Are the bears clawing?

So, it seems there's more and more commentary about the bull run coming to a rapid end, FAANG stocks plummeting and tech stocks impending doom. Not experienced enough to know who to believe, but advice at the moment is that it might be a good time to put money in gold. But that seems kind of boring! So I thought "what about gold mining?"
Who here has experience of a bear market, and how that impact gold mining companies, and how does that experience relate to NML given their "exploration" status.