Re: SILVER
Not that much love for Silver around here given the fresh 30 year highs
I wrote a blog tonight on 3 stocks with Silver exposure which may be of interest:
Only 3 "pure" Silver plays on the ASX
Not that much love for Silver around here given the fresh 30 year highs
I wrote a blog tonight on 3 stocks with Silver exposure which may be of interest:
Only 3 "pure" Silver plays on the ASX
Continues with brief company descriptions @ http://bullionbaron.blogspot.com/2010/09/only-3-pure-silver-plays-on-asx.htmlCCU, SVL, AYN ... I get the feeling these three codes will come up very frequently on stock discussion boards over the next several months. Silver (priced in USD) has recently broken out to fresh 30 year highs as the precious metal bull market kicks things up a notch, Gold has surpassed $1300 to reach new highs, the HUI is approaching the high of 519 set in March 2008, all signs are pointing towards an explosive end of year for the metals & related stocks.
During periods of high interest in precious metals Silver tends to outperform Gold as do the mining stocks, so you can just imagine the interest we could see in Silver mining companies, especially if Silver climbs in a parabolic fashion as I suggested it might in another recent post: "Where to for the price of Silver?".
The Gold:Silver ratio is still around 60:1. Before the 2008 collapse in precious metals prices this ratio was sitting around 50:1. A 50:1 ratio today based on the current Gold price would give us a Silver price over US$26.
Australia's large Silver producers do not do so as their main focus ... so finding exposure on the ASX to Silver's price upside can be difficult. To my knowledge there are currently only 4 "pure" Silver companies on the ASX (by pure, I mean Silver production or exploration is their main focus). One of those companies (CXC, Coeur D'Alene Mines Corp) is delisting from the ASX in December this year. That will leave us with 3, which brings us back to the codes listed at the start of the bog ... CCU, SVL, AYN, these are the 3 ASX codes for the following companies:
Cobar Consolidated Resources Limited (CCU)
Silver Mines Limited (SVL)
Alcyone Resources Limited (AYN)
Below is short introduction I have written for each, I will hopefully find time to cover each of them in more depth in the near future.
In my opinion the real speculative money has not really caught onto Silver's rise, as Silver rises further I expect these 3 companies will benefit handsomely through a significant rise in their share prices.