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GerryC t1_iwgx87z wrote

Reply to comment by -domi- in TIL Of the Bre-X fraud. The Canadian mining company was a penny stock that reportedly found billions of dollars of gold in Indonesia. The stock skyrocketed but collapsed following the suicide of one of the geologists and discovery that the core samples were salted. by jamescookenotthatone

They loaded shotgun shells with real gold and fired them into the vein. When the samples are taken, there is now far more gold present in the verified sample.

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