 Good morning, Don. How are you? Great. Thanks. Good to see you again, Jack. I've been reading about you in the news, and I just had a couple of questions about what your company is up to at this moment. I'm particularly interested in your relationship with the coal industry, because I'm involved as a contractor to the Department of Energy on rare earth projects related to coal. I'm a peer reviewer. I look at, they call me and ask for reviews of projects and situations. So it's a very active area and certainly flying a little below the radar, the public's radar, because there's a great deal of cynicism that, oh, you can't produce rare earths from coal. In my opinion, that is not correct, but I'm wondering what Avalon is going to bring to this very active national project at this stage? Well, I didn't have much awareness of this interest in recovering rare earths from coal until this summer, when I was actually approached by this group, a private company out of the states that inherited this closed coal mine site in southern Illinois. And through basically serendipity, I discovered there was some rare earth enrichment in the waste there. But they didn't know anything about the rare earths business. So they asked around for amongst their network of friends who they could talk to about it and found me. And so I was happy to talk about it. And the more I learned about what they have there, the more intrigued I got with the possibilities there, that this could offer in terms of potentially a very low cost, simple extraction process technology to recover the rare earths, something that would be very innovative and set a new precedent for the whole industry on how rare earths can be recovered, simply in a much lower cost than the traditional solvent extraction methods. I agree with that. And when people question me about this internally in the US government, I always tell them, what's the most expensive part of a mine, of a rare earth mine? It's the mine. Developing a mine is hundreds of millions and even bigger numbers with a B, just to dig holes in the ground and get everything permitted and organized. So the coal people internationally, of course, that's what they already have. And not only that, they have a natural method of concentration that's called burning and they can't throw away the waste. So they collect it all. And of course, since the typical coal deposits, and I'm not familiar with the ones you're working on, but typically they contain 300 to 600 parts per million rare earths in the coal. When you burn the coal, that multiplies quite nicely because, of course, almost all of the carbon is gone when you're done. So it's a natural method of concentrating. And the issue is, of course, you have to process, extract the material and separate it. So I'm not aware of any actual rare earth companies such as yours being involved at this point. There may be, but I'm not aware of them. And so I'm very intrigued and I'm certainly going to follow what you're doing with these people because I think it was very smart of them to contact somebody with as much experience as you have. Now, what's happening also now to change something with that? What's happening in Nechelochko? I know you've also got an Australian partner out there, but I'm not clear as to what's going on there development-wise. So we're basically moving forward with the original plan we developed with them, which was to start with a very small-scale project to develop a resource in a separate deposit that occurs on the property, a small satellite deposit called the T-Zone that had some work done on it historically, where there's a small but very interesting resource, very rich in bassesite, and a pegmatite where the mineralogy is so simple, we can make a concentrate with just using sensor-based or sorting technology, which makes it very low cost to implement and relatively easy to permit because you're not creating any toxic waste or anything like that that creates an environmental concern. So we're moving forward on that quite quickly actually. We'll have an update we'll put out next week on where that is all at, but we think it could be possible to get something started there as little as a year and start to show the world how you can do things a little bit differently to start a new rarer supply chain outside of China. That's very good because what the United States, I think about a century ago some politicians said what the United States needs is a good five cents cigar and I think what we might say right now is what the United States needs is rare earth mines in development and actually in production, that would be real good and notwithstanding what many in the press say there is a very large interest in Washington and getting something like this going and not because you've asked, but because everybody's asking me this as far as they're concerned in Washington, Canada is perfectly okay as a domestic supplier. I get a kick out of this because many years ago when I first started working with the Department of Defense they would look at me and say Canada, where is that? They thought they were being real cute. Now, I was in a meeting in Washington three weeks ago. The question came up to somebody very important. He said most of the projects in development are in Canada and so he said well that's perfectly okay and I said it's perfectly okay. It used to be it wasn't. Well now it is. He says as far as we're concerned anything done in Canada is considered domestic from our point of view. So there's certainly going to be a lot of interest in what you're doing and your timetable if that's correct of a year puts you very far ahead of the pack. So that's good. And what I can tell you is that there's a lot of interest in Canada now in government circles on seeing how they can help in establishing these new critical minerals supply chains following up on the meeting that our Prime Minister had with the president earlier this year and they are working hard on trying to come up with a strategy on this and to their credit they're reaching out to people like me asking for ideas and suggestions on what they can do to help facilitate creation of these supply chains and the main message I'm giving back to them is is that where every new aspiring producer needs help is on defining the appropriate extraction the processing technology and getting access to demonstration scale plans to prove that process and that's starting to resonate actually I'm optimistic that we may see some action in government circles to perhaps create such a facility to serve our interests here in Canada maybe elsewhere. I know you're correct and in fact in both governments there's very much interest in this demonstration plan as you were saying I happen to know that one or two are underway so this is really happening and just as a final statement let me say I'm trying to think of how to say this without being taken to the stockade at Fort Leavenworth. Let's say that the President of the United States will directly address this issue shortly. I'm not saying he's going to make a public statement but he will be actually discussing the rare earth issues very shortly now. So this is really happening and don't let anybody kid you this is not political five minutes or anything like that there's enormous pressure in Washington to get this done and there's pressure out of where to get it done and as you know Don there's plenty of demonstration processing projects that could be done in Canada if it were just a little bit of financing and I honestly believe that the Canadian government and the American government are going to get behind this. We're well aware of that and the interest in the U.S. government circles and that's one of the reasons I was very interested in an opportunity to participate in something like this coal mine waste project in U.S. and I'm fascinated with it actually and adding to what we were talking about earlier on that the thing that intrigued me about this project that's a little different than the scenario you were describing as I know there's been a lot of research on recovering the rare earth from the fly ash waste but in some cases and this is an example there is rare earths in solution in the acid mine drainage and this company discovered this by treating the acid mine drainage with lime to precipitate the out sediment and neutralize the acidity and so sampling those precipitates discovered very high levels of rare earth enrichment so that's what's kind of created the opportunity and alluding back to the cost that you mentioned earlier on a new rare earth mine, a case like this basically Mother Nature has done most of the work for you already and getting them into solution. Can you tell me, are the rare earths presenting in the remaining liquid or are they going into the sediment in the case of where these fellows are treating the acid mine drainage? We're just starting to do some work. It's so new and we're doing some sampling now and I want to kind of better understand how this whole system is working and where the rare earths are coming from but just the same thing is it can probably be brought along very quickly similar to what we're trying to do on our project in Northwest Territory. Well, all I can say is you're definitely on the cusp of the way you've done this is really happening and I don't know anyone else as far along with it in Canada as you were. We've spent a lot of time thinking about innovative processing technologies in this space and I'm excited to see that we have an opportunity to try and implement this now. Good. Well, thank you very much for the update Don and we'll let's keep in touch. Absolutely.