Another reason was the scandal over Bre-X Minerals, a Canadian firm that falsely claimed to have discovered a huge gold deposit in Indonesia.
另一个原因是加拿大Bre - X公司的矿业丑闻，该公司曾慌称在印尼发现一个巨大的金矿。
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Unlike the Bre-X scam, the company's Wyoming land does indeed have rare earths, but they are in small concentrations and are mostly the less-desirable sub-group of the elements.