So, inshort, EVG needs to find the hidden splinter and remove it so it can run and win the race...

Absolutely correct...I have already made my point as to who I think is to blame for the problems of this company...Look at Keegan and Ventana. Half the shares and s/p at nearly $7 and $12 respectively and their s/ps were at .15 levels as EVG was last December.... This stock has been so diluted so at every dilution point, the p.p. participants day traded the heck out of the stock to make their pennies on the share swap..Now we have Golden Predator who will probably do the same....What do we have to look forard to s/p wise? Will the $1.50 Feb warrants be played off of when they are due and create a cap on s/p? Really, what has Bick done to warrant his huge salary besides dilution? Does he even know how to properly run this kind of company? This isn't the pickle business.. He hasn't done squat for promotion that I can see. Same could be said for Barker. I feel that the shareholders have been played with all this cheap share dilution. We are at the whims of market makers. In any case, I'm long and hanging on. But management needs to get better at doing the right thing for the shareholder. And to my previous question, where is the promotion? Is management relying on the assays doing all the talk?