WITH GOLD FIND A HOAX, BRE-X SEEKS PROTECTION.(MAIN)

Byline: Associated Press

TORONTO -- Bre-X Minerals filed for bankruptcy protection Thursday after its stock was destroyed by revelations that its much-touted gold strike on the Indonesian island of Borneo was a hoax.

Bre-X also announced it fired its senior vice president for exploration, geologist John Felderhof, who was deeply …