Unspoken Lies
S1 : E3
TV-PG | 48 min | Aired: 07.28.99
A frenzy of investment surrounded the Windfall Mines Company in the 1950s. The owners, George ad Viola McMillan, seemed to be sitting on a fortune. Yet very little information about the contents of the mines was getting out, only speculation. When it was proved that the mine was empty and the scam had caused thousands of investors to lose millions, Viola McMillan was put behind bars. Such disasters were never to take place again. In the 1990s, rumoured gold in the Indonesian hills created instant millionaires until the truth appeared and billions of dollars were lost. Now it is Bre-X that has changed the mining world forever.
