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By Ben Bland
Financial Times, London
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Two of the world's toughest mining tycoons battle it out with a star geologist, a chancer, and a dictator's children for control of one of the world's largest gold discoveries in the heart of the Indonesian jungle, until it is exposed as a huge fraud.

The true story of Canadian company Bre-X Minerals, which collapsed in 1997 after attaining a market capitalisation of $6 billion, reads like a movie script and the producer of hit film "Home Alone" is trying to raise $18 million from mining investors to put it on the silver screen.

Malcolm Burne, a serial mining entrepreneur and former Financial Times journalist, has given Hollywood producer Scott Rosenfelt $150,000 of seed capital and together they are tapping minerals investors from Canada to Australia to fund a film about a scandal that changed the industry. ...

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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a7c5b858-664e-11e4-...144feabdc0.html

 

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