{"url":"https://etfiq.com/rankings/themes-cheapest-gold","section":"rankings","title":"The cheapest gold miners ETFs | ETFIQ","description":"The cheapest gold miners ETFs, ranked by the annual fee the fund charges, as of Oct 9, 2026. 10 funds from ETFIQ\u2019s own published figures.","as_of":"Oct 9, 2026","structured_data":[{"@type":"ItemList","name":"The cheapest gold miners ETFs","numberOfItems":10,"itemListOrder":"https://schema.org/ItemListOrderDescending","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"AUAU","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/auau"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"AUMI","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/aumi"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"RING","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/ring"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"GDMN","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/gdmn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"SGDM","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/sgdm"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":6,"name":"SGDJ","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/sgdj"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":7,"name":"GDX","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/gdx"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":8,"name":"GDXJ","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/gdxj"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":9,"name":"GOEX","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/goex"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":10,"name":"GBUG","url":"https://etfiq.com/funds/gbug"}]},{"@type":"Dataset","name":"The cheapest gold miners ETFs","description":"The cheapest gold miners ETFs, ranked by the annual fee the fund charges, as of Oct 9, 2026. 10 funds from ETFIQ\u2019s own published figures.","url":"https://etfiq.com/rankings/themes-cheapest-gold","dateModified":"2026-10-09","creator":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org"},"license":"https://etfiq.com/license/","isAccessibleForFree":true,"creditText":"ETFIQ (etfiq.com)","publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org"},"inLanguage":"en","creativeWorkStatus":"Published","distribution":[{"@type":"DataDownload","encodingFormat":"application/json","contentUrl":"https://etfiq.com/data/thematic.json"}],"variableMeasured":["Weight overlap with the S&P 500","Active share","Holdings","Top ten share of the fund","Total return","Fee for the differing part","Expense ratio"],"keywords":["exchange-traded funds","ETF","Thematic ETFs","fund data","SEC filings"]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"ETFIQ","item":"https://etfiq.com/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Rankings","item":"https://etfiq.com/rankings/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"The cheapest gold miners ETFs","item":"https://etfiq.com/rankings/themes-cheapest-gold"}]},{"@type":"WebPage","name":"The cheapest gold miners ETFs","description":"The cheapest gold miners ETFs, ranked by the annual fee the fund charges, as of Oct 9, 2026. 10 funds from ETFIQ\u2019s own published figures.","url":"https://etfiq.com/rankings/themes-cheapest-gold","dateModified":"2026-10-09","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"speakable":{"@type":"SpeakableSpecification","cssSelector":[".lede"]},"publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org"}}],"characters":2985,"truncated":false,"content":"ETFIQ / Rankings / The cheapest gold miners ETFs \n \n As of Oct 9, 2026 . Rebuilt every trading night.\n The cheapest gold miners ETFs\n A fee is one fact and not a verdict on the fund. Where the funds on a theme hold different companies, the cheapest is not even the same bet, and the holdings are on the theme page.\n The cheapest gold miners ETFs, ranked by the annual fee the fund charges, as of Oct 9, 2026. Source: ETFIQ. # Ticker Fund Fee Net assets Weight in S&P 500 companies Total return, 1Y \n 1 AUAU Global X Gold Miners ETF 0.35% $6m 12.9% too new \n 2 AUMI Themes Gold Miners ETF 0.35% $25m 0.0% +17.0% \n 3 RING iShares MSCI Global Gold Miners ETF 0.39% $2.3bn 17.0% +22.8% \n 4 GDMN WisdomTree Efficient Gold Plus Gold Mine 0.45% $210m 12.4% +8.8% \n 5 SGDM Sprott Gold Miners ETF 0.46% $638m 7.6% +23.9% \n 6 SGDJ Sprott Junior Gold Miners ETF 0.50% $323m 0.0% +29.1% \n 7 GDX VanEck Gold Miners ETF 0.51% $26.1bn 11.2% +18.9% \n 8 GDXJ VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF 0.52% $8.2bn 0.0% +17.1% \n 9 GOEX Global X Gold Explorers ETF 0.65% $118m 0.0% +23.0% \n 10 GBUG Sprott Active Gold & Silver Miners ETF 0.90% $170m 3.3% +24.2% \n \n Method\n The 10 of 10 ETFs in the gold miners theme that publish an expense ratio, cheapest first. Across the funds listed here the annual fee runs from 0.3% to 0.9%. A fee is the one number a fund controls and the one a holder pays whatever happens. The ranking is the published field sorted, nothing else: no scoring, no weighting and no view on any fund. Every fund ETFIQ covers in this category is eligible, including funds that have closed, because leaving them out would flatter the category.\n Where to next\n Every gold miners ETF and what it holds The largest gold miners ETFs Where these figures came from\n Fund holdings from SEC Form N-PORT and from the issuers own daily files SEC EDGAR, full-text search of fund filings SEC Form N-PORT, what a fund filed it holds Rule 19a-1, what a distribution notice must say ETFIQ links to the documents behind every figure; a link is not an endorsement.\n A ranking is not a recommendation and no order on this site is an opinion. ETFIQ is an independent publisher, not an adviser. Standards and sources \n Cite this page. 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