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A term usually applied to gold-mining companies with a very high cost of extraction and therefore a low margin. If their cost of extraction is close to the gold price, then very small fluctuations in the gold price can easily increase or decrease their profitability substantially. This is reflected directly in their share price, which tends to fluctuate widely for relatively small changes in the gold price.

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