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.