Film Review: Bre-X goes to Hollywood in ‘Gold’
The Bre-X Minerals scam was practically made for the big screen. In 1997 many surely felt like they were living something out of a movie when 200 million ounces of…
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Bre-X film gains traction in Hollywood
The producer/director of an upcoming major motion picture based on the Bre-X Minerals fraud is in the final stages of financing and confirms he is in negotiations with an A-list Hollywood actor to play a lead role.
Interview: RPA’s Deborah McCombe on corporate disclosure’s past, present and future
Roscoe Postle Associates (RPA), one of the world’s leading mining consulting firms, presented at the recent Mineral Resource Analyst Group session in Toronto on “potential mining pitfalls”. The Northern Miner caught up with…
Editorial: Great Bre-Xpectations of a payout dashed
Just how slow do the wheels of justice turn in Canada? It was only a week ago that there was a resolution of the class-action lawsuits stemming from the Bre-X Minerals gold fraud, which was exposed in March 1997, and vapourized $3 billion in…
Letter to the editor: Felderhof article ‘offensive’
The article, “Felderhof’s new life after Bre-X,” (T.N.M., Dec. 31/12) struck me as your publication having come full circle on the biggest fraud in the history of the mining business. In late 1996 and early 1997, The…
Felderhof’s Letter to the Editor: No technical reports showed Busang gold was alluvial
I wish to point out one error which somehow crept into “Felderhof’s new life after Bre-X” (TNM, Dec. 31/12–Jan. 6/13). This concerns the comment in brackets: “using gravity concentrate and not alluvial gold,…
John Felderhof’s new life after Bre-X
John Felderhof looks much thinner than when we first met at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention in 2010.
Groia ground down but defiant after Felderhof’s Bre-X trial
Early in 2012, the Law Society of Upper Canada convicted Toronto securities lawyer Joe Groia of “incivility” during his defense of John Felderhof against quasi-criminal charges laid by the Ontario Securities Commission of insider…
John Felderhof speaks out at PDAC
“What happened to me could happen to anybody,” John Felderhof, a former geologist and senior vice-president at Bre-X Minerals, told a small group gathered in a seminar room at the recent Prospectors a…
Letter to the editor: Groia’s NI 43-101 Proposal Would Paralyze Industry
I read with astonishment the commentary “NI 43-101 gives false sense of security” ( T. N. M., Aug. 31-Sept. 6/09). While largely correct, in fact the recommendations for yet more rigid supervision of …
Letter to the Editor: Groia, MacNeil Wrong To Blame Labs In Fraud Cases
In their commentary “NI 43-101 gives false sense of security” ( T. N. M., Aug. 31-Sept. 6/09), Joseph Groia and James MacNeil make a number of comments and conclusions about the sources of fraud in th…
Commentary: NI 43-101 gives false sense of security
We read with considerable interest your editorial entitled “Crimes and rumours of crime” ( T. N. M., July 6-12/09) and the front page story “NI 43-101 to get an Overhaul” ( T. N. M., July 20-26/09) –…