Well, I find it rude that after I spent hours on research and analysis and provided the info for free, a reader complains about possibly having to read a few lines of promotional material on my site. It is par for the course to see an ad or promotional material on a site providing desired information for free. But to request that I send her stock picks because she "doesn't like having to go to your site (and probably subjecting myself to a sales pitch)" is a little rich. And no Kate, taking a second to follow or click on a share button is not a fair exchange of value for all of the time it takes to identify the best in breed mining stocks amongst a field of hundreds of companies.

But since you weren't rude Wendell, other than calling me 'guy', here are some of the top mining stocks to look into: GG, ABX, YAM, NEM. A better business model and usually better returns can be had from streamers or royalty stocks such as SLW, FNV, RGLD. They make an upfront payment for a % of future production or revenue. Diversified exposure is possible via an ETF like GDX or GDXJ.

Best of luck!