 Today I have the pleasure speaking with Malcolm Mason from Hastings. We're metals. How are you today Malcolm? I'm very good. Thank you Well, let's start off with a question that most people in our audience are going to be interested in which is how the heck Have you doubled your stock this last year? Well, I guess it goes back to we promised certain things and we delivered certain things and we've continued to deliver for what a year and a half now and We now have a band of loyal shareholders who I guess believe in what we're doing and we try and keep them totally informed And of course actually this is consistent I've been reviewing your history and of course Charles Lou came on board December 2013 and a lot of changes have taken place since then with the overall management team and board Can you give us a little bit of an overview on that? Yes, certainly my pleasure to do so because Charles arrived out of the blue. In fact He made a takeover bid and and and that failed but he finished up purchasing the company and it wasn't until February 2014 that we were able to sit around the table and find out what Charles was all about that was a strategy meeting and It was interesting that even at that time he was very very keen on what he called the technology metals and That of course is what we call the rare earths So when we sat around that that table he said we're going to go for rare earths and At the end of the strategy meeting we had a number of other objectives we were certainly going to focus on rare earths but in Australia and He was particularly keen on Western Australia because Western Australia is probably well in my humble opinion It's probably the best mining area in the world and they certainly support mining He also said that he was very keen to have a look at yang jibana and that's where we put our first effort in so those very Direct objectives Were easy to look at and easy to attain so that was very very Clear and he was what shall we say a breath of fresh air? Well speaking of a breath of fresh air what we have here for all of our audience that may not be familiar with Hastings were metals as we have a company that has a lot of the magnetic Materials magnetic metals which are the most high priced rare earth elements Can you give us an overview of what Hastings has and which technology metals you are focused on? Yes, and in fact you've hit the point where if you don't have a significant resource You're not going to go anywhere. So that's obviously the prime Target for us in in the first year We started at yang jibana north and there we found that the neodymium Percentage of our rare earths was around about 18 percent And I might go a little bit further into Our life and that was recently about six months eight months ago We realized that our eastern belt carries around 32 35 percent and one of the prospects in fact is over 40 percent neodymium Now that's a major economic driver for any project Because almost all of your costs are in the hydromet or shall we say the metallurgical area Now you've just put out a major Milestone news release in the last 24 hours What I would really like is if you wouldn't mind telling us a little bit about the timeline of highlights that you've Accomplished here in the last year or so since you joined the team, please mouth them Okay, the first thing we've managed to improve our resources to the stage where we have just over 12 million tons of resource We have been able to obtain control of 650 square kilometers of ground and within that There's over 50 strike kilometers of outcropping resource We find that our or our or our mineralization is quite shallow dipping and That it will be amenable to open pitting We don't have terribly much in the way of native title or native heritage heritage issues And in fact we have at the moment Three granted mining leases which cover over 80 percent of our total resources Okay, so in the last year I've also noticed that you've been able to raise capital successfully for Hastings Which is a real challenge in current market conditions Can you tell us how you've been able to do this or is it just that Hastings? Magnificent is it the resource or the management or both Malcolm. Can you let us know? I? Think it's three things the project in a way does sell itself It is one of those very special almost unique ones. The other one is that Charles has a Lot of very good loyal friends who stay with him But as well as that we have a whole host of high net worth people who have invested on on really the Basic principles that this looks a very good project Well, okay, you heard it here at investor intel. We've been supporting Hastings for many years We do agree that this is a great project and thank you so much for joining us today Malcolm Thank you very much. It's been a pleasure