From one of my most favorite market observers...

"The historical record indicates that the gold-mining sector performs very well during the first 18-24 months of a general equity bear market..."

http://www.321gold.com/editorials/saville/saville011415.html

In my opinion, this is where we are now with Wall Street in general looking pretty weak, and precious metals approaching what looks like a break-out. Then, where the precious metals go, so too will the others (and the stocks of the producer companies).

Hang on! ...just a bit of a rough patch for us here at present, IMO.