After gold plummeted below $1,600 per ounce to hit a six-month low Wednesday, its fundamentals remained strong, Rick Rule of Sprott Asset Management said.
"I think the technical are scary, but the fundamentals are pretty good. What you find in gold bull markets is retrenchments are fairly frequent, and this is nothing particularly unusual," he said.
On CNBC's "Fast Money," Rule noted that recent declines in gold have sent the precious metal lower by as much as 10 to 15 percent, after which prices rebounded.
"It's worth noting, of course, that the fundamentals are excellent," he added. "Gold is denominated in U.S. dollars, and the government seems to be doing their best to depreciate the denominator."
Rule said that the long-term outlook for gold remained, brushing off the latest drop in gold prices that put the commodity near its "death cross."
(Read More: Gold's 'Death Cross' Isn't All Investors Are Worried About)
A "death cross" occurs when an asset's 50-day moving average drops below its 200-day moving average, signaling the start of a bear market.
"Corrections are normal and healthy in a bull market," Rule said.
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