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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold and Silver Juniors, Mid-tiers and Producers

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To: marcos who wrote (45353)	7/22/2007 5:11:36 PM
From: Gib Bogle	of 78417

I followed the Bigdude link, and discovered the Bre-X board circa 1997. Ten years ago all my investments were in tech stocks, I'd never bought a Canadian stock, and although I saw references to "Bre-X scandal" occasionally", I had no idea what it was all about. It was fascinating to follow the posts on that board and see the different reactions as info started to leak out. Those (like Bigdude) who quickly saw that something was rotten and advised people to sell were subject to abuse, innuendo about shorting, and suspicions about who they were working for from the true believers. I stopped reading the posts at about #9200, with another 19000 to go. Fascinating story. Amazing that nobody was prosecuted (according to Wikipedia). Of all the posters' names that I saw, I recognized only marcos and Bearcatbob. Either the rest quit the PM boards on SI, or they changed their names - for obvious reasons.

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