They were trying to sell their failing nickel mine ... “And then, out of the blue at 3 a.m. on Sept. 3 — after Small and his team had collected the gold, washed it down and hired a security firm to take custody of it — Selby stumbled out of bed to use the bathroom, and saw a new email from Small on his phone. He opened it to find pictures of the gold strike.
‘I almost had my own Wikipedia entry for biggest chump in the mining industry,’ Selby said.”
“I must have done some good things in a past life, to have this much good luck in this life.”
“But gold wasn’t on Selby’s mind at the time … RNC bought the mine in 2016 — when the company was still called the Royal Nickel Corp. — because it was a nickel mine, and the company was interested in developing nickel projects.”
A deal to sell a failing nickel mine fell through, then they found gold - lots of gold
https://financialpost.com/commodities/a-deal-to-sell-a-failing-nickel-mine-fell-through-then-they-found-gold-lots-of-gold