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Not for the first time lol Risk.Manager I don't understand your post.

What has happened to CP52?? All his posts seem to have disappeared.

Did somebody clype to lse about the barney with BBB? Did it breach some guidelines? Or is the company annoyed that this board learned more about the plans for the small scale launch from him than from the company itself? If not either of those, then what?

Spoiler: sometimes IT and I don't see eye to eye so I could be wrong....but don't think so on this occasion.

Isn't it simply some investors sell on the news, conditioned to do so like a Pavlov dog? News? Sell.

Yes it's frustrating but only a minor irritation in what's mapping out to be our very own 20-year Odyssey.

The rollercoaster metaphor in the BBC article made me think it's been more like a nine-year bungee jump! - with the elastic only beginning to tighten in the autumn last year.

I don't think they could have held back any longer.

The first pour was scheduled for late last year! Then February, then shunted to May and then the plandemic meant it was delayed again. Missing St Andrew's Day would have damaged credibility in my opinion. It had to happen.

We heard (on this board rather than from the company) that there were cameras recording the event so at some point in the future those pictures will likely be used but surely the sooner and closer to the actual first pour, the better.

The party - Covid presumably meant it couldn't be in line with what we all had hoped for but what did happen looks like it has left us all with the feeling wives and girlfriends have experienced since the Garden of Eden: was that it?

https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/935500/scotgold-resources-says--all-the-work-has-paid-off--after-celebrating-first-gold-pour-at-cononish-935500.html

This journalist commented on the SGZ twitter feed -

https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/18912913.first-gold-poured-cononish-mine-landmark-company-scotland/

Good stuff.

Given it is the BBC this will be seen by a lot of people

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-54886709

The news is filtering out.

https://www.miningweekly.com/article/first-gold-comes-out-of-scotland-gold-mine-2020-12-01/rep_id:3650

It will yayay - I'd just got some popcorn.

But seriously it's great to see a decade's worth of dreams come to reality with the market viewing our worth at an impressive 0.42% higher today.

https://twitter.com/scotgoldresltd/status/1333721691734806528?s=21

The Eagle has landed

....but it's still "set to produce " rather than "has produced". Might that change later today?

https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/18909912.scotgold-set-produce-first-gold/

'has hailed' in the sub-heading but still tantalisingly 'on the brink' within the quotation marks in the text.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/milestone-as-first-gold-comes-out-of-cononish-mine-in-trossachs-park-after-years-of-preparation/ar-BB1btYif

With A and B and EWT and oil and gas or only gas which is definite(?) with no oil - or is that what one of the sidetracks still hopes to find? and another sidetrack at Biscathorpe at some time in the future, and hoping for something somewhere by mid December, and stopping over the Christmas period, and something else not happening for a couple of years I found myself more confused after listening to that interview than I was before.

I thought the interviewer looked totally dazed as well.

I'm flummoxed.

The big day and there hasn't actually been any official confirmation that it happened. I cannot think of what the reasoning for this would be.

If today isn't the day to make a huge song and dashing white sergeant about the mine when is?

Tomorrow it is then..........

Fully understand that CP52 but all those things must have been taken into account in the grand plan for today - Covid isn't a surprise.

The totality of what we've had today so far is one Radio Scotland interview.

If the news is embargoed until 14:00 or another time this afternoon, wonderful. Brilliant. Fervently hope that's the case. Tomorrow is not St Andrew's Day and looking back on today tomorrow will not have the same punch.

No Tyndrum water of life for me so it's either an Aberfeldy 18 years in oak (an airport special) or a beautifully boxed Dalmore King Alexander 111 which I've kind of been keeping intact until my youngest son reaches his 18th birthday.

Slàinte and good luck everyone.

We're going in.

"anybody who has interest in Scotgold already knows"

It's that number which should rise exponentially, to use a topical phrase.

Nothing breeds success like success and the herd will arrive en masse.

Check her pockets on the way out whatever her means of transport.

Well I've kind of been betting against that low range for a long time.

Tomorrow should kick off national news and local news coverage - tv and radio - printed media, tip sheets, the documentaries, interviews, mining magazines , gold-related publications, shares magazines, jewellery magazines, international publications, travel for example, with a fondness for Scotland...the syndicated press have already run the same story about us in Spanish and French.

All that - and that was just off the top my head - will surely catapult us to a new and much higher plateau.