Dan Norcini said in reference to the mining shares that "A frenzy of buying is going to appear if the HUI tops 560." It went up 12 to top 545 today. So that is only another 15 points or less than 3%. I would be surprised if we didn't blow that away by Friday.

Dan Norcini @ http://jsmineset.com/

"Silver is showing good strength at a time when it needed to on the technical charts. The further it moves up and away from $28.50, the better for the bulls as it will bring some buyers back in from the sidelines who were hesitating for fear of getting trapped by fund selling that would ensue if those support levels were taken out. The chatter about tightness in the physical silver market certainly appears to be validated by the price action of the metal at the Comex. I still want to see it climb back above the $30 level and hold there before getting confident enough to expect another leg higher. It ran into selling exactly at the 10 day moving average which is currently trending lower so we will want to see it first push past this level near $29.80 and close above it to begin spooking the bears and inducing some short covering.

The metals are finally getting some help from the HUI but that index needs to climb above 560 to get anyone terribly excited. There are so many shorts in the mining shares that if the metals can break their overhead resistance levels, a frenzy of buying is going to appear."