 How is everybody doing today? This is Rich here on behalf of Rich to be live and I'm here with a very special guest It is Craig Taylor the CEO and president of Defense Metals Corp. How are you doing today Craig? Very well. How are you? I'm doing very well. Thank you for joining us today. Now, I was wondering about is you guys are in the Defense Metals business, so why don't you tell us a little bit about Defense Metals Corp? Defense Metals Corp is a rare earth deposit that's located about 70 kilometers from Prince George, BC It consists of 1700 acres and primarily we're hosting neodymium and preciodymium and those are two of the elements that are used in the permanent magnets and the lightweight magnets You're seeing these in the EB market Primarily these days you see it in all sorts of wind turbines There's 900 pounds of neodymium in the wind turbines. So with the green cards of the turbines and the maglev Trains, it's a very green element now It's also used in military applications. So you see it in guidance systems You see it in radar you see it in In all sorts of the US and worldwide military systems as well. And so that's why we have the defense sort of precursor there into that Okay, very good. And What are rare earth metals and what are their current applications? Rare earth metals there's 17 elements in the periodic table As I said, we are strictly well not strictly but we have mainly four of them the neodymium preciodymium Lanthium and cerium and they can be found in your cell phones in your TV screens in your refrigerators in your electric vehicles in your wind turbines in Space technology and guidance systems at really every aspect of your life has some sort of rare earth component to it And that's why we're seeing such a resurgence or or actually just a growth In the rare earths just with all the technology that's around us every day Great, and we are currently seeing increase in the demand of rare earth metals. Can you explain why that would be? I would say the primary driver for that is the electric vehicle market I mean Tesla recently they've opened up this plant in China. They're gonna do 365,000 cars this year and that's their first year and then you've got Toyota doing the same We've got Prieth's Volkswagen that's ramping up So so this is gonna be an ongoing growth story and there's gonna be on ongoing demand Very good now defense metals Corp is currently mining at the 1708 Hector with cheetah property. What exactly makes this site so special? I think part of Why we are looking better than everyone else at this point is because the ease of access we have road access We have electrical access We're close to water and we've been able to extract our Rare earth elements at a very very high rate and extraction is extremely important in rare earths If you can't extract the elements it's of no use. So we've we've spent time doing bench test Extraction flotation extraction at SGS labs, and they've been so successful that SGS who's a world-renowned Extraction specialist to keep it simple is now featuring us in all the symposiums that they are Attending worldwide Wow now who would you say are some of the fence metals Corp's main competitors? Well housing Mount Mountain Pass would be the main one They're the only producer in North America and we we've got grade that's similar to theirs And we're not producing so that gives them a bit of a leg up But our ease of production or ease of mining is gonna get us there fairly quickly. We're able to Strip them on the minerals off the mountain in a fairly easy fashion as I said the infrastructures can help as well Very good. Now. It's very important to set yourself apart from the competition. What sets you guys apart from your competitors? It's really just the grade that we have we you know, we are able to extract 90% product out of our rock and and that's much better than most can do now If there was one thing that you would want shareholders to know about the fence metals Corp, what would it be? I would just say that we have really fast-tracked this we've got The US military given them our applications to to be a preferred vendor So they're looking at it quite closely. We've been speaking to members from the Department of Defense They're actually gonna come up and see us in March. So that's fairly exciting for us And then SGS that is featuring us That's that's a real feather in our cat because they're you know, the experts at this in the world What is the best way for shareholders to get in touch with the company? Usually through our website www.defensemetals.com And that will give you access to all the contact information. Well, that's pretty much all the questions I had for you today Thank you so much for your time today Craig Taylor CEO and president of Defense Metals Corp I wish you all the best of luck in your future endeavors and For all of you guys that are watching all over the world take a look at Defense Metals Corp And if you'd like to learn more get in contact directly with Craig Taylor. Thank you for your time today. Thank you. Have a great day