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In mining, the safest bets are the royalty and streaming (R&S) companies that don’t actually mine metal themselves but contract with other mines to take part of their future output. Here's why.

Precious metals royalty and streaming companies represent a very interesting sub-industry of the precious metals mining industry. To track the overall performance of the whole sub-industry, I created a capitalization-weighted index (the Precious Metals Royalty and Streaming Index) consisting of 15 companies.