 Hi, I'm Andy Godrieu of Investor Intel. We're here at PDAC 2018. I'm with Don Bubar of Avalon Advanced Materials. Welcome. Thanks. Pleasure to be here. How's your PDAC going so far? Oh, it's a busy time. I'm trying to keep up with my schedule, but it's a real good buzz here this year and always a lot of fun. That's wonderful. Can you give us an update about your separation rapids project? Sure. So we've been making steady progress towards our goal of getting an initial phase one production facility up and running within the next year so we can introduce our lithium products to the market. The approach we've taken to our lithium project is a little different from some of the other players in the industry in that our resource offers us multiple different possibilities on lithium products offer the market mineral concentrates or derivative products for the battery industry. And so we are looking at introducing a number of different possible products to the market and find the right mix for us to create a solid business case on which to build our business going forward. So we're taking a stage development approach to lithium and we think that's the the ideal way to do it knowing that these are not really commodities in the traditional sense of the term these are especially chemical or mineral products that you really have to think of more as like a manufactured good where you need to define your market and then how you're going to make that efficiently to meet the requirements of the market the product specifications and deliver that at the best possible price and so by starting with a relatively modest scale initial facility you give yourself the opportunity to define those products to get them exactly right then you scale up after that and we want to build it at a scale that will allow us to create a small profitable business and then build on that profitable business to expand our product range and and the size of the operation. What's the chitchat like a PDAC this year about the lithium market? It's pretty good buzz I participated in a investors exchange forum session this morning that was all on lithium it was much better attended than similar sessions I participated in in the past so pretty good sign that investors are really interested in lithium and looking for new opportunities. And for your shareholders what can they expect in the next quarter or two from Avalon? Well we committed to that development model I explained so the key for us is to get the commitments from potential customers for these products that will justify raising the capital to put this plant into production so we're in ongoing discussions with a number of players out there that have expressed interest in working with us on it so we're now kind of hopefully getting close to closing something that will allow us to then proceed with the next stages of development on the project. So I understand that you're still working on the East Campville TIN project and Halifax can you touch on that a little bit more for us please? Yeah the East Campville TIN project is kind of a hidden asset in our portfolio it's one we've been working on for many years it's a brownfield site past producing TIN mine actually in southwestern Nova Scotia near Yarmouth that was a producer in the 80s when it's initiated when TIN prices were high but closed prematurely when the price of TIN fell quite dramatically in the late 1980s and it's been a closed mine site ever since. And we acquired mineral tender to it over 10 years ago actually with a vision for potentially restarting operations there and we've got to the point now we're actually have an opportunity to do that by applying a creative model that is essentially designed to rehabilitate the site but do that in a way that actually makes a profit by processing the materials that were left on site to recover TIN because TIN prices are actually pretty strong right now and during the life of the operation with the TIN price declining the stock piled on the ore all the ore that did not meet the cutoff grade with the lower prices the 6 million tons of ore there that we can just start to treat recover a TIN concentrate from and do that profitably and we've so we've got a small-scale development plan there with a potential capital investment of about 30 million dollars we can get into production with a vision of actually making it a walk away site fully remediating the existing environmental liability which is acid mine drainage related to all these waste materials and the stockpile that are on surface there with sulfides oxidizer so it's we think we're pretty close now to actually being able to justify the investment with the number of partners to move forward with that and that could be a surprise for our shareholders in the next year or so that we've actually got another development project on the go so Avalon's goal is to get into production at a small scale whichever project offers us that opportunity soonest and build a platform for future growth based on small-scale production it's wonderful so the shareholders have a lot to look forward to in 2018 yes they sure do i think this is our year okay wonderful thank you so much for stopping by don my pleasure