Ann: Bird in Hand Gold Project Application Refused, page-25

This was always a speculative investment, but now that all of these years of work and ticking of every box has failed I believe that by this airy fairy 'decision' the Minister has trashed the company through absolutely no fault of their own. It sounds like another case of a fired up lynch mob mindlessly went about their senseless rampaging until their potential few votes swayed the whole deal, no facts, all unfounded and unreasonable emotion.

Perhaps in the future the lynch mob could kindly do their thing before a cent of money is wasted on any new venture in their area. It's the only solution that makes sense, not now, but in this case all of those years ago when an ethical company layed down the very first plans to mine gold in the Woodside area.