Mining Stocks To Watch Today - April 21st

Key Points

• MarketBeat's screener flags seven Mining stocks to watch today: IREN, CAT, FCX, USAR, NEM, MP, and CIFR, each of which had the highest dollar trading volume among Mining names in recent days.
• Mining stocks offer leveraged exposure to commodity prices and carry higher cyclical and operational risk—prices, exploration outcomes, costs, geopolitics, and regulation can make them more volatile than broad-market stocks.
• Notable distinctions: IREN and CIFR are bitcoin/mining-data-center plays, USAR and MP focus on rare-earths and domestic critical‑minerals supply, while FCX, NEM, and CAT provide traditional copper/gold/mining-equipment exposure.

IREN, Caterpillar, Freeport-McMoRan, USA Rare Earth, Newmont, MP Materials, and Cipher Mining are the seven Mining stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Mining stocks are shares of publicly traded companies that explore for, extract, develop, and sometimes process natural resources such as gold, copper, iron ore, coal, and battery metals. They give investors leveraged exposure to commodity prices and to company-specific risks—exploration success, operational costs, geopolitical or regulatory changes, and environmental factors—making them typically more cyclical and volatile than broad-market stocks. 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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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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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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USA Rare Earth (USAR)

USA Rare Earth, Inc. is domestic supplier of rare earth magnets and heavy rare earth elements. It is developing a vertically integrated, domestic supply chain for rare earth element magnet production, with a facility in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and mining rights to the Round Top heavy rare earth and critical minerals deposit in West Texas.

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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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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.

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Cipher Mining (CIFR)

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