extract from Article from IBT- "Scottish gold mine in trouble" -http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/43157/20100813/scottish-gold-mine-trouble.htm
...The proposal has been supported by Strathfillan Community Council, whose chairman, John Riley, said he would be lobbying hard at the board meeting at Tyndrum on August 18.
Watson, who questioned whether it would be worth 50m, said a large processing building and waste storage facility would cover about 39 hectares on the surface. It would eventually store 820,000 tonnes of residual slurry from the crushing and grinding of the ore in a dam which would be 30 metres at its highest point.
Objections have been received from 25 organisations and individuals including Scottish Natural Heritage, the John Muir Trust, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the Mountaineering Council of Scotland and the Scottish Campaign for National Parks.
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