6. While a modest rise in the price of gold in 2015 might not sound very exciting, when coupled with a further collapse in the price of oil, gold stocks could suddenly become the darling of institutional investors around the world.

7. Gold companies are much more efficient now than they were just two years ago. Lower fuel prices coupled with even modestly higher gold prices could produce a violent move to the upside, for the entire gold stock sector.

Two of many relevant points to be found in in the forward-looking essay linked below.

What happens in gold, happens to other metals too. As Marx said, gold is the standard of value by which all other commodities are measured.

http://www.321gold.com/editorials/thomson_s/thomson_s_122314.html