Unlike in other markets, mining companies don't tend to want to
buy other mining companies when they think they are at a low — they don't have a lot of cash themselves and would rather do it when the market starts to tick up again.
Not exact matches
Franco - Nevada Corp. (FNV: $ 44.16) A royalty
company that
buys interests in a diversified range of gold
mines as well as interests in oil and gas and
other assets.
Three
other companies that O'Dea co-founded, led and sold were Fronteer Gold, picked up by Newmont
Mining NYSE: NEM in 2011; Aurora Energy, sold to Paladin Energy TSX: PDN in 2011; and True North Nickel, in which Royal Nickel TSX: RNX
bought a majority interest in 2014.
These deals are aimed at gaining the trust of investors — stock investors are far more likely to
buy penny
mining stocks that have agreements with
companies like Barrick Gold, BHP Billiton or some
other major
mining company to finance exploration of their
mining claims.
«The whole essence of
mining is that the smaller
companies were sold to the bigger
companies and the big ones like Barrick and
others were also buyers but the top of the food chain is not in
buying mode right now and it's having an impact right down the ladder,» said Kofman.
On the
other hand, If you want to bet in the cryptocurrency ecosystem without actually
buying more coins, you can always
buy stocks from
companies like AMD and nVidia, whose prices have become correlated with the cryptocurrency
mining landscape.