In my firm's updates we regularly reply to questions regarding gold and silver investments that we receive. The question that we received this week along with our reply provides a good introduction to more detailed analysis of the precious metals mining stock charts.   Q: Back in early November of last year with gold at 1685 and the Dow (INDEXDJX:.DJI) at 13 100 GDX was at 50. Compared to today GDX has to gain $5 just to return to that status where miners were already beaten down.   With long-term investments I am now just about where I was ...