Yes agreed, me too. Not limiting myself. But if I’m undecided on two and want one, if they have a US mine, I’ll choose that one. I have mines in shit countries. I basically go for good performers, no matter the price.
I have NO way of knowing why some go up a lot and some do nothing. Some people buy the “name” if they like it. Remember Sunshine Mining? Many loved that one. Remember DROOY? nobody like that one. The “popularity” or strong performers, tends to rotate. Some years its ZYZ and other years its ABC.
P.S. Another thing I noticed about best performers, was the market caps. The real high ones and the very low ones don’t do as well as the area between $300 million and $1.4 billion. The super big caps like ABX NEM GG AEM etc do very good when the big mutual funds start buying in. And that’s what it looks like lately.