Lets face it, they in general have been beat up and abused too many times over the decades and have a bad reputation. They move crazy and volatile along with the stupid skitzy heavy margined futures buyers, even though share buyers are so different than futures buyers.
It also depends on which miners we buy. Small cap, pink sheet, bulletin board, mid cap big cap blue chip miners royalty miners etc. Some gold miners are making all time highs, and spot Silver and its miners are simply annoying, like my useless CDE that can’t seem to get up off its fat ass.
That’s why we but a variety and I’m spread around with 10 12or 15 miners and doing ok.