Even better — gold and silver miners leveraged to the underlying metal. If it costs a miner $500 to pull an ounce of gold out of the ground, and gold costs $950, the miner has a profit margin of $450 per ounce. If the costs go up to $550, and the cost of gold goes up to $1,300, the miner’s profit margin per ounce increases to $750. That means its profit margin increases 66% even though the price of gold increases “only” 36%.
We’ve seen this across the mining sector in the past year. Costs have gone up, but the price of gold has gone up even faster
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