Before giving our view on the best silver miner in the world a little background information is necessary. First, the reader should ask why invest in the mining industry at all? The answer to us is covered in our third rule of silver investing below.

This third rule of Silver Investing can be found in the global-investor book of Investing Rules.

This rule is one that many silver investors know quite well and the joys of watching your mining stock outperform the increase in bullion prices by a factor of two or three to one is exciting. However, leverage works in both directions and when the price of the precious metals fall back the mining shares fall back hard. This is normal market behavior and should be anticipated by the savvy metals investor.

Again, mining shares analysis is difficult and in the speculative area nearly impossible. Because of this fact, it is important to do your own homework carefully. Also you can subscribe to a service that provides insights into this area. We do our best to diversify and to give clear signals to area we think have merit. However, we are only human and have made errors in the past. It is the nature of investing that you cannot be 100% accurate, although for the first two years our report did have nothing but winners. Those days are over and in today's market is it more important that ever to be careful and use proper money management.

If you do not wish to put in the time and effort required to succeed in this area of investing, we suggest you consider a gold mutual fund. Even with professional management not all companies are winners, but with proper diversification total results mirror the general gold equity market. Unfortunately, there is not a silver mutual fund at this time. This is a question we are asked quite often.

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