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The Only Gold Miner I Trust With My Money
“If you want to own just one producing gold miner in your portfolio, make it this one.”
Karim Rahemtulla, Co-Founder, Monument Traders Alliance
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Dear Reader,
Every senior gold miner you own is a cash machine right now.
I’m not referring to an old prospector with a pickaxe and a long, white beard.
I mean large, established companies that operate multiple gold mines in a variety of locations.
And with gold futures reaching above $4,600 this morning, the question is… which senior gold miner knows what to do with all that sweet, sweet gold… I mean cash.
Because bad operators destroy capital.
They overpay for acquisitions, overspend on new projects, dilute shareholders to “grow,” and take on debt at the worst possible time because everything looks easy.
Then the cycle turns, gold pulls back, and the names that looked unstoppable spend the next three years grinding back the losses.
Gold futures have been on a pendulum recently. It took a $300 punch in two weeks, from above $4,700 down to a two-month low near $4,390 on US-Iran ceasefire hopes, before rallying back over $4,600 this morning.
Anyone holding senior gold miners through that move got a small preview of the real top. But at the real top, the punch is bigger… and it doesn’t bounce back in three days.
One senior gold miner handles both the cash and the eventual reversal better than any other: Agnico Eagle Mines (AEM).
How It Stays Out of the Trap
Agnico is the only senior gold producer with a 25-year track record of avoiding every move that wrecks mining companies at cycle tops.
But don’t just take my word for it. Look at the operating record, not at a writer being generous to a favorite name.
Instead of buying its way to growth like most operators, Agnico grows reserves around the mines it already owns. The company has more than 55 million ounces of proven and probable reserves and has consistently replaced and expanded those reserves better than the rest of the senior space.
This distinction means everything. After all, every gold miner is a depleting asset.
Operators who grow reserves organically, like AEM, have a real business. The ones who keep buying are running on a treadmill.
Geography sinks most of them next.
The senior space concentrates in Africa, Latin America, and politically unstable jurisdictions where nationalization risk, royalty surprises, and permitting delays can wipe out a quarter’s earnings overnight.
Agnico runs almost entirely in Canada, Finland, and Australia. Institutional money pays a real premium for jurisdiction safety, and during geopolitical stress, the safe-jurisdiction names tend to outperform the sector.
The operating record itself separates them further.
The industry-standard mistakes are missing guidance, diluting shareholders, and destroying capital on bad acquisitions.
Agnico, under former CEO Sean Boyd and now Ammar Al-Joundi, has spent 25 years doing the opposite: conservative guidance, disciplined acquisitions, consistent execution on production targets, and cost discipline maintained through cycles.
Culture compounds.
What the Q1 Print Just Showed
The Q1 2026 results landed at the end of April and prove the discipline frame.
All-in sustaining costs (ASIC) came in at $1,483 an ounce, up 26% from a year ago, and total cash costs at $1,093 an ounce.
And dealing with industry-wide cost inflation, Agnico still tracks inside its own full-year guidance of $1,400 to $1,550.
More importantly, $1,483 AISC ranks among the best of any senior gold producer in the world. The competition is fighting the same inflation with worse cost structures.
Run the math at $4,600 gold. A senior miner with $1,483 AISC generates more than $3,100 of gross margin on every ounce produced. Agnico produced 825,109 ounces last quarter alone.
The rest of the print reflected that math. Record operating margins, record adjusted net income, record EBITDA.
The company returned about $375 million to shareholders through the dividend and buybacks, and management announced an expansion of the share repurchase program of up to $2 billion.
Generate the cash. Return the cash. Stay disciplined. Don’t chase. The cycle-top playbook executed to perfection.
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Build, Don’t Buy
The growth pipeline carries the other half of the case. Discipline shows up in what they build, not just in what they avoid.
Agnico has guided to 20 to 30% production growth over the next decade, almost entirely from organic projects and bolt-on consolidation rather than expensive acquisitions.
The recent Finnish land consolidation unlocks a new 500,000-ounce-per-year multi-mine platform.
The Hope Bay redevelopment in the Canadian Arctic continues to advance, and the company believes they can produce gold there for under $1,000 an ounce despite the location, because of operational expertise the rest of the senior space simply doesn’t have.
Most senior miners grow by writing checks at the top. Agnico grows by drilling around what they already own and consolidating land in jurisdictions they already understand.
The Discipline Frame
Retail investors make the same mistake at every cycle top. They get greedy with the wrong names because the wrong names happen to be working. Then the cycle turns and the wrong names crater. On Wall Street, pigs get slaughtered.
The old saying is cliché but true, and especially true in mining, where the next downturn is never a question of if.
Surviving the top means owning operators with a 25-year record of not doing the dumb thing when gold gets euphoric. Agnico Eagle fits that description.
If you want to own just one producing gold miner in your portfolio, make it this one.
YOUR ACTION PLAN
Agnico is one piece of how I am positioning across commodities, energy, and the broader macro trade right now.
The full read on where the senior space is heading next, the names I’m watching for the next pullback, and the trades I’m setting up around the cycle can be found live inside the War Room.
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