Gold Miners ETF (GDX)

[tootalljones]

when i first got involved in the gold and gold mining sector the year was 2001. I stumbled out of the tech sector a winner, which was in a freefall...like all stocks. Solid mining stocks, which had been 13 bucks a share, were selling at 2 or 3 bucks. They were despised as gold went below 300 bucks an ounce. People had lost all or most of their money in the wild ponzi mania of the late 1990s which was in the process of bursting...........and so disillusioned, some of them, like me, went into the miners....which had been written off. Are we needing this sort of thing before the miners will be bought by the public and funds?