Those ’70s Stories: Gold Heists and Hijinks
After a series of odd jobs, young Glenn Smith landed employment at Con Mine in the winter of 1973, where one of his jobs was polishing gold bricks worth almost half-a-million dollars by today’s prices
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The Ever-Expanding Ekati Fire: What the Hell Next?
It started small. In the early afternoon of Thursday, June 23, a Dominion Diamond Corporation press release noted that there’d been a “morning fire” during a planned outage at around 7 am. The mine’s incident management team had managed the incident. Its emergency response team had responded. No one was hurt. A few days later,