 Today I have the pleasure of doing an interview with both Marty Weems and Chris Gibbs. Chris, how are you today? Doing very well. Thanks, Trace. And how things would be? I'm gonna direct this first question to you, question to you because we've had a lot of news in the market this week in the rarest sector and this announcement from my read of it looks substantial. Headline massive US rare earth project is larger than previously expected, and I have to say that's an understated headline. Can you tell us what this means? Trace, we're extremely excited about the Hallock Creek project. As you know, we've just completed our maiden drill campaign and we started out with this project with only a few hundred acres and we've significantly increased the footprint. It's now over 6,000 acres and in completing the maiden drill campaign, we came out with a significant upgrade to the exploration target. So it's 328% more than the previous exploration target and it's a whopping around 1.1 billion, a ton of mineralised rock at this actual deposit. So we're extremely excited to announce this, but what's what's really going to be the truth here is when we get the drills on the ground and do the resource drill campaign and come out with a significant Jork resource and that's that's our primary focus and we're excited to get that happening in the imminent future. All right, so the number I heard you say was 1.1 billion. I've got here the updated exploration targets outlined between 1.01 and 1.27 billion tons of rare earth mineralised rocks. That's correct. Okay, so I think everybody out there may be going American rare who? A billion what? Okay, Chris, I think there's been some confusion because there were two company names associated with American rare earth but you do have this resource is in the United States. Is that correct? That is correct and sitting alongside me is Marty Weems and Marty is the head and the president of our North American business and that business, the subsidiary of it, is Western rare earths and your Western rare earths is part of American rare earths. We're the one company and it's, as I said, it's a subsidiary that we set up here. Marty's the head of this business and the president of the North American region. And now look, again, it's a great business we've got here. We've got this team on the ground with Marty and our exploration team here. Our properties are all US based and we've been transitioning to being a fully fledged American company. Earlier, since I've come on board, we've bought on three US based directors as part of American rare earths and one of those directors has been on your program a few times and Mel Sanderson. And we've also listed on the US OTC QB and our long-term projection here is to be fully listed continue to upgrade our listings here in the US. And so we're in transition as a company and really the Hellick Creek project for me is a company maker. It's a significant project, has huge potential to be a world-class asset. And those numbers, Tracy, in terms of the exploration target, as you said, that's massive. There's not very many rare earth deposits in the world that have this amount of potential resources. And so we're very excited to move this project forward under the leadership of Marty here who heads up our business here in the US. Okay, so let me just back you up. Let me confirm Marty, of course, the Hallick Creek is in Wyoming, correct? The United States? Yeah, that's correct. So our two flagship projects are Hallick Creek in Wyoming and then also the La Paz project in Arizona. And before I get to your exciting relationship with the DOE, I would like to just back you up, Chris, and say, aren't you Australian or our investor Intel investors are interested? Okay, well, Tracy, I'm actually, I am Australian, was born in Australia, but I'm also a Canadian citizen. I've spent a number of years over here in North America, living both in in Canada, but I've also spent significant time running a titanium dioxide facility in Baltimore, Maryland, also a molybdenum refinery at Pittsburgh, and also part of a corporate leadership team for a metals company based out of Denver. So I've got significant experience here in North America, and I've also been part of building mines in Canada. So sometimes I'm not sure where home is. Okay, and today you're talking to me here alongside Marty in the in the US, and yeah, I spend significant time coming over here. But again, your Marty's the head of our business here, and again, we're just super excited with what Hallick Creek has, or what will potentially deliver for us. Of course, I purposely brought that up because you wouldn't believe the chat boards, you know, the Australians are taking over. And of course, now they're going to be doubly confused. We've got an American here in management, and we have a Canadian Australian, this should definitely give our audience something to consider when they like to file people under a certain geographical territory. Okay, so just backing up here, who would like to give all of those out there going, okay, obviously this management team knows what they're doing, they're American, thus they achieve a lot of the sustainability criteria that we're looking for. But you also have gone places other companies in the sector have not gone. And let's talk about your relationship with the DOE. Yeah, and look, that's probably best handled by Marty, who is taking the lead on that Marty. So I'll let you handle that one. Yeah, thank you, Chris. And Tracy, good to see you again. Yeah, we're very excited by, you know, the kind of what we consider the three pillars of our company, which are these great mineral assets, the team we're building, and then these partnerships, like DOE, as you mentioned. So, you know, DOE, through a couple of departments, be it their critical materials Institute, which is a DOE innovation hub, as well as through EERE, and its Advanced Manufacturing Office, there's so there's been funding mechanisms that have, you know, activated a couple of our R&D partnerships for them to do very specific cutting edge, we think disruptive potential new processing technology, and be and that being focused on our feedstock. You know, they, the research community has a real keen interest in our feedstock because of the low thorium content, and the possibility that we can create a flow sheet and a process that ultimately potentially does not pierce the veil of needing an NRC permit. You know, so if we can keep that thorium content, uranium content combined under 500 parts per million, then handling requirements become much easier. And when you're dealing with, especially now, these bio based approaches, such as a bio leaching type approach, you know, the bugs and such prefer an environment that's not extraordinarily irradiated. So that works out a little better. So we like where these are going, we've got a number of these relationships and are cultivating more, because there's just there's hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars being poured into changing the technology of this supply chain, and making it greener, cleaner, more sustainable. That funding is coming from DOE, as well as the Department of Defense programs like the DARPA, EMBER program, which were also part of there. And, you know, so for us to take greatest advantage of as many funding opportunities as possible, these partnerships are critical, and it's primarily going to be through DOE and DOD funded mechanisms. Of course, I'd like to encourage all of you out there who may be new to American Rareers to start by reading this news release. It's actually a very good gentleman. I would like to congratulate you. Identify clearly the target, the industry sector. You mentioned things like you've increased your land holding to over 6000 acres plus in this Howlick Creek project area. Is that correct? Yeah, that is correct, Tracy. And we are continuing to look at expanding that. And so, again, we're super excited with this project. And look, we can't wait to get drills on the ground and really establish a significant dual resource at this deposit and continue to move it forward. And again, what makes this project unique is that it is low in thorium and those uranium, those penalty elements, and it is still open at depth. It's open laterally. And so, we're very excited, get these drills on the ground first-fold and to establish a significant resource in the early part of next year and then continue to move this project forward. And so, and in conjunction whilst doing that, this great work that Marty's doing on that technology front. And again, our strategy here is to be moving forward these respective two projects that we've got. And while at the same time getting involved in this technology and being at the leading edge and then essentially close that gap so that we can then really go from your mind to market. And the intent is to be in the driver's seat for any of this transformational technology that could well come through. But I do wish to point out that we're also conducting metallurgical test work where the conventional technologies is also working. We're not dependent on this new technology. The conventional technologies processing rare earths is still very relevant to this deposit. But we are wanting to be part of the new, what are called green revolution to actually be at that leading edge to process, refine and purify rare earths in a green and sustainable manner. And that's why we're really focused on these major rare earth deposits that are first off low in those penalty elements. Well, you must be doing something correct. And I'll avoid asking the obvious question, which is why have you flown all the way from Australia to Phoenix to have meetings in Phoenix? Chris, but I hope you too will join us more often and more frequently because you are moving incredibly fast. I'd like to thank you both for joining us. That is Chris Gibbs from the Weaves from the American Rare. Thank you. Thank you, Tracy. Thank you, Tracy.