 Today I have the distinct pleasure of speaking with Bernard Touralon from Uragold. How are you today Bernard? Very well. And Bernard let me start by congratulating you. Your most recent news release said that your solar grade silicon metal process has a 75% lower carbon footprint than the conventional Siemens process. Obviously we would like you to tell us a little bit more about this. Well it's it's very it's simple in a certain way. What we're doing is we're taking our quartz directly and we're transforming it to the higher purity material 6n and going up. So we're eliminating a complete step that is a little dirty secret that nobody says in the industry. It's very bad. The transformation of metallurgy grade silicon metal to polysilicon requires lots of energy chemicals and that's really what it is. And nobody really talks too much about it because the carbon effect of the solar panel is such that it offsets it. But I read somewhere that in reality if you're a true greenie and you're buying a solar system it takes up to six years for you to generate the credit offset the production one. So this with the Paris meetings that were there on all the discussion we decided to say you know what let's try to figure out what's going to be our carbon footprint. That's when we came up with the realization that versus this this semen process we're 75% more energy efficient basically because we're removing a complete step in both them. What's not written the press release what's also but is also within the documents that I have is that 75% of our remaining carbon footprints is mostly due to the transport exploration mining and everything else. And there are ways for us to go in additional offsetting regard to the way the process work because we're not looking at building a massive smelter but we're building a reactor. Our goal is to have those installation closer to the deposit so by having them closer to the deposit we can cut also the carbon footprint everywhere else. It's basically those are small step that we can do that can add to the positive visibility of our project in addition to what we're doing in the solar field which is going to be a very competitive project. I think this is another example of how competitive and the advantages of course the PureVap QVR process. Now not everybody in our audience may be familiar with your goal so if I could just give have you give them a bit of an overview of this technology that you currently have. This technology is sort of an improvement on a lot of technologies that already exist. What it basically is is we're using an vacuum furnace we will be putting our quartz and using plasma which is a third state of energy or different state of energy to basically transform the quartz into high purity silicon metal. What we've discovered during all the research for the patent well not we but pyrogenesis discovered was that with all the elements and all the science behind this we should be able to attain our goal of doing ultra-high purity material and one of the factor that we're working on right now all issues is why we issued a news two weeks ago about the ultra-high purity results of one of our quartz is since we're trying to demonstrate the the high value of the high purity material we're trying to use the highest purity material in all area. You might find this very interesting but if this work we might just be one of the biggest user of high purity graphite in the in the world because we need high purity graphite we just discovered that one of the cleanest way for us to reach the material is one of the sources of contamination the material is your carbon sources you're using so if you're using a very pure graphite then you're using a very pure quartz then your chances of success are much greater so sort of funny now that I'm looking at ultra-high purity graphite too but I could be one of the big user out there. Alright Bernard something that I thought was very interesting I was reading a column on investor Intel by Dr. Duchain and he was talking about how expensive solar-grade silicon sells for and how disruptive your QVR technology could actually be for the industry can you explain that could you dumb that down for us just a little bit more. Since we're doing it in one step alright we're eliminating a complete transformation step that's actually where ninety percent of the cost is and we're doing it so fundamentally if we reach our goal we should be able to make the material the ultra-high purity for close to the same cost that they're making the metallurgy grade silicon metal which is another six billion dollar year business well that that opens up for us so many markets it's insane because there's a specialized market for 9985 there's a market for 999 there's multiple markets I'm focused more on the ultra-high market that the startup with because then that allows me to when I do my PEA on my deposit be able to say okay because of my process transfer I will get x amount of profit generated per tons of material that's the goal but there's so many market we're gonna be in where since we're doing in one step we should be doing it for the cost of the raw material that our competitors are buying it that's if it works all my competitors that make polysilicon buy metallurgy grade silicon metal from the big buyers out there alright that's the really that's the key competitive advantage just even before you add on the carbon credit that's just an extra one that's all so what should we expect then as investors and shareholders say in the next couple months because as you were pointing out to me previously the shareholders are really starting to understand what a dynamic story this is and you're really as you said catching the perfect way tell us a little bit more about this and what we should expect well first of all we're gonna be coming out with the first batch of results very recent those result will be an indicator light for us for the pathway to reach our goal then we got to figure out how to scale it up and how to control our cost because we've sort of by doing a lot of the R&D that we've done in discussion with pyrogenesis we have a very good idea how to go to the the target range and so now we're gonna have to implement them one of the big work we're gonna do once you know once spring finally arrives is we got to go back in the field and start drilling the resources we took a deliberate decision last year not to spend our precious capital raised through flow through on doing exploration which I don't think gets the biggest bang for the buck at the beginning stage but next year I mean this year going to do some exploration is gonna give us a big bang on the two properties because we have some good feeling that we'll be able to come up with some decent sized numbers are gonna support our operational goal and then naturally as the success gets proven what we want to do now is go out of our little bubble which is Quebec in Ontario a little bit and just go out to the world and tell them listen we have a process where we can make solar grade silicon metal cheaper better cleaner and everybody else you want to get on board yes that's not just we have to do well speaking of getting on board thank you so much Bernard for updating us today it's always a pleasure you're welcome