The precious metals mining companies do not pay generous dividends. More, they pay very poor dividends (if any). However, as the chart below shows, there were times when these companies were quite generous (I call this period "Harvest time"):
Source: Simple Digressions
Note: here is the list of big miners: Barrick (ABX), Newmont (NEM), Goldcorp (GG), Kinross (KGC), AngloGold (AU), Fresnillo (FNLPF), Agnico Eagle (AEM), Gold Fields (GFI), Randgold (GOLD), Harmony (HMY), Hochschild (HCHDF), IAMGOLD (IAG), Pan American Silver (PAAS).
Regrettably, the last harvest time was between 2011 and 2013 when the precious metals market