The 10 Biggest Gold Mining Stocks
People have sought after gold for millennia, as the yellow metal has played vital roles as a store of value and a foundation for sovereign coinage as well as in jewelry. Because of the constant demand for gold, gold mining has become a vast industry that spans the globe in search of new resources that can be taken out of the ground at a cheaper price than what customers will pay for them.
Gone are the days when individual prospectors would go off on gold rushes using hand tools to dig and/or pan for the yellow metal. Nowadays, gold mining companies are huge operations that take full advantage of the areas in which they can find plentiful resources of gold. Some have vast portfolios of mining assets that provide diversified exposure across the world, while others concentrate their attention on just one or two lucrative mining sites.
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