RANKED: Top 10 gold mining companies of 2025

Gold grabbed the spotlight in 2025 after a run that saw prices hit a record more than 50 times. By end of the year, bullion was up by more than 40%, its best annual performance since 1979.Besides gold investors, miners also came away as big winners of that rally. The world’s largest exchange traded-fund with exposure to the gold mining sector, the VanEck Gold Miners ETF (GDX), went up by over 155%, far outperforming the metal itself.Individually, companies like top producer Newmont (NYSE, ASX: NEM) and Cana ...