The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam: 3. The battle for Busang
World Of Secrets
BBC
4.7 • 765 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
As the value of the Indonesian gold discovery skyrockets, it’s not just everyday investors who want in. Powerful players are drawn into the fight for the gold in Busang. But Bre-X, a small company, has only ever traded as a penny stock. Can it stand up to powerful rivals and play in the big leagues?
The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam was first published in May 2024.
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| 0:38.0 | From the BBC's Investigations podcast, World of Secrets, here's the third episode of our guest |
| 0:43.7 | season, the $6 billion gold scam from the BBC World Service and CBC. |
| 1:00.4 | Well, the first trip that I made out there was sort of a familiarization trip. |
| 1:02.3 | We needed to do some work. |
| 1:05.2 | We needed to find out what exactly was going on. |
| 1:10.0 | Just to kind of get a feel for the place and to meet the people. |
| 1:18.8 | Dave Potter was a geologist with Freeport, a big U.S. mining company. |
| 1:23.2 | He wanted to check out the mine site in case Freeport made a deal with Preyx. |
| 1:25.3 | He chapered out to Buse. |
| 1:32.1 | When I got off the helicopter, I looked at the camp, and the camp was pretty well squared away. |
| 1:35.1 | I was pretty impressed with the job that they'd done. |
| 1:40.9 | It was obviously a camp that they'd been in for a while, and they turned it into a home, if you will. |
| 1:41.6 | There was a lot of busyness around the camp, |
| 1:45.1 | people coming and going, and the first night |
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