Year of the Miner: Talk now is that 2013 will be the year of the mining sector with gold coming close to the $2,000/oz level. As the most undervalued and depressed sector in the market, the mines and minerals sector is expected to top all other sectors with a revival in investor sentiment and a willingness to move money from better performing sectors this last year or two, into the miners. The feeling being that those other better performing stocks have had their run for now and it is time to seek out new undervalued, overlooked opportunity in the mines and minerals. Let's hope so! Once the powerhouse of the Canadian equity markets, the venture-listed stocks have suffered from total neglect and as a result, a wave of buying into the resource-related stocks is widely expected.