As Vitalik sais - ETC is a good coin for PoW) So you can understand that all ETH PoW lovers will jump into ETC.
ETC is one of the oldest coin and has maintained its rank in Top 20 coins on coinmarketcap. The Ethereum merge in September-22 (which has compelled miners to switch to ETC) is behind current hike as well as investment from Grey scale and Antpool. Technically speaking ,the current price of ETC is around $37 and next resistance is at $43 which is very strong. I think we should not jump in at current price and wait for it to go above $45 then it can make further gains. DYOR
The amount of price it will go up is not based on the mining alone. Because, miners may mine it, but miners will also sell it to cover their bills as well. If you are making 2k dollars per month profit from mining ETC, that means you will probably pay 1k of that to electricity alone, and that means you will have to sell your ETC to make that back.
I am not saying that it would make sense to just stop, of course you have to keep going, but ETC will not profit from this as much as people think. There isn't any added new reason for people to "buy" ETC, but if miners switch here then there will be an added reason to sell it which should hurt the price more than it helps.