Lake Victoria Gold has two projects in Tanzania: Imwelo, a fully permitted open-pit gold project located about 12 km west of AngloGold Ashanti’s Geita Gold Mine in the Lake Victoria Greenstone Belt, and Tembo, a district-scale exploration asset adjacent to Barrick’s Bulyanhulu Mine. This interview, with President and CEO Marc Cernovitch, covered the company’s path to first gold at Imwelo, its financing strategy centred on a Monetary Metals gold loan facility, ongoing sterilization and infill drilling, metallurgical results, and a near-term maiden resource at Tembo. TL;DR The story is all about whether LVG can close its Monetary Metals gold loan facility, which is described as the key trigger to order the processing plant and break ground at Imwelo. Cernovitch said they have about C$4 million in the bank from a recently closed convertible debenture (raised roughly C$3.8 million to date, targeting C$5 million), which covers preconstruction activities, but the gold