I Asked Rick Rule a Question the Mining Industry Keeps Avoiding
March 13, 2026
This was, by most accounts, the most crowded and buoyant PDAC in years (maybe ever?). Sushi and lobster at cocktail receptions were the normal thing, and that’s historically been a reliable contrarian indicator, according to the veterans I spoke to. Rick Rule, who said this is his fourth real bull market and expects it to be the second most dramatic of his career after the 1970s, was the most quotable voice of the bunch and set the intellectual tone for most of the conversations that followed.
