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Junior Mining Investor: 14 Natural Resource Experts Show You How to Invest Profitably in Emerging Gold, Silver, Platinum, Base Metals, and Uranium Mining and Exploration Stocks

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This informative book is a "must have" for any beginner in this arena. It is also of great benefit to experienced investors, as a refresher course, and as a reference book. People like David Morgan, arguably the world's foremost expert on silver, contribute, along with 13 other natural resource experts. The author, Kevin Corcoran, impresses me by putting together this compendium of advice in a way that is easily read and understood. Very few investors succeed in this high risk arena, and this book is sure to increase your odds of becoming a profitable investor. The money to be made on one good trade is staggering, witness Voisey's Bay, and Diamond Fields. You will greatly increase the odds of picking winning junior mining stocks by reading this book.

As the economy becomes sour I have started looking around for where the smarrt investment money is going. Historically gold, silver, and other precious metals have been a hedge in questionable times. This book proved to be a valuable book in introducing me to another way of investing in precious metals without having to buying Certificates or taking ownership of the metal.

I found the book to be an easy read for a novice investor. I think I understand enough about the risks and rewards of this type of investing. I would recommend the book to anyone interested in diversifying their precious metals portfolio.

This collection of essays is generally quite superficial and appears to be reprints of articles appearing on the various authors' web sites. For example, the endnote of Ch. 6, "How to Choose a Uranium Stock," which chapter is only 2-1/2 pages long, reads "This list was compiled by Kevin Brambaugh and Jean Francois Tardif of Sprott Asset Management and is presented on [...]...." Chapter 11, "World Class Deposits: Why You Should Study Past Winners," has less than a page of text followed by a list of 30 companies to study. Nowhere do I find an in-depth demonstration of successfully valuing mining stocks. That said, it was an enjoyable read. I also found "An Insiders Guide to the Mining Sector" to be similarly superficial, but well written and enjoyable.

As a single mother of two, trying to find reliable and informative advice regarding investment in the natural resource sector has been very difficult - until I found this book. The author gives you 14 of the most authoritative resources in this sector, all of which have helped me make excellent choices in this arena. Thank you MR CORCORAN for writing this book!!

Eventhough some of the referenced sites are no longer available, this is a must read for the serious penny & sub-penny mining speculator and investor. It offers 14 resource experts tips and tricks then pointing you
to expanded references in their areas of expertise.

This book helps to diminish the hope aspects of our investing problems,
and excellent book

A book that contains many nice bits of information for mining investors but the structure is messy and hard to follow. A glossary would be a great addition too. Worth a read.

I was hesitant to purchase Junior Mining Investor after reading one of the reviews, but was more than happy with the information I gained after reading this book. I have invested in gold and natural resource stocks since 2001 and recently became more involved in the markets after learning about a major gold discovery in the Yukon Territory of Canada. The book focuses on small capitalization mining and exploration companies that are listed on the Canadian Venture Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange (and to a lesser extent the Australian Stock Exchange and American Exchanges), and hunt for minerals across the globe.

The chapters are brief and concise and one or two of them can be found on the web. But other than that, the book is thorough and covers all the major natural resources, past discoveries and ore grades, strategies to pick potential "10 Baggers," and how to interpret 43-101 reports and news releases. Two chapters, one by Brian Fagan on valuing mining stocks and one of the author's chapters on converting U.S. dollars to Canadian dollars for purchasing Canadian stocks through U.S. online brokers (think Scottrade and Ameritrade) were worth the price alone.

I read this book in an afternoon and really felt cheated. I was expecting to get a good primer on investing in natural resources; instead I lost several hours of my life I will never get back and I am now better informed than before I started this book. As always caveat emptor on the recommendation as it is my opinion.