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Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Company; H. ... Inmet Mining; K. Kerr Addison Mines Ltd. L. Fred La Rose; M. McIntyre Mines; John McMartin (Canadian ...
Salting is considered a form of confidence trick and has been employed throughout history to defraud stakeholders in the mining industry. Examples are the diamond hoax of 1872 and the former Canadian gold company Bre-X .
The Foundation Company of Canada Limited was a Canadian construction company that operated from 1924 to 1999. The company's origins lay in New York City, where the Foundation Company was founded in 1902. In 1909, Foundation was invited by the Canadian Pacific Railway to build caissons as part of the construction on Windsor Station in Montreal ...
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Bre-X Minerals Ltd., a major part of Bre-X based in Calgary, was involved in a major gold mining scandal when it reported it was sitting on an enormous gold deposit at Busang , East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Bre-X bought the Busang site in March 1993 and in October 1995 announced significant amounts of gold had been discovered, sending its stock ...
The Spanish Prisoner scam—and its modern variant, the advance-fee scam or "Nigerian letter scam"—involves enlisting the mark to aid in retrieving some stolen money from its hiding place. The victim sometimes believes they can cheat the con artists out of their money, but anyone trying this has already fallen for the essential con by ...
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This is an incomplete list of mines in British Columbia, Canada and includes operating and closed mines, as well as proposed mines at an advanced stage of development (e.g. mining permits applied for). Mines that are in operation are in bold. Past producers which are under re-exploitation, re-development and/or re-promotion are in italics. Also ...