In the movie when Acosta and Kenny Wells took the investment firm's logistics people to Indonesia to actually look at the land, they panned the river and found a big nugget.
Is there any correlation between that and the real Bre-X story? Seems kind of pointless to stick that into the movie if it is fake, because that is some hell of some odds...
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Yes, what the real guy (De Guzman?) tried to pass off as a massive strike was river gold. There was a scene in the movie showing the difference.
shareI know that...the river gold he salted with was smoothed and not course like core sample would be.
And you didn't answer my question: Was that particular scene true to the real Bre-X story or not? Do you know what the odds of randomly panning and finding a nugget that big is?
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Haven't read any books about BreX. Maybe somebody else in the forum knows.
shareI have no idea if it's part of the real story, but either way it's ridiculous. River gold has nothing to do with hard rock mining. The only interesting part of that, ironically, is in the Bre-X story, the crushed ore was salted with river gold as an essential element of the fraud.
shareI like to read gold stories and history, but have not heard about BreX until today. River gold is related to hard rock mining as there are prospectors who find it in the river, and few have found a vein nearby. There is the tale of Carson Creek in California where this happened. The man who Carson Creek was named for, he found the river gold, the second largest nugget at the time, but he missed out on find a huge gold vein above in the hills. Instead, he followed down river and ended up poor even though the creek was named after him.
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