To remind people of the last blog, a small exploration company named Bre-X stumbled upon a find in a wild and desolate part of the Indonesian jungle. The reported figures of gold concentration from drilling[…]

“A lie can be so colossal that no one would believe that someone could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously”. So said Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf (see Wikipedia). This propoganda technique[…]

In Dead Man’s Gold, the Gresford disaster is an important event in Edryd (Ed) Evans’s consciousness. The gas leak and subsequent explosion killed 266 people and in terms of lives lost it was the second[…]

For some years after that meeting with Murdo at the historical society, I made an almost-yearly pilgrimage to his top loch. The long and arduous walk up the mountain to this special place always brings Murdo, his irritability[…]