It all depends on your time frame, I would guess.
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That's for sure. To take an extreme case, between 3/9 and 4/28, the HUI dropped nearly 22%, while Gold only dropped 2%. That's one heck of a differential.
This was the period in which at least on miner, NEM, announced quarterly numbers in which gross revenue had dropped 15%, but operating expenses had only dropped 1%.
There seemed to be a general feeling that the miners' costs were running away from them, while revenues were not keeping up.
Hard work often pays off over time,
but laziness always pays off right now.