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Best Mining Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist - October 19th

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Key Points

  • IREN, Newmont, Caterpillar, MP Materials, and Royal Gold are highlighted as the top mining stocks to monitor, known for their high trading volumes recently.
  • IREN Limited specializes in bitcoin mining data centers and has seen significant growth, being up 186% year-to-date.
  • MP Materials Corp. focuses on producing rare earth materials, operating the Mountain Pass mine, and holds key mineral rights and processing patents.
  • Five stocks we like better than IREN.

IREN, Newmont, Caterpillar, MP Materials, and Royal Gold are the five Mining stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Mining stocks are shares of publicly traded companies involved in exploring for, extracting, and processing minerals and metals (such as gold, copper, coal, or lithium), including miners and related service providers. For investors they offer leveraged exposure to commodity prices and can be highly cyclical and risk-sensitive, affected by factors like metal prices, production costs, geopolitical and environmental issues, and company-specific operational risks. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Mining stocks within the last several days.

IREN (IREN)

IREN Limited, formerly known as Iris Energy Limited, owns and operates bitcoin mining data centers. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

Read Our Latest Research Report on IREN

Newmont (NEM)

Newmont Corporation engages in the production and exploration of gold. It also explores for copper, silver, zinc, and lead. The company has operations and/or assets in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Peru, Suriname, Argentina, Chile, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Ecuador, Fiji, and Ghana.

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Caterpillar (CAT)

Caterpillar Inc. manufactures and sells construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives in worldwide. Its Construction Industries segment offers asphalt pavers, compactors, road reclaimers, forestry machines, cold planers, material handlers, track-type tractors, excavators, telehandlers, motor graders, and pipelayers; compact track, wheel, track-type, backhoe, and skid steer loaders; and related parts and tools.

Read Our Latest Research Report on CAT

MP Materials (MP)

MP Materials Corp., together with its subsidiaries, produces rare earth materials. The company owns and operates the Mountain Pass Rare Earth mine and processing facility in North America. It holds the mineral rights to the Mountain Pass mine and surrounding areas, as well as intellectual property rights related to the processing and development of rare earth minerals.

Read Our Latest Research Report on MP

Royal Gold (RGLD)

Royal Gold, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, acquires and manages precious metal streams, royalties, and related interests. The company engages in acquiring stream and royalty interests or to finance projects that are in production, development, or in the exploration stage in exchange for stream or royalty interests, which primarily consists of gold, silver, copper, nickel, zinc, lead, and other metals.

Read Our Latest Research Report on RGLD

Further Reading

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