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“We don’t want boom and bust, where one year we’re up, the next year we’re down. That doesn’t help anybody.”

Other companies have also rushed to Saskatchewan to capitalise on the boom, starting their own exploration projects in the region, while existing players re-opened dormant mines.

Within a year, Kazakhstan's Bitcoin mining industry went from boom to bust as the government imposed restrictions and increased taxes to curb the growth.

But the Twentieth Century Society has campaigned for the Centenary Building to be listed saying that it had been described in the Architect's Journal as “the best building to emerge from the new university building boom of recent years”.

The 82-year-old has overseen an economic boom that has turned to bust as a result of the now-dwindling oil reserves.