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Mickey Fulp: “Things Are Looking Up in the Junior Sector”

Source: The Gold Report

Well-known and highly regarded throughout the mining and exploration community, Mercenary Geologist Mickey Fulp returns to tell The Gold Report readers about his growing Primer for the Lay Investor, share his musings on the junior resource sector and even hand out a few nugget-shopping suggestions.

The Gold Report: The third installment in your A Primer for the Lay Investor series, “ The Good, the Bad, and the Butt Ugly ” appeared in The Gold Report on February 24. What’s the short story there?

Mickey Fulp: The piece deals with junior resource companies, metal commodities and flagship projects. The gist is that certain…

11Mar2009 | The Gold Report | 0 comments | Continued

The Investment Bedrock of Monetary Systems

“How To Preserve Wealth During Crises… And Why Central Banks Are Bad For Your Financial Health”

Last week we talked about the grave dangers of a Depression and recent media discussion as to whether or not we’re about to enter one (or already are). That of course raises the question: if worst comes to worst, how did investors survive the last one?

We don’t have the time or space to go into every possible detail of a comprehensive comparison and contrast between the 1930’s and today. Instead, let’s focus our efforts and take a look at historical charts like this one:

DJIA vs Homestake Mining

If you were…

19Feb2009 | Oxbury Research | 0 comments | Continued

Rick Rule on Commodities: Be Prudent, Study Hard, and Take Advantage of Volatility

Source: The Gold Report  

Investor Rick Rule, founder of Global Resource Investments, is legendary in the mining, energy, and exploration business. In this edited transcript from a presentation (10/10/08) for clients, Rule shares his thoughts on the current situation. Rick founded GRI in the late 1970s, in middle of a commodities price boom, and led it though the subsequent recession of the early 1980s and all the economic ups and downs since then. The excerpt below, edited for length and clarity, focuses on his outlook for commodities.

. . . I expect the outlook for commodities to be good relative to other…

7Nov2008 | The Gold Report | 1 comment | Continued

Deep-Sea Mining

Top Profits at the Bottom of the Ocean

This deal is a must-own for your portfolio…

But before I tell you what it is, I want to give you a sense of how big this really is: It’s exactly like being there for the birth of the offshore oil and gas industry.

This industry, born of the 1970s energy crisis, now produces about a third of the world’s oil output. But back in the ‘40s and ‘50s, it was still a frontier…a pipe dream, to many.

Geologists today know of some 115 billion barrels of oil and 633 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves…

14Aug2008 | Whiskey and Gunpowder | Comments Off | Continued
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