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🗓️ 17 March 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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World of Secrets presents, The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam. Bre-X’s new partners visit the Indonesian gold exploration site and make a shocking discovery. It will result in a reckoning half a world away at the mining industry’s party of the year — the Prospector and Developers Association Convention. Is the dream of a billion-dollar gold mine about to shatter?
The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam was first published in May 2024.
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0:00.0 | He tells her that she will be sent to France as a secret agent, and if she's caught, she's going to be shot. |
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0:35.3 | From the BBC's Investigations podcast World of Secrets, |
0:39.3 | here's the fourth episode of our guest season, |
0:42.0 | the $6 billion gold scam from the BBC World Service and CBC. |
0:46.7 | Over to Suzanne Wilton. |
1:00.9 | In early 1997, a fax arrived at Breaks's Jakarta office for John Felderhoff. |
1:07.0 | It was from Michael de Guzman, 854 miles away at the exploration site in Busan. |
1:12.3 | It read, sorry to disturb you, but our geology building got burned down last week. |
1:21.6 | The fire at the Boussang camp destroyed the survey office, an administrative office and a break room. |
1:25.8 | Numerous files were lost, including drill logs and maps. |
1:31.3 | One of the investment bankers who was really trying to, very hard to be involved with all of this, had arranged to visit the site and wanted to inspect the core samples. |
1:36.3 | And it was a mysterious fire that shut everything down for a while. |
1:40.3 | Paul Murphy, the Indonesian Vice President for Freeport, Brix's new partner, never really |
1:46.9 | questioned how the fire got started. |
1:49.1 | But there was so much going on at the time about the Briax frenzy that that was kind of lost |
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