Mining Sector4 Feb 2019 16:32
Chesh, your posts are very informative, however the mining sector is not suffering. Rising gold prices is restoring the shine to the Mining sector, Zimbabwe's mining sector showed record growth during 2018 eventhough production had stopped for most companies due to currency constraints. In Zimbabwe the mining sector was dominated by six key minerals – gold, diamonds, nickel, chrome, coal and platinum group metals which accounted for 95 percent of the $2.2 billion generated as at the end of October 2018. Even in other demographics across the globe improvement was noticed in 2018. https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/research/industry-top-trends-2018-metals-and-mining
Thus, in conclusion, the mining industry hasn't suffered - if anything it has grown and with 2019 forecasts showing further growth, metal prices can only get better. I have noticed with many companies that costs have gone up for extraction, however not by much thus irrelevant.