 Cryptocurrencies, cannabis stocks, and CEO interviews brought to you by Rich TV Live. Hi, how's everyone doing today? This is Rich from Rich TV Live, and I'm here with a very special guest, the CEO of HPQ Silicon Resources, Inc., Bernard Turion. How you doing today Bernard? Very good, very good. Happy to be here. Happy to have you here. I'm excited to talk about your company and introduce your company to our growing membership of investors all over the world. So why don't we just get started by you telling us a little bit about HPQ Silicon Resources, Inc. Okay, HPQ is a company that's developing a new process to make silicone metal. That sounds boring and everything else, but silicone is a massive market, $24 billion a year, and we're reinventing the way of doing it much more efficiently and changing completely the dynamics of it. We have silicone. It's used in anything that's renewable, green tech, strategic minerals, and everything else. Fantastic. And what markets is HPQ Silicon focused on, and what problem is HPQ helping to solve? Okay, silicone is, as I said, silicone is, as I use, my only technical part here will be this. It's a material that is used in many of the new products coming in from solar energy. It's the key to solar energy. You need it to turn the energy of the sun into electricity. You need it in electronic, in EV, in electrical vehicles. It makes the vehicle lighter. There's new now usage coming into the battery space, which is being used to replace graphite into it because it's much more efficient material. But it's a very big market, and what's been happening is it was originally really an industrial material used to strengthen aluminum and everything else. So there was a market for it, and there was specialty niche market that required higher purity for that material for electronic chips. So this is why I call silicone valleys because they use silicone chips into everything that is in your telephone and everything else. It starts with the silicone that we're going to be producing to either purify it or everything else. But what's been happening in industries, as it moves into the more renewable, the more high efficiency material, there's now a need for a raw material, a silicone raw material that's of a purity of two ends and higher up. Like for solar, you need six ends for electronic, you need nine ends. It's not that important to discuss, but what happens is making trends for the traditional process is very, very difficult because it's a very heavy industrial, carbothermic process. What that means is you need quartz, you need carbon, you need a lot of heat to do it. And the only way they do it is you need very, very pure material to make less pure material. And then you need to take that material and purify it for end usage. What we're doing is we're sort of cutting the middle step into it. We can go with very un-pure material, make very, very pure material compared to our competitors and pretty close to almost solar quality going down the line. Cheaper. It's not very complicated and the market's already there. It's a massive market. We can do it cheaper and that's fundamentally what we're doing. Silicone, it's funny, people don't realize how much they use silicone and everything in their life. You see that ad, silicone base, silicone caulking, silicone comes out of that material. It goes from silicone caulking to chips in your computer, on your cell phone. It's using everything and yet it's unknown why because it was one of those completely un-sexy advanced material. Wow. Well, I mean if it's being used in so many different products, it's sexy to me. Can you tell us a little bit about what was the main factor that helped HPQ reach a high of 30 cents back in 2016? Okay. That's when we started to move with pyrogenesis and developing the technology, which we call the PureVap process. With the PureVap process, what the PureVap process allows us to do is eliminate multiple steps to try to go to solar. When you do any type of things at lab scale, which was the result we were getting up to 30 cents, it's very easy to get very sexy results. Basically, at lab scale, you can almost create anything. The problem goes when you want to go from lab scale to commercial scale. That's been something that my partnership with pyrogenesis, it's always been our focus on understanding. So we went to 30 cents because the lab scale looked very, very promising and when you get the first results, it looks out of the sky. But what happens is when you then go from lab scale to commercial scale, which is an important phase for everything else, as I said, there's a phase of it that looks about as exciting looking as paint dry. That's literally what happened is we got so good results from the get go that we immediately decided to go validate the commercial scalability. So we went from a lab scale machine, which is nothing else than something that fits on top of a desk and demonstrated we could do it, which already was very rare that we could do silicon and build it. So since that initial peak of 30 cents, why has HPQ been so quiet? Twofold, I would say. One of them is sort of a semi-deliberate strategy in the sense there was some events that made it happen. And then once I closed the government financing at a significant premium and I saw that it wasn't getting any traction with investors, that wasn't the key catalyst for investors to come back in the story. But mostly, when's the pilot plan going to be ready? I decided not to waste money doing marketing. I just focused on getting the project advancing, moving forward. I'll have plenty of time to talk about how great it is. And what we did, we issued great update because we have been getting fantastic results, but they're mostly been, I can say, this very engineering thinkling and everything else. So that's not the most sexy thing, but it's the most important. It's like, we're building the foundation to a mention. There's a part of it that doesn't really look sexy and everything else. That's what we've been doing. So that's really fundamentally what happened. At one point, I just didn't want to be like one of those, you know, trying to come up with a press release, just come up with press release to say, you know, I've moved three balls from here to four balls from there, it's not worth it. So we focus much more on market research. Making sure that all our working hypothesis were coming through, seeing how the market was evolving, because when we started in the solar business, just to give you an idea, solar grade silicon metal was selling at $25 a kilogram, $25,000 a ton, now it's selling below eight. Wow. That changes, that changes the dynamics of the market. It doesn't affect us in the sense that we're a business plan, it actually plays into our strength coming in, but those are the reality of it. And there's been things that were not as prominent in the market two years ago, which are now becoming much more prominent now. One of the things that I've basically just discovered or been made more aware is that the market demand for the material, specific purity of the material has gone through the roof. And it's a material that my competitors, the big boys in the industry, have a very, very hard time to do. For us in our all in R&D research, we're not really working very hard at it. That's what made us realize is, wait a minute, we're competitive at every level and we demolish the barriers to entry. That's great, Bernard. I love what I'm hearing. Let me ask you another question. Can you please elaborate on the building of a commercial plant versus a conventional plant producing silicone metal and what that does for the company now as of July 11th? Okay, traditional smelter. It's a real smelter. So think about all the specific levels of it from social acceptability to one usage and everything else. So traditional process, you'll need, if you're a senior producer, you'll need an investment of about $220 million to build a 30,000 ton per year capacity. That's what the industry has sort of figured out. That's the minimum cost to get the best, you know, and capex costs and operating costs. Between $220 million, if you're doing it, $300 million, if you're off sourcing it. That's the barrier to enter the silicone business. Okay. Wow. We can do this at, from about 5,000 ton a year capacity, okay, we match the lowest cost producer in the capex when you use a cost per kilogram of annual capacity, we're at the same price. We have an operating cost that we know is going to be 20 to 30% cheaper than the cheapest one because they need 6.2 tons of raw material to make one ton. We need 4.5. They need ultra pure material, we need cheaper. The difference is ultra pure is expensive, cheaper is basically less pure is cheaper, you know. And a funny thing, we used to be a quartz mining company, a resource company. When we discovered to make silicone metal, although silicone metal is made out of quartz, the key ingredient is the carbon. One of my competitors actually controls one of the two mines in the world that does the carbon that any smelter commercial plant can use, okay. We can use plain jane standard, clean coal that comes out of any plant in Virginia or anywhere else. That gives us an incredible advantage because they used to be able to control the market. So basically your competitor control your costs of raw ingredient. I'm not affected by that. You know, you speak of that, can you actually touch on, a few months ago you announced a deal with Pyro Genesis Canada. The symbol for Pyro Genesis is P-Y-R, okay. Now that was, I think it started on June 4th, the construction required for the HPQ dedicated section of the facility. Yeah, that, yes, but that started in 2015. We've been partnering with Pyro Genesis in 2015. One of the other things I've done, okay. As a company HPQ, one of our philosophy was, I am not going to start from scratch and build my own technical team because then that means my investors are playing for experience. We decided to outsource, but we did better than outsource. We partnered with Pyro Genesis. And Pyro Genesis is one of those technical geniuses, Brainiac corporations that do things that nobody else does. They've done things for the US Navy, they've done things for the Department of Defense. They're doing something that's, they invented plasma atomization for 3D printer before even was even thought it by people. They've re-entered that space. They partnered up with a billion dollar European company in that process. They've developed a technology to recuperate much more efficiently and economically drowsed from aluminum. So that's their expertise. And by outsourcing with them, I have a team of like, I was once in a car, and I think I've already quoted this one, it was one in a car with two PhD, one in an Emmy in engineering, the only dumb, dumb MBA, of course, I was the one driving everybody to the meeting, but that's literally what it is. So it's impossible, it would be impossible for a company like HPQ to build that. So that's the team we have, we are sort of part because Pyro Genesis is not our largest shareholder, so just below the 10% threshold, 9.71% on a fully diluted 12%, 15%. So it's a mutually designed, but as the CEO of Pyro has often stated, one of his biggest assets is his brain, the brain capacity, and he wouldn't be wasting it, didn't see the potential in the project that we see. We both realize we're the only player, like in silicone, okay, we're the only junior in the field. You'll get people saying, I have a quartz deposit there for me in silicone, but sorry to tell you, I get offer quartz deposit like left, right in center every three days. Can you ask, actually, you touched on this a little bit, can you tell us a little bit about your team and how they strengthen HPQ's silicone resources, Inc.? Yeah, my team, it's a very small team, it's a very lean team, okay? It's HPQ really outsourced the R&D with Pyro. I am the point of focus, eventually we will shrink it in our point more and more with salesmen and everything else, we'll have our own technical people. Right now, by outsourcing it, I've been able to have a team that I could never afford, okay? I could never afford the expertise, everything else. You got to remember the pyrogenesis from the get go, they don't look at a project if it can't be commercially scalable, okay? And remember, lab scale, you can do anything, okay? And that's really where it's playing to our advantage. So that's really where it is. We haven't built a big team. We don't spend that much money on doing these type of things. We're more focused on getting, you know, it's like, I'm a big shareholder. Our investors do not like companies that have a high burn rate. We do not like companies that are spending money like a drunken sailor. We're not into that. We're into companies that have a very strong balance sheet, strong team, and companies that are under-appreciated, under-valued, and under-exposed. Now it's about us on that, and this is why we think that you guys have that potential to be one of those companies. And at only nine cents right now, this is, you know, an unbelievable opportunity for investors. So who would you say are some of your main competitors, if there's any? And how do you stand out amongst the pack? How do you say there's two peer competitors? In the sense that there's the big boys, the big players, but they're all billion-dollar companies, okay? Ferro Glo, there's a Brazilian company, there's Elkham, and those are the big boys. So these are the guys that are sort of looking what I'm doing. And again, they're going to wait for me either to succeed, well, I know I'm going to succeed, and then they're going to start shaking their boot. But there's no small player, if my competitors are any company that says it in tech, in graphite, in anything else. But nobody is in my field of silicon, because silicon, the carbon-thermic process that we're developing is very unique, very specialized. We will have, in pyrogenesis facility, a 3,000-square-foot piece of equipment that can produce 50 tons of high-purity silicone metal on a regular basis. They'll be there to send samples to clients, get the process demonstrated, plus get us to get all the financial numbers finalized. We know internally that it looks very promising financially. We know that we can attack niche market that nobody else can. See, the problem with a billion-dollar company is that a high-value niche market doesn't move the needle for a billion-dollar company, it moves the needle for us. I've actually seen a billion-dollar company try to sell to investors that, they're going to attack this 3,500-ton-a-year market, sub-market of the silicone place, because they can get $6,000 to $10,000 a ton of material for that specific branch. That's nice, but it doesn't really change the needle. For us, it changes the needle because we're the lowest-cost producer, we have very low capex, and we can build specific material for them. So we have that flexibility. That's great. Now, we here at Rich TV Live, we are all about finding undervalued, under-appreciated, under-exposed companies. You're at $0.09, seems like you're extremely undervalued, under-appreciated, under-exposed. So if there's one thing you want the investors to know about HPQ, Silicone Resources Inc., what would it be? It's, I have so many things coming through my head, so it's difficult to say one thing. But if you think about it, investors are coming in right now, are getting the benefit of four years of R&D, and we're about to enter the exposing faces. Once we start having the pilot plan, that's when it's going to be exposed. I think the reason why we're in this price range right now is people say, when is that exactly going to happen? I don't know. But I know it's close, I know it's there, it's not years away, it's a few months away and everything else. And that's going to completely gain change. We know that we have a lot of eyes on what we're doing. And we're not that worried about the technology moving forward because the markets sort of fall into a position. So investors are coming in now, get the benefit of the three, four, five years of work, they get into a price above, no, sorry, below where strategic investors come in. Remember, pyrogenesis of Quebec government agreed to finance, do the last phase of financing of the pilot plan at 12 cents when we were trading 8 cents and we went down to 5 cents and a half. That's basically in a 100% premium. Wow. At some point, there's something that can work. It's just, my honest belief is that too many investors think they have time to come back in. That's all what it is. They're no rush, they're no rush. So they're going to find, they're going to put their money somewhere else to make some quick money and they'll come back to this when this starts to make a move. Well, hopefully, you guys start making a move soon and everybody starts flooding back in. I mean, we have seen the stock trade millions of shares. So it'd be nice to see it start trading like that again and turn into a day trader's paradise. I know that's what we love to find here at Rich TV. That might be your part, day trader paradise. I'm in this to build something because I know that we have something unique. The fun part is I'm literally the only player in this space. I'm the only junior one in this space. And if you compare the size of my space, okay, it's a $24 billion addressable market. Well, I think you can put all lithium graphite markets combined. It's bigger than that. That's it. Bernard, with the way things are going, it looks like you guys are on the verge of having a huge 2019. Can you tell us what's coming up for the rest of this year? Well, I think 2019 is going to be the start of a huge 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023. Do you want to know from my perspective? Yes, 2019 is going to be the start of the pilot plan. And we are going to be starting to look at markets that we can immediately engage with our pilot plant equipment. And take a look, get that moving and moving that forward. And that's literally what we're doing, what we're working on. Okay, great. And what is the best way for shareholders to get in contact with the company if they're interested in investing or learning more? Or if there's a company out there that wants to do a joint venture or a letter of intent with you guys, how would they get in contact with you? Well, it's not very difficult. Through our website, they send me an email. On our press release, you've got my phone numbers. Not usually that difficult to reach if you want to reach me. We do have a control discussion forum on the Goracom. If you ask a question there, I will go answer it within the limit of what I'm allowed to say by the regulation. We're pretty open to talking to people. But you won't get any corporate secret from us. Is there a way for them to get in contact with you through your website? If you go on the website and you ask Inquiry, it goes directly into my email. If you could take a look on our press release, there should be the info at HPQ. It reaches either me or Patrick. So, hope. Okay, fantastic. Well, thank you so much for your time today. We wish you all the best of luck on your success. We're going to continue to follow your journey at Rich TV Live. And at this point in time, I want to wish you a great day, Bernard. We'll be watching very, very closely. And thank you guys for watching all over the world. Go and do your research. Do your due diligence. HPQ Silicon Resources Inc. Have a nice day, Bernard. You too.