You know boys sadly none of this is new. Mining has always been the habitat of fraudsters since Victorian times and probably before. London’s Leicester square was bought out of the proceeds of fraudulent mining and water schemes.
One of which was the Cadiz Water Works Company.
Even Nordstrom wouldn’t have the nerve for that - or would he? The Minmet bio leech water treatment principle perhaps? A company bringing clear, clean water, at low cost, to the inhabitants of Bongobongo land.