Goldplat plc

Notable vs. Peers

• Financials score of 8.7/10 is stronger than the peer average of 6.4/10.
• Jurisdiction risk score of 6/10 is meaningfully riskier than the peer average of 7.8/10.

Lifecycle Milestones

1. Permit granted

   Reached — date not disclosed · Goldplat's AIM admission announcement (26 July 2006) states "the environmental permits required to secure the site have been obtained" for the Tema, Ghana (GRG) gold-recovery-plant site. Exact grant date not located. · Source
2. Construction decision (FID)

   Reached — date not disclosed · Goldplat plc publicly confirmed its decision to construct a gold-recovery plant at the Free Zone Port of Tema, Ghana (later GRG) in its 26 July 2006 AIM admission announcement, stating environmental permits for the site had already been obtained and initial gold production was targeted for late 2006; the plant's CIL circuit (phase two of the development programme) was completed in December 2007 -- matching this miner's existing FIRST_PRODUCTION row (not duplicated here). On or before 26 July 2006; exact day not found. · Source
3. Construction start

   Oct 2006 · Goldplat plc's RNS of 2006-10-16, headlined 'Establishment of Ghana Operation', states verbatim: 'Goldplat plc ... is pleased to announce that construction work has now commenced in Ghana on the Group's second gold processing plant, following the completion of the acquisition of a 4.25 acre site in the free zone port of Tema.' The same release adds: 'The Directors anticipate that the plant in Tema should be able to commence operations by the end of 2006.' NOT AN ANCHOR DIVERGENCE -- unlike most of this rule's other flagged miners, Goldplat genuinely built this asset itself, so this is a true evidence gap now closed rather than a divergence. The row sits correctly inside this miner's existing chain: PERMIT_GRANTED and CONSTRUCTION_DECISION both anchor to the 26 July 2006 AIM admission announcement declaring the decision to construct at Tema, and FIRST_PRODUCTION is the December 2007 completion of the plant's CIL circuit. A construction start necessarily fell between those two points, and 2006-10-16 does. achievedDate is a real disclosed date (the RNS's own publication date, announcing commencement as an accomplished fact), not a rounded approximation. SUPERSEDES a Task #430 batch 3 RESEARCHED_UNKNOWN checked-gap AND an initial Task #700 re-confirmation of it. BOTH were correct at the time and both failed for the same reason: the two candidate sources they reached -- goldplat.com's own copy of this release and modernghana.com's report of it -- return 404 and 403 respectively, and still do. The release survives on Investegate, whose Goldplat archive requires paging back to roughly page 10 of 499 items to reach the 2006-07 tail; the company-page default view shows only recent announcements, which is why two prior passes concluded the source was unreachable. Recorded here so a third pass does not repeat the same dead ends. Sourcing: the Investegate RNS above, fetched and read directly this pass (date and headline confirmed on the page itself). Independently corroborated by Goldplat's interim results for the six months ended 31 December 2006, dated 19 February 2007 (investegate.co.uk/announcement/rns/goldplat--gdp/interim-results/723056): 'In October 2006 we acquired a 4.25 acre plot in the free zone area in Tema, Ghana, to develop a complementary recovery plant. The first phase of construction to facilitate the processing of mill liners was completed in December 2006 and is now in operation.' -- which brackets the construction start to October 2006 from the other side. · Source
4. First pour / production

   Reached — date not disclosed · Construction of the carbon-in-leach (CIL) circuit section of Goldplat's Ghana (GRG, Tema) gold-recovery plant was completed in December 2007 as planned, and the plant entered full production (24-hour, 3-shift, 7-day operation processing surface material through gravity concentration and cyanide CIL). Exact day within December 2007 not confirmed from available sourcing -- recorded reached-but-undated. (South Africa GPL plant's founding predates readily available dated sourcing; Kenya/Kilimapesa is currently EXPLORATION-status per this DB, not production -- see script header.) · Source
5. Commercial production

   Reached — date not disclosed · Genuinely reached, but no single company-wide commercial-production date exists across a genuine multi-country, multi-business-unit portfolio: Kilimapesa Gold (Kenya) commenced initial production January 2009, satisfying Mining Lease requirements per the Commissioner of Mines in July 2010; separate, distinct gold-recovery operations exist in South Africa (Goldplat's original core business) and Ghana (a distinct surface-stockpile recovery unit) with their own, different, older histories not pinned down with precision in this research. Matches the Centerra Gold/CAML/GEM precedent -- left null rather than force-fit a single date across a genuinely multi-business-unit company. This row was missing entirely prior to 2026-08-21 -- a genuine data gap, not a stage error; Miner.stage was already correctly PRODUCTION. · Source

Milestones are recorded only from a company's own dated disclosure. A milestone with no date shown is one we can confirm was reached but for which no date was disclosed — we don't estimate one. "Not yet reached" means exactly that, not that a date is missing. An "Expected" line likewise only ever reflects the company's own guidance (e.g. a study or permit decision targeted for a stated quarter) — most not-yet-reached milestones have none, and that absence means no such guidance has been disclosed, not that one is overdue.

A relative ranking of how closely this company matches the profile of juniors that have actually been acquired — not a probability, and not a reason to buy. Acquisitions are rare: only a few dozen significant deals happen a year across a universe of thousands of juniors, so even a high score here describes a long shot. The strongest signal the underlying research identifies — whether a major already holds a JV, earn-in, or 5–19.9% strategic stake — isn't tracked yet and is absent from this score.