11.   The Indonesian government has assigned a state-owned mining company to safeguard the site of a claimed major gold find that independent testers concluded was a hoax.

12.   The president of a mining company who announced a multibillion-dollar gold find in Bolivia was cleared of violating federal securities law.

13.   The small, Calgary-based exploration company was a rising star for more than two years as it repeatedly increased claims about the huge gold find.

14.   The tract of Borneo jungle was touted to eager investors as the biggest gold find of the century.

15.   Freeport McMoRan, a US mining company brought in by Bre-X as a partner in Busang, issued a separate report describing the gold finds as negligeable.

16.   He was on his way to the site of his great discovery -- what was then billed as the richest gold find in history.

17.   His gold find, it has now been officially confirmed, does not exist.

18.   In February Boliden announced a large gold find in Aakulla Oestra in northern Sweden, near the Polar Circle, where gold reserves are estimated at about eight tonnes.

19.   Company officials boasted it was the biggest gold find in the world -- ever.

20.   Reports here and rumours on the Toronto Stock Exchange floor suggested Freeport McMoRan assessors were reporting the gold find was not as large as first thought.