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The diamond hoax of 1872 (sometimes called The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872) [1] [2] was a swindle in which a pair of prospectors sold a non-existent American diamond deposit to prominent businessmen in San Francisco and New York City.
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Charles E. Fipke Centre for Innovative Research at University of British Columbia's Okanagan campus.. Fipke was born in Edmonton, Alberta.Growing up, he was sometimes assumed to be stupid because of his "frantic stop-start mind".
Ibrahim Mahama (born 29 January 1971) is a Ghanaian businessman and founder of Engineers and Planners, [1] a West African indigenously-owned mining company. He owns other businesses in Ghana, including Dzata Cement Limited.
Boulle Mining Group Luxembourg was the largest shareholder in World Titanium Resources, [25] the Australian Securities Exchange listed [26] discoverers and owners of the Toliara Sands [27] titanium deposit in Madagascar. World Titanium Resources was delisted from ASX on 30 January 2017 and is now privately owned as World Titane Holdings Limited.
The author shares the stories of Congolese miners who have experienced life-changing injuries, sexual assault, physical violence, corruption, displacement and abject poverty. “Cobalt mining is ...
John William Mackay (November 28, 1831 – July 20, 1902) was an Irish-American industrialist who rose from rags to riches. Born into abject poverty and raised in the slums of New York City, Mackay became one of the four Bonanza Kings, a partnership which capitalized on the wealth generated by the silver mines at the Comstock Lode in Nevada, making him one of the richest Americans in his time.
The Stars Look Down is a 1935 novel by A. J. Cronin which chronicles various injustices in an English coal mining community. A film version was released in 1940, and television adaptations include both Italian (1971) and British (1975) versions.