When it turns, everything will suffer initially.  Having said that, resources producer will be the first to begin recovery.  Explorers will be the last, at least in-so-far as economic history tells us.