I think unless you are very wise and blessed to have picked the right miners, the best investment for years now has been the real metals or their equivalent. I find that truly weird, but not really. Less hassle, that’s for sure. I think of the countless hours I’ve wasted researching the miners, and that wasted time has surely been as costly as it has been wasteful. Now, if you picked a hundred bagger, you gambled well. I realize that I’ve gambled and lost with odds just a bit better than Vegas. Even the winners can drop 30% in a day or worse after going to wonderful heights only to have a mine cave in destroy years of investment. Do you think I’ve learned. Not at all. Insanity.  Yuck!