Don Duret
Independent Gold & Silver Mining Stock Analyst | GoldSilverData.com | Author, How to Invest in Gold and Silver
"Founder of GoldSilverData and author of How to Invest in Gold and Silver; screens gold and silver miners for multi-bagger potential at $7,000 gold and $200 silver."
Biography
Don Durrett is an independent gold and silver mining stock analyst and the founder of GoldSilverData.com, a research platform that tracks more than 880 mining stocks listed in New York, Toronto, London, and Sydney. He has been buying and analyzing precious metals equities since 2004 and is the author of How to Invest in Gold and Silver — A Complete Guide with a Focus on Mining Stocks, now in its 12th edition. For investors working through the junior miner universe (small exploration and development companies), his value is a documented, repeatable screening method built over two decades of market cycles.
His platform — known to many readers as GoldStockData — attaches 130+ data points to each stock it covers, from reserves, production, and mining costs to valuation metrics, and distills them into Top Picks and Top 25 rankings with monthly newsletters. He appears regularly as a guest on mining and precious metals programs, including Sprott Money's Ask the Expert series with Craig Hemke, Mining Stock Education, Natural Resource Stocks, CapitalCosm, and WallStForMainSt. On his YouTube channel he publishes market updates and a 2026 Masterclass series on investing in gold and silver mining stocks, and he also sits down with mining executives — among them Contango Silver & Gold president Shawn Khunkhun and the CEO of Upside Gold. He has additionally highlighted early-stage stories such as Deep Sea Minerals Corp. (CSE: SEAS | OTCQB: DSEAF) as the company pursued a planned Nasdaq uplisting.
His valuation approach is unconventional, and he discloses it plainly: he rates miners on anticipated future cash flows at $7,000 gold and $200 silver over a three-to-five-year horizon, not on current earnings. His Top Picks must have the potential to return at least five times an investor's capital at those metal prices — what he calls 5+ baggers — while showing none of his red flags: high debt, thin cash, financing trouble, permitting or management problems. He favors development-stage companies (projects that have defined a resource and are advancing toward a production decision) over raw exploration, weighs insider ownership heavily, and holds a deliberately broad basket of miners, describing his own style as speculating rather than investing.
Investors can follow his rankings and newsletters on GoldSilverData, his commentary on X (@DonDurrett), and his video updates on YouTube. His published view is that a structural bull market could carry gold toward $7,000 to $8,000 an ounce and re-rate miners with it, and he is explicit that if gold falls short of his assumptions, his ratings would fall short too. That candor about bias and risk is the main reason his work is worth reading: it shows, step by step, how a long-time speculator screens for asymmetric payoffs in mining stocks.
Videos (3)
Silver47 Exploration ($AGA | $AAGAF) on Red Mountain's Critical Mineral Potential & Path to 2027 PEA
A 22-cent EV per ounce on Silver47 Exploration's 246M silver-equivalent ounces screens 2-10x below peers like Blackrock Silver, framing a clear valuation gap. The CEO argues most ounces are inferred, but three high-grade US projects (Red Mountain, Hughes, Mogollon) underpin a 1B-oz aspiration and a 2027 PEA. With $45M Canadian in working capital and four rigs running, Silver47 plans roughly 20,000 meters of 2026 drilling across Alaska, Nevada, and New Mexico. Co-hosts Don Duret and John Fenwick frame a deep correction in US silver developers as a contrarian bottom-fishing setup before a potential second leg up. Near-term producers like 1911 Gold, Denarius, and LaHontan anchor a broader US silver thesis alongside Silver47, all riding a bipartisan critical-mineral policy tailwind.
GoGold Resources ($GGD | $GLGDF): CEO Bradley Langille on Building the Los Ricos Property in Mexico
- Top takeaway Don presents gold and silver support levels (gold 3,900 with downside risk to 3,500, silver possibly retesting 50) and advocates buying dips during the seasonally weak summer window ahead of a Q4 melt-up.
Los Ricos South targets first pour in 2028, fully funded with $284M cash against $227M capex and no major equity raise. At roughly $12/oz AISC — what it really costs to produce an ounce — Los Ricos South sits in the top decile of global silver developers. CEO Bradley Langille plans parallel tracks: Los Ricos South into production by 2028, Los Ricos North from PEA to permit by Q1 next year. Langille expects Mexico's open-pit permitting to accelerate under President Scheinbaum, who is methodically clearing the inherited backlog of about 100 operational permits. The Parral operating mine plus copper and zinc byproduct sales generate roughly $60M/yr free cashflow to internally fund Los Ricos development.
A New Copper Discovery: Visionary Copper and Gold ($VCG | $VCGMF) on the Kraken Zone
- Top takeaway He calls silver's break below $60 the week's big story but says the precious-metals bull market stays intact as long as silver holds above $50.
- He reads the sell-off as a correction within a bull market — gold dipped below $4,000 before closing back above it, down 27% from its high, with the HUI down 33% — and sees no breakdown unless gold loses $3,000, with a worst case around $3,700-3,800.
- He argues gold is trapped below its roughly $5,600 high until the stock market rolls over, and expects another dip in July and again around August-September, each of which he'll buy.
- He sees the S&P 500 at 7,350 facing three paths — up toward 7,500, ranging between 7,000 and 7,500, or breaking down — and is simply accumulating stocks, using corrections as buying opportunities.
- His verdict on Visionary: a project with 'a ton of potential' — likely a million-ounce, economic gold project plus a 30,000-hectare exploration district — but it was under his radar, so he'll study it and likely add it to his Beaver Creek list.
Visionary Copper and Gold's Kraken discovery — a copper stringer zone in Point Leamington's footwall — anchors a plan to more than double its pit-constrained resource. The CEO argues VMS (volcanogenic massive sulfide — seafloor-formed metal deposits) endowment often sits in the footwall stringer zone, not the lens. A roughly 20,000-meter phase two campaign aims to grow Point Leamington from 20 million toward 40-plus million tons while upgrading inferred material to indicated. Management defers economic studies until resource growth and metallurgical work finish, arguing fixed infrastructure should never sit over a future pit extension. The hosts frame the sharp gold and silver correction as a buying opportunity, citing a historical buy-in-November, sell-in-Q1 seasonal pattern.
Key Quotes
"I'm not an investor. I'm a speculator."
— Sprott Money, Ask the Expert interview with Craig Hemke, 2026
"My investment bias is on future cash flow at $7000 gold and $200 silver."
— Investment Bias page, GoldSilverData.com
"Developers are going to break your heart, but I want the investors to have so much skin in the game."
— Sprott Money, Ask the Expert interview with Craig Hemke, 2026
Key Works
His beginner's guide to precious metals and mining stock investing; the 12th edition (January 2026) runs 270 pages with stock lists covering 350 companies.
Subscription research platform covering 880+ gold and silver mining stocks with 130+ data points each, plus Top Picks and Top 25 rankings, newsletters, and a member forum.
Market updates, the Masterclass series on investing in gold and silver mining stocks, and interviews with mining company executives.
Specializations
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