The real reason the gold price is so high, and who will be the winners and losers - VOX Markets4 Nov 2025 08:34
the winners?
anyone currently mining, or exploring for gold. the exploration angle is a bit more abstract. but the mining side is clear enough. most of the costs in mining are sunk. so every dollar added to the gold price goes straight to profit.
so big miners like newmont and barrick will be rolling in cash, swamped by an embarrassment of riches. unlikely that they’ll want to hold onto their piles of dollars for long, of course. instead, there’ll either be mergers and acquisitions aplenty, or massive payouts to shareholders, or both.
who will be the next target? kinross? agnico eagle? northern star? alamos? or will it be barrick and newmont themselves? – both companies have recently had a change in top management and some have speculated that these corporate changes might be clearing the decks for a potential merger.
further down the scale, mid-tier and junior gold companies will benefit too. producers, like caledonia mining (cmcl), greatland (ggp), anglo-asian (aaz), ariana (aau), thor explorations (thx) and pan african (paf) will be enjoying those bumper margins, supported by strong track records of production and supportive investors.
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