Other Swindles

Bre-X, Indonesia In the 1990s, some Canadian promoters claimed that their mineral concession in Indonesia contained one of the world’s largest gold deposits. 

Mississippi Bubble One of history’s most famous financial manias gripped France in the early 1700s. It was based on a phony assay that supposedly found rich silver ore in what is now Illinois.

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