The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam

BBC & CBC

It was the biggest gold discovery in history... until it wasn’t. In 1995, Canadian mining company Bre-X announced to the world it had found a significant amount of gold deep in the jungles of Indonesia. Stock prices soared as investors worldwide fought to stake their claim. But when Bre-X’s chief geologist mysteriously fell from a helicopter over the jungle, the story of the billion dollar discovery began to unravel. Nearly three decades later, n...Read More

It was the biggest gold discovery in history... until it wasn’t. In 1995, Canadian mining ...Read More