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No, glen, never once in all these years. Simply because I feel I'd be out of my depth. I'm just an amateur investor, unlike all the geologists and mining engineers, etc, who make up most of the crew on here and who could engage the SGZ team in lengthy technical discussions. My degree, gained back in the mists of time, was in History, and I spent my working life mainly in the charity sector. My technical understanding and capability extends to using an Allen key, and only just at that.

I sometimes rue the day I first bought into this, glen. Must have been 2010. Never again :) Having groaned through ten years of this I'm not sure how much more groaning there is in me :)

I think it's a bit unfair to say we haven't given them a chance, napth. I think we've been fairly loyal considering the things we've been promised over the years. Like production starting in 2012.

Yes, as you know, I did suggest this could well be sub-100 before Xmas. Sad to say, it's got that feeling of inevitability about it. However we dress this up with optimism about the long-term future, the fact remains that right now this share is performing badly. We have it in view to be at 50% of the price we were only a few weeks ago. And while the unfortunate level of the placing has some responsibility for that, even 110 seems to be in danger of disappearing as a lost pinnacle.

Shush, Goodnight and Zzzz day.

"SGZ.. The Perfect Acronym for a Good Night's Sleep"

Evening, Morar, yes that does sound very impressive. It is very heartening that REAL customer service can still be found in the occasional oasis of the corporate desert. I think I might very well move to A J Bell, of whom I have heard good accounts, not just your own. I'll just wait until I've actually got these Erris shares bedded in to my existing account with Barclays, so that everything can be moved at once. After our last discussion on the subject I went on to some review site or other (can't remember which) and the uniformly scathing reviews of Barclays were legion, a whole catalogue of truly abysmal performance, with customers having to fight interminable battles, just like my own, to get whatever it was which was rightfully theirs. Shocking!

I did at least get a result with Barclays (Not So)SmartInvestor over the new shares in Erris Gold Resources. They have now received the certificate from the registrars and will be apportioning shares to individuals like myself.

So I'm dug in for this "significant Scottish goldmining industry". BTW, who was it, a couple of weeks ago, took slightly to task the news report about SGZ and Erris being competitors to make it into production first? Never underestimate SGZ's amazing capacity to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory :) Well honed since - it feels like - the days of good old King Edward.

Auntie Olive was decent, glen. But Dotty Dora, her twin and my mum? Well...

It's harder to understand than you think, Mattybee. Auntie Olive was a real person. Are Miss Wemyss and Sir Jasper real people? And how to tell the Hon. Basil (Mark 1) from the Hon. Basil (Mark 2)? Other shares are available :)

Hello Mattybee, a welcome addition to the weird and wonderful crew who make up this board, some of whom are out in the community, whereas others have not yet been deemed appropriate to leave the asylum.

Hi RM, my mother was a Chapman. Aye, they were a rogue lot, them. My Auntie Olive was devising Ponzi schemes before she was barely out of the cot :)

Much my own thoughts about that 106.50, Eck. I'd have thought you'd have needed to be overloading at least 100,000 to get such a poor price.

The final sale yesterday is said to have been at 106.50. Within 9 seconds of the market opening this morning someone bought at 119. We now - according to LSE - have a share price which is 4p more than the Ask !!

I found the Home Page a bit intimidating. "We Are Scotgold"? It scans perfectly to the old shaven-headed chant "We Are Millwall, We Are Millwall"!

Everybody 'ates us? We Don't Care?

Hi R, like other canny LTHs of SGZ I have invested a not inconsiderable amount in the purchase of a DeLorean. This way I hope -at last - to us coming into production in 2012.

Miss Wemyss also has a fall-back position. She is learning the bagpipes.

Regards, y

Welcome Tim, you are unlucky that I seem to be the only one of the LTHs online at this moment. There are many others who can give you a thorough understanding of this company and its progress in expert technical detail. As I'm sure they will when one or other of them surfaces. Just thought I'd respond to you out of courtesy, to say, simply, the mine is already operational and funding is already in place for development towards the next mine. I hope this gives you some confidence. More detailed background will follow I have no doubt. Regards.

Hello R, what can I say? That was so gracious of you. Thank you, it almost chocked me. Sums up why I've been here so long. This is not just about the company, not just about its share price. As I've said before, this board is probably unique for its camaraderie and genuine friendship amongst complete strangers.

Meanwhile... in the village. Well! A Sunday like no other before and probably none ever again! The Chapel resoundeth! The launch of the first barge on the Tyndrum Canal may have been written off as a "damp squib" in some quarters, but not as far as the Reverend Grimm and Miss Wemysss are concerned. There we were, all assembled, and awaiting our usual diet of prayer and interminable sermon, and Goodness! Instead of the usual 'O God, Our Help in Ages Past', the worthy Reverend leapt from the pulpit and Miss Wemyss started hammering on the harmonium for all she was worth, leaving the rest of us frantically turning the pages of the Methodist Hymn Book, trying to find where this 'Bohemian Rhapsody' actually appears. And then!... the Reverend threw off his clerical garb, revealing... That Costume! Good Heavens!... my poor mother, Mrs Keeper, suffered an almost terminal bout of The Vapours.

An experience that has left the village thunderstruck. It is to be earnestly hoped that Miss Wemyss' investment in the canal company comes good soon as the poor old harmonium is, as they say, fooked. The only villager (apart from Champion) who was spared this thoroughly bewildering performance was Mr Patel who is, of course, of Another Persuasion. Whilst he has been welcomed into our South Worcestershire fold, many attenders of the Chapel cannot forgive him for selling 'The Motley Fool' on the Sabbath.

I have been the Jeremiah of this board this week. I took whoever it was described our week as a "damp squib" to heart. I was never expecting to steer my yacht to the Seychelles on the back of this week's news, but I was hoping that the sp might have stabilised around 135-140.
I'm already struggling, as my truly wonderful (female) GP knows. I mentioned a few weeks ago that, apart from a Border Terrier, I have no family whatsoever in the world, so the constant Covid Doom and Gloom is sapping away what inner strength I ever had. And in these circumstances SGZ is not the place for me to be. Unlike most of you regular friends on here, I am no geologist, no engineer, no miner. Most of what you say goes way over my head. So, when I infer from all your posts that we'll now be waiting for Cononish 2, I sink to the depths. I cannot do this again. Not be here ANOTHER ten years.

Week? C'mon, Eck, when do we ever mark our lives out in weeks when it comes to SGZ? What's the name of William and Kate's firstborn? Look forward to seeing him on the throne when this comes good for us :) Good weekend, y

Hi R, we surely will all be awaiting the content of the Reverend Grimm's sermon this coming Sabbath Day. There is some apprehension in the village that he might take as his text Haggai 2:8...
"The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts".
As dear Miss Wemyss has been heard to utter, "Well, that'd fook us all up!"