 Hi, I'm Peter Clausi with Investor Intel here at day one of the world-famous mining show PDAC 2019. We're halfway through the day, the crowds are building and so is the excitement. And I'm happy to see my old friend Dom Buber. Let's talk about the advanced materials part. You mentioned before we got started that you have a novel approach or novel use for your lithium. Tell me about that. Well, advanced materials is a broad growing sector, that's what created Investor Intel actually is trying to create more investor awareness around these new materials that are still emerging in terms of supply chains and opportunities. And so we've been an early mover in that space and actually our lithium project was our first real asset. And that's in Northwestern, Ontario near Canora. In Northwestern, Ontario near Canora. We've been working on it for over 20 years actually. I was a very early mover. Nobody was in lithium then. That preceded lithium 1.0? Yes. Yeah. And at the time we had made a new discovery of a lithium-pegmatite resource enriched in a very unusual lithium mineral called petalite. And petalite is a very rare lithium mineral. It only occurs in very highly evolved pegmatites. There must be then a unique use for it if it's that rare. Exactly. It has traditionally been a preferred industrial mineral source of lithium to use in specialty glass and ceramics. Like transparent glass like windows or more industrial glass? Industrial glass but also consumer products. The property that lithium imparts to glass is it makes it stronger and thermal shock resistant. So it's actually a lithium mineral petalite that corning used to invent corning wear cook wear. Exactly. And that's a critical ingredient that makes it so sturdy. And that's where you can put it in the oven? Is the lithium... Take it out, put it in a pail of water and it won't break. It's because of the lithium in that formulation. Just when I thought I knew everything. That's interesting. And so what's happened now in that space is there's a lot of innovation in the glass and ceramics industry too. And they're starting to create new materials using these other skewer elements like lithium and all the high strength glass products that you're hearing about now, the critical ingredient it's always lithium. I recently saw an ad for rollable glass, like a tablet that you could roll up and the glass moves. That's an example of the types of innovation that's happening in the space. I'm not sure if lithium is particularly used in that one. But anything that they're making that's really strong now, like the glass for display panels that you want to have really, really sturdy, lithium is a critical ingredient. So there's demand is increasing as these new products are innovated and growing in... How rare is this form of lithium? Very rare actually. There's only been one real significant producer of it in the world historically, an operation in Zimbabwe called Bikita. And that's been it. The others have all been kind of very small, artisanal size resources. Avalon also has a rare roots property up in the Northwest Territories in Canada. And you're chasing numbers 59 and 60 on the periodic table. And by the way, I love your tie. If the camera can get a good shot of that, it is the periodic table. And for the mining show that is absolutely perfect. Especially if you're in technology metals. I see copper, I see chromium, I see cobalt, it's a great tie. But you're chasing numbers 59 and 60 on the periodic table at your Northwest Territory project. And you recently brought in a new partner, I understand. That's right. Yeah. So we looked at one model on that project historically on a resource called the Basel Zone that had mineralogy that made it highly enriched in the heavy rares. And that looked like a good opportunity 10 years ago. So what we're seeing now is more specific demand for neodymium-praziodymium because of the magnet aperture. You can say those words. I always get hung up on them. I got a little bit of practice. And so we were able to sort of revisit the opportunity there because there are other separate zones on the property that have different mineralogy. And one in particular that is very highly enriched in rare earth or mineral basacite. And that basacite has unusual enrichment in those two particular elements, neodymium-praziodymium. Is that the T-zone? Yes. And so that would be the target of your next stage of exploration? So we looked at the opportunity there to develop it at a very modest scale. It's right at the surface. It had some work done on it historically, it's got it added in it. So it can be developed pretty quickly. And using new or sorting technology, we think we can make a concentrate of the basacite very easily at a low cost, not using any water and be able to then send that somewhere else for leaching to recover the rare earth. Will that be worked on this summer? Yes, that's the plan. Okay, so there's a lot of news we should be looking for out of Avalon. On all three projects, including our Tin Indian project in Nova Scotia. We didn't get around to talking about what we can do next time. I thank you so much for your time. It's always good to see you. I learn something every time. Thanks for coming in. Good to see you, Peter.