RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:CapexAll true and the companies that mine it almost never make any money. Barricks share price is the same as it was 10 years ago. It's not a growth industry but a cannibalistic one where miners sink all their profits back into the ground replacing the seed corn they ate.
There's always a couple of big winners in the space but 80% go broke. It's a fun and lucrative place to speculate at the right time but there's no compelling reason to love gold and less to love gold miners for any length of time
I'll bet copper doubles in price before gold does and the world actually needs copper...