In 1970 a lone French prospector, Jean-Paul Turcaud, penetrated the unexplored wilderness of Australia's Great Sandy desert searching for minerals.  He was astounded at the mineral potential he believed he had discovered.

Exhausted and almost penniless he drove out of the desert and into the hottest town on earth: Marble Bar.  He needed help to develop his prospects but the representatives of the giant American company he first spoke to were not interested in what he had discovered.

Three years later the company announced the discovery of the mighty Telfer gold mine in the Great Sandy Desert and claimed they had found the mine without any input from the prospector.

Jean-Paul Turcaud found that he was one of a long list of people who claimed to have found Telfer.

So began decades of acrimony between the French prospector and mining giant.  It was a dispute that reached company boardrooms, parliamentary chambers, public servants' offices and eventually the world wide web.

The stakes were high for the Telfer mine has yielded millions of ounces of gold, thousands of tonnes of copper and there is more to come.

For the trusting prospector came the awareness that in the mining industry there is one rule:  a rule that is superior to all others.

It is known as the Golden Rule.

ISBN 085905 311 3

(2002 New), Soft Cover 282pp, illustrated 480grams $40.00* + POST

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