who  owns  brex  mines  at present?
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Bre-X Minerals Ltd., a member of the Bre-X group of companies, was a junior Canadian mining company that was once reported to be sitting on an enormous gold deposit at Busang, Indonesia (on Borneo). Bre-X bought the Busang site in March 1993 and in October 1995 announced significant amounts of gold had been discovered, sending its stock price soaring. Originally a penny stock, its stock price reached a peak at $286.50 (Canadian dollars) on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), with a total capitalization of over $6 billion Canadian dollars.\n\nThe gold reserves at Busang were alleged to be 200 million ounces (6,200 t), or up to 8% of the entire world's gold. However, it was a massive fraud and there was no gold. The core samples had been faked by salting them with outside gold. An independent lab later claimed that the faking had been poorly done, including the use of shavings from gold jewelry. In 1997, Bre-X collapsed and its shares became worthless, in one of the biggest stock scandals in Canadian history.\nContents\n[hide]\n\n    * 1 History\n    * 2 Unraveling of the fraud\n    * 3 The aftermath\n    * 4 Books\n\n[edit]\n\nHistory\n\nDavid Walsh founded Bre-X Minerals Ltd. in 1989 as a subsidiary of Bresea Resources Ltd. The company did not make a significant profit before 1993, when Walsh followed the advice of prospector John Felderhof and bought a property in the middle of a jungle near Busang River in Borneo, Indonesia. When they hired Filipino geologist Michael de Guzman to evaluate the site, the results were impressive: the first estimate was 17 million ounces of gold, at the time worth $25 billion, which would have made it the richest gold deposit ever.\n\nThe estimate of the site's worth increased over time; in 1995 it was 30 million ounces (900 t); in 1996, 60 million (1,900 t); finally, in 1997, 200 million ounces (6,200 t). The stock price of Bre-X rose to $280 per share by 1997 (split adjusted) and at its peak it had a market capitalization equal to US$4.4 billion. As the estimated size of the deposit grew, so did the stock price and the hysteria. Junior energy and mining stocks usually flounder and are ignored by the financial establishment, but the immensity of this opportunity was too great for the big players to ignore. In a greedy frenzy the Toronto Stock Exchange listed Bre-X in its premium TSE 300 index, and there was real talk about adding it to the Dow Jones Industrial Average.\n\nSome other mineral companies, including BHP Billiton organized failed takeovers, but the Indonesian government of president Suharto also got involved. Stating that a small company like Bre-X could not exploit the site by itself, the Indonesians suggested that Bre-X share the site with the large Canadian mining firm Barrick Gold, in association with Suharto's daughter Siti Rukmana. Bre-X hired Suharto's son Sigit Hardjojudanto to handle their side of the affair. Mohamad Hasan, another Suharto acquaintance, negotiated a deal whereby Bre-X would have a 45% share, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold would run the mine and Hasan would get a cut as well. Bre-X would have the land rights for 30 years. The deal was announced February 17, 1997 and Freeport-McMoRan began the final evaluation of the site.\n[edit]\n\nUnraveling of the fraud\n\nThe fraud began to unravel on March 19, 1997 when Filipino Bre-X geologist Michael de Guzman jumped to his death (or was pushed) from a helicopter in Indonesia. His body was found four days later in the jungle, mostly eaten by animals and identified from molars and a thumbprint. (On May 12, 2005, however, the National Post published a front-page story asking if de Guzman might still be alive; one of his multiple wives claimed to have received a Brazilian money order from him, dated February 2005.)\n\nOn March 26 the American firm Freeport-McMoRan, a prospective partner in developing Busang, announced that its own due-diligence core samples showed "insignificant amounts of gold". A
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As I understand it, they are owned by the monarch (in this case, Queen Elizabeth II) but she does not have the legal right to sell them - in essence, she owns them because she personifies the nation but not as an individual.
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give me a break.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nthere is actually no new deal being made.  The British comapany that already manages the ports is being bought out by a corporation owned primarily by citizens of the United Arab Emarites.  The question at hand is wether or not to try to get out of our contract.  Since the British company will still be managing our ports, there is no reason to suspect that a terrorist plot is going on.  Micheal Moore Edits Answers that he doesn't like from his films and usually slants what is included.  Maybe if you read somthing other than Liberal propaganda (including the textbooks found in public and some private schools) you would get the whole story.
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Write to:\nInvestor Relations\nTyco International\nSecond Floor, 90 Pitts Bay Road\nPembroke, HM 08, Bermuda\n\nand explain the issue to them with all facts including years you worked for the division, how many shares, etc.
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Their Main head office is based in Birmingham, England in a town called Bourneville which was built for the workers at the plant. If you want further information you might want to try contacting them there.
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The "untouchables", due to them owning our cash, are Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, India, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia.  The rest of the world is pretty much put on the list as "useful puppets" or "bugs not yet squished" (guess which list Britain is on).
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Germany right now. \n\nClick on the link for updated counts.
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The company in Dubai that wanted to buy the ports from Great Britain own ports around the world. They are a reputable company, and I am sure it all boiled down to the all mighty dollar, or pound sterling as the case may be. You have to remember that it was not the government of Great Britain selling the ports, but a company based in Great Britain. I am sure we have many corporations and business in America that do business that the government would not approve of.
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It was owned by Harry Bailey.  You can read more about it at the link below.
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British Petroleum,which stock holders are from various countries,but why be alarmed over that when our senate and president were bought by mexico at a very cheap price
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As of today, their market capital is $288.71 billion, with 10.33 billion outstanding shares.\n\nVerify this at MarketWatch.com:http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/profile.asp?sid=3140&symb=MSFT&siteid=mktw
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It was Dayton Hudson Corporation back in the 90's.  But who knows who has the controlling stock now.
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go to london metals exchange\nhttp://www.lme.co.uk/
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Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Corporation.\nThey have just merged with Barclays Bank
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I think it is Laing O'Rouke ?? Laing was a large UK construction outfit who wre taken over by O Rouke at a time when Laing were making very large losses. Laing were sold for only one £1,\nSearch for Laing on the internet.
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Bush isn't selling the ports ... they already belong to a British company that is selling them to a company from the UAE.\n\nAnd US always has and will continue to be responsible for security at the ports, regardless of what company owns them
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HM Rivergroup PLC that bought Hougton Mifflin is a newly formed holding company and  is  led by Barry O'Callaghan, a former investment banker from Ireland and a controlling shareholder of San Francisco-based Riverdeep.\n\nAfter the transaction's completion, O'Callaghan and the management group will own approximately 50 percent of the new company, while former shareholders of Riverdeep other than O'Callaghan will own about 15 percent. The remaining 35 percent will be owned by new investors. It was unclear what proportion of the 35 percent stake would be held by Houghton Mifflin management and employees.\n\nIf you are interested in the financing details, go to the RVDP Home Page - www.riverdeep.net/ - 34k - Nov 30, 2006 - Cached - Similar pages \n\ncc