Here are top ways to add gold and silver: Barrick Gold and Hecla Mining

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Barrick Gold and Hecla Mining offer you great ways to prosper from higher prices for precious metals during the pandemic and beyond. Today’s economic volatility should significantly boost demand for gold and silver as an investment, especially if huge goverment stimulus spending across the world spurs inflation. That’s likely to keep investors looking to gold and silver stocks for a “safe harbour.” Both these stocks are buys. BARRICK GOLD $30.13 is a Power Buy. The stock (Toronto symbol ABX; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (www.barrick.com; Shares outstanding: 1.8 billion; Market cap: $54.2 billion; Dividend yield: 1.6%) lets you tap the second-largest gold producer in the world after Newmont (symbol NEM on New York). All together, the company has mining operations and projects in 15 countries. In the quarter ended September 30, 2020, revenue shot up 32.2%, to $3.54 billion from $2.68 billion. Excluding one-time items, earnings reached $0.41 a share in the latest quarter—up 173.3% from $0.15. The main reason for the gains was 30.5% higher realized gold prices. Some…