 Hello, everyone. This is Byron King with Investor Intel. And boy, do I have a treat for you right now. We have Pierre Gaultier of OXICO Resources, a rare earth development play that is working with the mineral sand products in South America and in Africa, Colombia, Brazil, Congo, other places, got a bunch of relationships. You know, you hear a lot about, oh, a rare earth company, this rare earth company that these guys have just broken some incredible news that I was stunned when I heard it. And Pierre, would you tell us please about your ultrasound patent that you just received from the United States Patent and Trademark Office on reducing mineral sands into something very, very important. Tell us about it. Yeah, my pleasure because that's really a pet project of mine over the last five years. But, you know, it's no different than when you go to the hospital for a kidney stone and they use ultrasound to break down that stone so it can exit your body. You know, so if you think of that process and you apply it to mining, what do we do in mining? We take the rock, we crush it, we put it into solution into tanks, we put some acid in there. The acid is meant to collect what you're seeking in terms of mineral and detachment from the host rock and that can take 24 hours in terms of cyanide, it can take 10 hours for nickel, rare earth, etc. It's a very time-consuming thing for the acid to do its work. When you put an ultrasound in there, it creates these cavitation bubbles that collide together and they destroy the particles into nanoparticles. So the result of that process is that your acid has a much more surface contact area to collect what mineral you're seeking to collect. So, you know, in nickel, we've done it in 15 minutes, 97% recovery compared to H-PAL, which could be eight hours, and so on. So I think it's a great contribution to the mining industry and we started early in this about five years ago and now we work with the University of Montreal that has the Sonification Department, very rare in North America, but there's 30 PhDs in Sonal Chemistry working there. We work with McGill University. So we have a scientific group that's on this all the time and we got our first patent from the US government last week, so it's good stuff. Well, that's totally exciting. I think the last time we spoke, I actually showed you this crystal of monazite here. This is a beautiful crystal. It's about the size of my thumb a little bit bigger. Actually, this is not what you find in nature usually. You'd pay 300 bucks for this at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, so we're not going to toss this into the crusher. But the idea is that you take monazite and you break it down, but now with your ultrasound, you're literally turning it to a powder and increasing the surface area, which increases the efficiency of processing. And so you save chemicals, you save energy as in heat, speed it all up, the kinetics of the reaction, and this is just a remarkable development. And I really congratulate you on that. That was sort of my personal, like, wow moment here for viewers and listeners out there who are watching this. Tell us what's going on, what else is going on with OXICO. You're actually selling something, aren't you? You have a cash register. Tell us about your cash register. Well, you know, monazite or typically have radioactivity in there, a lot of thorium and so on, and that's, you know, but it's a big source of errors on the planet. And oddly enough, there's a lot of tin historical operations that have monazite stands that are sitting there and tailings and so on. But the radioactivity has stopped that development pretty significantly because you can't move that those concentrates outside of a border. They can't travel with international radioactivity. So one of the things we've just done is done an ultrasound treatment, put everything in solution and precipitated out the thorium and created a concentrated of errors with no radioactivity. So that liberates some of these big deposits in Brazil or Colombia that do have radioactivity that can now be sold under long-term contracts because that was the impediment to that kind of development. In the Congo, we're really fortunate as that we have a monazite sand deposit there with no radioactivity. Which is contrary to everything you read is usually all of them are radioactive. So we've been able to start exporting 50% plus of errors from the Congo. And we had our first shipment about a month ago, 100 tons, and that'll be 150 tons this month. And we're going to build that to about 1000 tons a month. So that puts us in a different conversation with potential buyers, governments, car manufacturers and so on. The fact that, yeah, would you like 1000 tons, we'll deliver it in 60 days, you know? So we're looking to enter into long-term contracts with either governments or automakers for that matter. Absolutely. So that's just two home runs in one discussion here. You've managed to break the code on just the reaction kinetics of turning, you know, turning your mineral into a concentrate. And now you're able to remove the thorium. I hold in my hand a vial of thorium oxide, very, very low-level radioactivity. You know, I can hold it as a civilian, but if I had too much of this stuff, I'd be in trouble. So that's just an astonishing leap. Tell us, where all do you work? Who mentioned Columbia, Brazil, Congo, what else? Yeah. So the main projects are actually Bolivia as well. Bolivia has a big history of tin mining there with huge amounts of tailings and so on. And we're looking at sources of rarest there as well. And when you hit these monazite sands, you know, there's a lot of them. Our Brazilian project, there's 30 million tons of tailings in the deal we're working on now. And it was all studied by the German government and the Brazilian government that did a massive study on this, took several years on, you know, on the economics of these tailings deposits. And there's tin in there, there's tinthalium, niobium, and zirconium. So there's a way of concentrating all these things out individually to create a revenue stream. And when they did this in 2018, they just stopped at the rarest they took. The rarest were like 3% approximately of the tailings volume. So on 30 million tons, that's still 900,000 tons. Those are their numbers, not mine. And then they converted that into a rarest concentrate of about 38% total rarest with radioactivity. So they just stopped there and didn't go any further. So in our case, we did ultrasound on that one hour and got the thorium out, precipitated everything out. So now we have this non-radioactive concentrate and there's a million tons of it. So I would think that some government or some car manufacturer might be interested in that. So is it fair to say that you're not really a mining company in the sense that you're buying sand, you know, tailings and sand that are already there? You're not digging a hole in the ground, are you? No, we do own the middle rights to this because, you know, in many cases, right, we want to own the middle rights because of the in-situ value of the asset for sure. So yeah, so in Colombia, we have the middle rights to 1,500 hectares of alluvial plains in there that are very interesting. And in the Congo, our joint venture partner company, Central America Nickel, which I also found that owns a mining concession, a joint venture with the government there for 25 years. So we want to own the asset and have a majority interest in owning that asset, just to be able to develop on our own terms. Oh, okay. Yeah, all right. I want to just try to clarify that. In a previous discussion, we had talked about Bolivia and we talked about the tin mining. And apparently in the olden days, you know, they processed the sands for the tin, but they left everything else there. And there you are. You know what? Think of it. They're helping us by eliminating the tin and increasing the value of the rares. And that has happened not only in Bolivia, but in the Congo, the property we have was an old tin mine. So again, the tailings from the tin operation have been enhanced in value by the removal of the tin. In Colombia, we have a lot of tin there on the ground as well. So there is an association with tin and monosite sands and rares and what we see there. So these are important new and very, very large sources of rares to be exploited. Yeah. Well, if people hear these stories and get excited and want to go out and, you know, buy into Oxyco, how would they do that? What's your share structure and what exchanges should they do? Well, we're on the Canadian stock exchange right now. There's about 66 million shares out the market caps to about 50 million bucks. And that pales by comparison to most of their companies in the rares field. So we're sort of a new entrant in rares, not that known yet. Although there's a press release that came out this morning that I just like to point everybody's attention to. In Colombia, we've been working for rares that are about three to five meters in these sands down on the ground and concentrating them. And then we have this iron cap formation, the first meter. And we just found in the iron cap that there's about nine grams of gold there and about 12, 13 grams of platinum right there in the first meter from surface. And we can project out this iron cap within our 1,500 hectares and there'd be about 150 hectares of that material right on surface. So this ends up, this has the potential to be a major gold producer along with platinum when you have open pit at that kind of level. So if you put it in that context, we would be mining rares under there for free and the gold and the platinum would cover the extraction costs of everything else. Well, all good things come to an end, including this interview. And this has been a fabulous interview, Pierre. Thank you so much. I personally thank you. I hope that the viewers and the listeners out there, I hope they thank you. And months from now, after they bought some shares and things are really developing, I think the market's going to be thanking us in other ways. But thank you so much for your time and for your courtesy and we wish you well and your company and everyone with whom you interact in these exciting mining areas. So best wishes to you and everyone. Yeah, thank you, Brian. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it.