GDX, a basket of "majors" is up almost 3%, at the moment, while the stock markets are suffering. Several pundit's articles and interviews have predicted that buying the precious metals miner shares should increase as gold climbs and as we approach the usual historical "season." Meanwhile, retired stock broker friends advised they were "personally" getting "in" ahead of the crowd with their own cash. Other financial wizz investor friends have advised they are begining to place their bets. Nothing goes in a straight line, but it seems the time for the miners is just around the corner. If the gold predictions for the next several months are correct, this could be one heck of a 2nd half of 2011 for PEM, if all continues to go well.