New podcast on one of the biggest goldmining frauds of all time
A co-production from the BBC World Service and CBC investigates what was originally thought to be the biggest gold discovery in history.
The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam hosted by Suzanne Wilton tells of when Canadian mining company Bre-X announced to the world that it had found a large deposit of gold, deep in the jungles of Indonesia in 1995. Stock prices soared, as investors worldwide fought for their stake. But not everything was as it seemed.