ASM: Silver Stocks for 2016https://email.angelnexus.com/hostedemail/email.htm?CID=31305310034&ch=236FC920D34D9E900E6D899868AE9618&h=5c4c5f467e3166e6fa106abee03b0b92&ei=sPRpR7yN4 Avino is a smaller, little-known silver-focused mining and exploration firm with projects in Mexico and Canada. The company's flagship project is the Avino Property, which currently has 35.5 million ounces of measured, indicated, and inferred silver resources, plus another 18.7 million silver-equivalent resources for a total of over 54.2 million ounces of silver-equivalent resources. Through the first three quarters of the year, the main Avino mine produced nearly 800,000 silver-equivalent ounces. And while 800,000 silver-equivalent ounces isn't a game-changing amount of material, the Avino Mine has good potential to increase production. Between 1998 and 2001, the Avino mine produced an average of 1.6 million silver-equivalent ounces a year. The company hopes to ramp up production beyond that figure. The Avino mine has a very low AISC. For the first three months of the year, Avino's all-in sustaining costs were just over $12 an ounce. Back in July, the company signed a prepayment agreement with Samsung. Under the agreement, Samsung advanced Avino $10 million for the exclusive rights to buy the company's silver concentrates. Samsung will pay for the concentrates at prevailing metal prices for copper, silver, and gold, less treatment, refining, shipping, and insurance charges. With a decently sized resource, increasing production, very low production costs, and a customer ready to buy its products, ASM looks like a great little stock to own to leverage rising silver prices.