[audio:https://c03c06.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Rick-Rule-CEO.CA-Nov-4-2013-Tommy-Humphreys-Audio.mp3] Sprott USA Chairman Rick Rule, the Carlsbad, California based natural resource financier with nearly four decades of experience, joined us for a conversation earlier today on the current mining bear market, which is approaching its third anniversary. As expected, Mr. Rule was upbeat, and sounds to be making the most of the opportunities being… Continue Reading

Kobex Minerals Inc. (TSX:KXM) has $34 million in its treasury; that’s $8.5 million more than the company’s current market cap. (46,082,413 shares out, last at $.55). KXM is effectively a cashed up shell looking for resource projects. “Kobex seeks to identify, acquire, and develop deposits which have the potential to be world class, in the… Continue Reading

“The mainstream pundits will tell you that oil is expensive now because of the unrest in Syria and Egypt,” Rick begins. “But the truth is that Syria and Egypt don’t produce much oil.” “The real reason is that there are expectations of a slowdown in oil exports brought about by the lack of sustaining capital… Continue Reading

Many analysts are claiming that new platinum ETF and trust products such as Sprott’s physical products have begun to wreak havoc on an already beat up and battered South African platinum industry.  Just as the gold ETFs did in the gold run over the last decade, these new platinum products could rip billions of investment… Continue Reading

Sprott USA Chairman Rick Rule spoke with INN’s Andrew Topf about fundamentals for a higher uranium price, and Rule characteristically provided profund commentary on the natural resources business. “This industry needs amalgamation more than anything else,” according to Rule. “There’s too much G&A across the whole mining space and combining two companies together and getting rid of one… Continue Reading

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Rick Rule rules the junior resource world with his checkbook. The acclaimed speculator has been financing mining and energy companies for nearly forty years and has the big scores and scars to prove it. From his perch as chairman of Sprott USA, the world’s best known natural resources & precious metals focused investment firm, Rule… Continue Reading

In Palm Springs last Sunday, Mercenary Geologist Mickey Fulp told California Resource Investment Conference attendees, “A large exploration discovery in a relatively unknown terrain” is what’s needed to kick off this market. Sprott Global Chairman and panel emcee Rick Rule added, “What this market needs is a very large discovery that I own the hell out of.” All… Continue Reading

Source: “Junior Venture Exchange Needs Cleansing” says Rick Rule of Sprott Global Resource Investments. Small Cap Power Q: The Canadian junior market and the resource juniors continue to struggle as investors shy away from them despite the TSX and Dow Jones trading at very good levels. When do you see the junior markets starting to perform again?… Continue Reading

This Sunday and Monday: 200 commodities companies take on Facebook. Dear Readers, I’d like to take this opportunity to invite you to the World Resource Investment Conference this Sunday and Monday in Canada’s Vancouver Convention Centre (East). Headlining the free event are financial entrepreneurs Peter Schiff, Doug Casey, Rick Rule and Frank Holmes. The metals equities specialists join representatives from more than 200 natural resources companies and… Continue Reading