A miner is a leveraged call on the metal it digs. This screen anchors each complex — gold, silver, copper, uranium, lithium — to its own metal-trend regime, then ranks producers, royalty/streaming names, developers and the buyable ETFs on whether a healthy miner has lagged a metal that is genuinely working. Operating leverage cuts both ways: leverage into a falling metal is penalised, not rewarded. Every name carries a thesis, a metal-anchored target and honest risk flags.