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Established in 2699, the Rotan Gold Mining Company is the only company with King Anwell’s permission to mine gold from Mount Naiva. The Crown of Rotan owns the largest share of the company, but many of the Nedgari dwarves own small shares as well. The manner in which Euvgeni, Flash, Artak and Irith came to own shares in the company is somewhat convoluted. After an adventure in the Meldoran village of Tora in 2693:5, the Lords were promised a payment each month from the profits of the Toran gold mine. For approximately one year, this money was place into a trust fund maintained in Rotan. Of all of the beneficiaries of the trust, only Flash ever used any of the money – in his case the money was used to buy necessities for his daughter Hawthorn and to pay for a nurse. In 2696, the Toran mine began to lose money and the administrator of the fund (which curiously happens to be Ghazak Nikrig) authorised the Torans to use the funds that had built up in the trust to keep the Toran mine operating. Unfortunately, the mine continued to run at a loss, and it looked as if the Lords had lost out. In 2699 however, the Rotan Gold Mining Company was established, and desperate for additional mining equipment, the company took over all of the remaining assets of the crumbling Toran operational. All of the owners of the Toran operational were given a share of the Rotan Gold Mining Company as payment. Since then, the Rotan Gold Mining Company has become extremely successful, and the shares owned by the Lords are now once again quite valuable. Since the recent cessation of the supply of minerals from Urgari, the value of shares in the Gold Mining Company has risen sharply. The current value of the Lords’ shares in the company are estimated as follows:
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