This post is one in a series in which more than 60 newsletter advisors share their Top Stock Picks for 2011. This special report is courtesy of TheStockAdvisors.com.

"Kaminak Gold (KAM) , a gold exploration firm which trades on the Vancouver exchange, is my top pick for the coming year," says junior mining stock specialist Brien Lundin.

The editor of The Gold Newsletter explains, "The 'geological baristas' at Kaminak's Coffee property in the Yukon's White Gold District continue to brew-up a strong blend of results.

"Western speculators are quick to dump gold on dollar strength, while long-term investors and savers continue to quietly accumulate in anticipation of oncoming inflation," says metals and mining specialist Brien Lundin.

In his The Gold Newsletter, he explains, "Over the long tern, the price of of gold will be set not by governments or speculators, but by those who look to gold as a bulwark against the ravages of inflation. Despite the vast tides of money flowing into and out of the "paper gold" markets as hedgers and speculators fight their daily games of tug-of-war, investors and savers across the globe continue to buy gold."

This post is part of a special report, Top Picks for 2010, the 27th annual survey in which TheStockAdvisors.com asks the nation's leading advisors for their single favorite stock for the new year. See all 80 stocks listed here.

"Gold will be the primary beneficiary of the massive bailout and stimulus plans enacted by not only the United States, but every industrialized nation across the globe," forecasts Brien Lundin.

The mining stock specialist and editor of The Gold Newsletter looks to a small gold exploration and development company as his top pick for 2010: Keegan Resources (KGN).

"Silver Standard Resources (NASDAQ: SSRI) has set a new standard for silver resources; simply put, its boasts the largest published in-ground silver resource of any publicly-traded silver company," says mining stock specialist Brien Lundin.

In The Gold Newsetter he adds, "We were fortunate over the years that the great idea behind this company was combined with a great management team, as CEO Bob Quartermain is among the best in the business."

"Silver Standard has 1.127 billion ounces in measured and indicated resources, plus another 195 million ounces in proven and probable reserves, and another 456 million ounces in inferred resources.

"Its resources come from a portfolio of properties spanning the globe from Argentina, Peru, and Mexico, to Canada, Chile, the US and Australia. Now the companyis making the transition to production with aggressive development programs on five core properties.