Mining Stocks To Keep An Eye On - January 25th

Key Points

• MarketBeat’s screener names IREN, Freeport‑McMoRan (FCX), Caterpillar (CAT), Hecla (HL), and Newmont (NEM) as the five mining stocks to watch, selected for having the highest dollar trading volume among mining stocks in recent days.
• IREN (formerly Iris Energy) is a bitcoin‑mining data‑center operator, making it a crypto miner rather than a traditional metals producer like the other companies on the list.
• Investors use mining stocks for commodity exposure and takeover/production upside, but these shares carry risks from commodity cycles, operational costs, and geopolitical or environmental factors.

IREN, Freeport-McMoRan, Caterpillar, Hecla Mining, and Newmont are the five Mining stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Mining stocks are shares of publicly traded companies that explore for, develop, and extract minerals and metals (such as gold, copper, coal, and rare earths), and may also include firms that process or provide services to the mining sector. Investors buy mining stocks to gain exposure to commodity prices, production growth, or takeover potential, but they carry risks tied to commodity cycles, operational costs, and geopolitical or environmental factors. 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.

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Freeport-McMoRan (FCX)

Freeport-McMoRan Inc. engages in the mining of mineral properties in North America, South America, and Indonesia. It primarily explores for copper, gold, molybdenum, silver, and other metals. The company's assets include the Grasberg minerals district in Indonesia; Morenci, Bagdad, Safford, Sierrita, and Miami in Arizona; Chino and Tyrone in New Mexico; and Henderson and Climax in Colorado, North America, as well as Cerro Verde in Peru and El Abra in Chile.

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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.

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Hecla Mining (HL)

Hecla Mining Company, together with its subsidiaries, provides precious and base metal properties in the United States, Canada, Japan, Korea, and China. The company mines for silver, gold, lead, and zinc concentrates, as well as carbon material containing silver and gold for custom smelters, metal traders, and third-party processors; and doré containing silver and gold.

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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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