Yet over the past 12 months, earnings of gold and silver miners have dropped 8%, according to data from Multex.

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Jaroslaw Czarzasty , the global estimates manager at Multex, says half of the publicly traded companies in the U.S. are either losing money or breaking even on a trailing 12-month GAAP earnings basis.

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