Gold mining stocks: tips from Australia

Hunting through speculative gold stocks for nuggets is almost like gold-mining itself. (Image: DepositPhotos)

Sat, 20 Jan 2024

As the old saying has it, Australians would bet on two flies crawling up a wall. Looking at the amount of speculative dross traded on the Australian sharemarket, mostly in explorers or bio-techs, it is easy to believe this is the case.Tens of millions of dollars are raised annually, much of which disappears into the pockets of advisers, brokers, lawyers and the like, leaving little left over to search for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.Over the past week, it’s been the turn of investors from across the ditch to take the pl...

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