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Salting is considered a form of confidence trick and has been employed throughout history to defraud stakeholders in the mining industry. Examples are the diamond hoax of 1872 and the former Canadian gold company Bre-X .
Xstrata plc was an Anglo-Swiss multinational mining company headquartered in Zug, Switzerland and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. [2] It was a major producer of coal (and the world's largest exporter of thermal coal), copper, nickel, primary vanadium and zinc and the world's largest producer of ferrochrome. [2]
When cryptocurrencies first launched, it was relatively easy -- albeit expensive -- to set up a mining operation in your home and earn as much as 50 bitcoin every 10 minutes. Today's miners earn ...
Scatha may refer to: . Scatha the Worm, a fictional dragon from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium; Scáthach, a Celtic warrior goddess from Scotland; SCATHA (Spacecraft Charging At High Altitudes), a United States Air Force satellite designed to collect data on the electrical charging of spacecraft
This list of mines in South Africa is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output.
Bitcoin (CCC:BTC) rallied in 2020 as it nearly quadrupled in price from $8,000 in January 2020 to above $31,000 in late December. It reached a new all-time high above $34,000 in 2021. An indirect ...
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Sir Michael Lawrence Davis (born 15 February 1958) is a British South African businessman, financier, philanthropist, and former politician. [2] [3] Davis was the chief executive (CEO) of Xstrata plc, an Anglo-Swiss multinational mining company, until its merger with Glencore in 2013, and former chief executive and treasurer of the Conservative Party.