Mining the Share market, not Uranium

AUGUST 31, 2008

In a quiet corner of the Flinders Ranges South Australia, Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary, a massive cleanup of low-level radioactive waste is about to begin. 30,000 bags of sample core waste and mining refuse were dumped strategically close to a major floodway in a sanctuary of world significance alongside Mount Gee. While the whereabouts of stolen fluorite deposits remain unknown, the peculiar Marathon Resources toys relentlessly with the concept of continuing this onslaught on Mount Gee. But why? With low yield deposits and sharemarket statements claiming no open-cut mining would occur, nothing short of a project matching the London Underground would see any yellow cake brought to the surface, despite twenty-eight drill holes and regular buoyant statements to the sharemarket faithful who must be shrugging their shoulders, as this is one share market scam that has already been mined.

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