Word: bre
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TORONTO: "We share the shock and dismay of our shareholders and others that the gold we thought we had at Busang now appears not to be there." That was the Captain Renault-esque reaction of Bre-X head David Walsh to an independent report calling the once highly-touted Busang, Indonesia lode the biggest scam in the history of mining. In its report released Sunday, Strathcona Mineral Services said that gold from outside sources had been added to the crushed rock core samples that Bre-X had gathered as evidence of the supposed 200 million ounces of gold at Busang...