How Nevada Mining Companies Stayed Afloat During the COVID-19 Storm
The mining sector has always had a robust culture of disaster preparedness, safety and health awareness, given its familiarity with the volatility of the markets and its innate inelastic supply and demand. However, the coronavirus outbreak last year resulted in an unprecedented downturn in almost all economic activities, including mining operations. A few weeks after the outbreak was declared a pandemic, market capitalization lost over a third of its value, and many speculated that a great depression would occur in the future. Instead, a survey of Nevada’s mining sector shows that consequences of the coronavirus, which included decreases in the…