Mining scandals: four incidents that shook the industry
11/03/2019· Bre Xs fake gold mine. In 1989, Canadian businessmen David Walsh founded the Bre X mining company, which would find itself at the centre of a scandal so infamous it inspired the 2016 film Gold.In 1993, the company bought land near the Busang River on the Indonesian island of Borneo on the recommendation of geologist John Felderhof, and within a year, the