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Mar 2025
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The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam: 4. Pro...

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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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