Recommendations about which sector stocks are most likely to reward investors.

Copper Mining Stocks Fool contributor Stephen Simpson has no financial interest in any stocks mentioned that means he's neither long nor short the shares. Hochschild specializes in high grade underground deposits. Recommendations about which sector stocks are most likely to reward investors. So a number of these names have provided decent returns. The upshot for investors is that mining companies might have to make more concessions to workers over the next few years. They have net cash on the balance sheet yet are extremely operationally leveraged to any changes to the gold price.

Agnico-Eagle, Kinross, Echo Bay and Golden Eagle International. Management really knows it well and operates a very tight ship. There has been disdain by investors for gold hedging firms, the niche and the lot in life for gold producers is to be warrants on gold. This may represent a situation of lightning striking twice. Many investors believe that hedging goes against this concept.