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Hybridan’s Pearson: Junior miners ‘not out of the woods yet’

Published: 13:44 01 Apr 2015 BST

Niall Pearson from AIM broker Hybridan says the small-cap mining companies are ‘not out of the woods yet’ with the sector still under plenty of pressure.

‘For [investors], it’s not a question of picking the winners, it’s really a question of avoiding the howlers,’ Pearson says.

He believes some of the better mining companies however have been unjustifiably affected by the sector’s malaise. Pearson names some of his standout stories in the junior mining sector so far in 2015, including Mariana Resources (LON:MARL), Conroy Gold (LON:CGNR), DiamondCorp (LON:DCP), and Amara Mining (LON:AMA).

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