Russian 100-Baggers & Insane Profits via Jurisdictional Contrarian Courage with Rick Rule
In this episode of Mining Stock Education, host Bill Powers interviews natural resource investing expert Rick Rule from Rule Investment Media. Rick shares how his jurisdictional contrarian courage led him to a Russian 100-bagger immediately after the fall of the Berlin wall as well as insane profits in Peru and Congo. He reflects on his 2025 portfolio performance and what he learned. Rick provides insights into the recent silver stream sales by BHP and Lundin Gold and what they mean for the industry. He comments on Lara Exploration and shares his experience with André Gaumond as Rick was the largest shareholder of Virginia Gold Mines at one point. Learn from one of the junior mining industries best participants and educators in this MSE episode.
0:00 Intro
0:26 “Third best year of my career”
5:32 Recent BHP & Lundin Gold Silver Streams
12:21 Lara Exploration
15:03 André Gaumond & Virginia Gold Mines
18:47 Investing in pure explorers
21:06 Analyst gold & silver prices for valuing miners
23:13 Precious metals euphoria
25:14 Junior Mining Management is better now than 10yrs ago
28:43 Insane profits via jurisdictional contrarian courage
33:36 Russian 100-bagger
37:57 Platinum & palladium upward move
39:24 PDAC
40:21 Why you must grow your network
44:04 Rule Investment Media offerings
