May 10, 2021 at 09:17 AM EDT These mining stocks are ahead after earnings; will you add them to your watchlist? Mining stocks have been very interesting to watch in the last year. The pandemic caused some materials like gold and silver to reach record prices in mid-2020. Now in 2021, gold and silver prices have slowed down. Prices of the two metals hovered around the same price point of above $1,700 and above $25 respectively that they had traded at for a few months now. That was until May 6 th , when gold finally broke through the $1,800 per ounce level. This is also when silver climbed above $27. The result of this was many gold stocks went up. The momentum that mining stocks experienced in the last year has brought a lot of new investors to the sector. There are a few questions on the table about what direction these stocks could go in. On one hand, the economy could recover and cause gold and silver prices and demand to go down. In this climate, there is still the opportunity