BRE-X; Author: Wells, Jennifer; Hardback; Book

Author: Wells, Jennifer
Hardback; Book; B&w Photographs
404 pages
Published: January 1999
TEXERE Publishing
ISBN: 0752813641
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'Bre-X - The Inside Story of the World's Biggest Mining Scam'. Hailed as the biggest gold discovery in the world this century, worth more than 15 billion pounds, it turned out to be the biggest mining scandal of all time. This is the astonishing account of how in 1995 Bre-X Minerals, the small Canadian mining company, shot to world fame and fortune after announcing the discovery of 71 million ounces of gold at the Busang site, onIt was hailed as the biggest gold discovery in the world this century, worth more than Ł15 billion, but it turned out to be the greatest mining scandal of all time. This is the astonishing account of the how Bre-X Minerals shot to fame after announcing the discovery of gold on Borneo.