{"id":369632,"date":"2016-05-12T21:35:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T01:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=369632"},"modified":"2016-05-12T21:55:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T01:55:04","slug":"the-legend-of-bre-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=369632","title":{"rendered":"The Legend of  BRE-X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In about 1994 I subscribed to Doug Casey&#8217;s Mining Digest<\/p>\n<p>It was delivered by &#8220;Pony Express&#8221; mail<\/p>\n<p>I usually got it 2 weeks after it was published<\/p>\n<p>I vividly remember the hype and buzz around junior AND OBSCURE MICRO MINERS AT THAT TIME<\/p>\n<p>Casey actually visited the companies he recommended <\/p>\n<p>I also vividly remember the first report I got<\/p>\n<p>It had a list of about 60 miners. he recommended choosing 1\/3 of them randomly as they were all great potential stories<\/p>\n<p>I did that . Unfortunately&#8230;I passed on one called Bre-X at about 30 something cents<\/p>\n<p>And Now&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..The rest of the story<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ZUHFsGr6wQ\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/bre-x-scandal-history-timeline\/\">Bre-X Scandal: A History Timeline<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Bre-X Scandal: A History Timeline&#8221; &#8212; Visual Capitalist\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/bre-x-scandal-history-timeline\/embed\/#?secret=7ulULECnxZ#?secret=ZUHFsGr6wQ\" data-secret=\"ZUHFsGr6wQ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Just so we all know what kinds of business we may be investing in<\/p>\n<p>Now its 20 plus years since Bre-X &#8230;here we go again ?<\/p>\n<p>I bet one of Spock&#8217;s Rocks will follow a similar path<\/p>\n<p>Which one will it be&#8230;and will  we recognize when the helicopter is Revving up ?<\/p>\n<p>ADDENDUM : I DID FINALLY BUY BRE-X AT $2 ON THE WAY DOWN (5000 shares)<\/p>\n<p>In 3 weeks it was worth zero . I had the share certs believe it or not&#8230;lost them  in a move<\/p>\n<p>Fully<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In about 1994 I subscribed to Doug Casey&#8217;s Mining Digest It was delivered by &#8220;Pony Express&#8221; mail I usually got it 2 weeks after it was published I vividly remember the hype and buzz around junior AND OBSCURE MICRO MINERS &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=369632\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}