In case you haven't noticed Crude is on the way up, way up and we know what this means for precious metal mining expenses... Since one of the main costs of extracting and refining p-metals is energy/oil we can pretty be for certain mining companies all in costs are going to rise and this means that precious metals have no other choice than rise. 

If you don't understand why the oil price is so important to precious metals miners than read this great article by SRSRocco:
https://srsroccoreport.com/top-gold-miners-burned-record-amount-of-fuel-to-produce-gold-in-2015/
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