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Article: Buy this stock, eh? Canada's exchanges are the Wild West up north.
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- Newsweek
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- May 5, 1997
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Canada's exchanges are the Wild West up north
WHEN INVESTORS FIRST HEARD the story of Bre-X Minerals, most were aghast. For three years the Canadian mining company claimed to own the world's biggest gold deposit, and its soaring stock turned its executives into millionaires. The gold rush ended in March, when the stock cratered after early tests found little but dirt in Bre-X's Indonesian mining site. But where journalists see a scandal with mini-series potential, Adrian du Plessis sees a familiar tale. Du Plessis spent six years as a trader on the Vancouver Stock Exchange, a market that's nicknamed "The Seam Capital of the World." Now he runs a muckraking Web ...
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Article: Bre-X Minerals Ltd.
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