Gold stocks sizzled this week, and although stocks across the industry rallied, one look at the weekly performance revealed an interesting side of things: Small-cap, mid-cap, and lesser-known names surged the most and outperformed their larger counterparts.

For perspective, here's a list of some of the best-performing gold stocks for the week as of 12:30 p.m. ET Friday, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence.

After this week's rally, DRDGOLD has also emerged as the top-performing gold stock of 2023 so far -- it's up a staggering 75% this year, as of this writing. No, the company didn't announce any financial or operational update this week. In fact, SSR Mining and Equinox Gold were the only stocks among these six to release earnings this week.

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