Silence is Golden
In the financial heart of cities like Frankfurt, New York and Toronto you can sometimes see electronic symbols running across the sides of buildings or blinking on financial TV screens. They show the share price of company stock traded daily by the hour. Few know what they stand for and fewer still know what's behind them. Among them you can find GBU.TO[1]. It stands for a company called Gabriel Resources.[2]
with kind permission of Petru Mortu
A mine is a hole in the ground owned by a liar – Mark Twain
This is about what's behind this stock symbol and company. It tells a story about a plan to develop Europe's largest open-cast gold/silver mine in and around Rosia Montana,[3] a small town in northern Romania. It tells about greed, destruction and cyanide. Mostly it tells about a bunch of remarkable locals, who came together to fight for a place they call home. Their spirit inspired an entire country to join their cause. Last but not least, it tells how they succeeded; against enormous odds. For now.
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