The Toronto Stock Exchange, often the scene of frenzied trading, had never seen anything like it. In a single day last week, 14.8 million shares changed hands for the heaviest trading day in the exchange's history. On the floor, traders surged around trading posts, rushed madly from booth to booth waving order slips and shouting at the top of their lungs. The heavy trading was touched off by reports of a rich drill hole in a copper vein discovered more than a fortnight ago in the Mattagami area of Quebec by New Hosco Mines Ltd., a smalltime mining outfit....
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