General Comments & Banter, page-2098

After all the bickering yesterday I emailed Jerko. I am happy with his response and patience is required. You don't just magically produce BG LCE with a click of the fingers!!!

Please see his response below:

Thanks for your email, I hope you are well.

Yes, noticing some patience seems to be wearing thin, though as per your comments, I realise our timelimes that were modified back in January to reflect current status are causing frustration, but I feel our communications are regular and very much reflect  our exact current position.


I think people just want to know all is ok and perhaps are getting a bit ahead of themselves, given the timelines and comments made in our recent announcements that commissioning would occur in April and processing thereafter, which is exactly what is happening now.

I’m sure most people are aware, producing BG LCE is not easy and only 3 or 4 companies can do it successfully (if it was easy, everyone would do it!!), but as per our announcements, each piece of work (processing/refining) needs to be conducted very technically and specifically to ensure the end product is as we require. I wish I could speed up our works to give all SH’s the comfort that I have, but please be assured, Pablo and team are doing a great job, ensuring we are setting up this company to be successful for a very long time (and to borrow another company’s quote) and become the next force in the lithium business.


The tweets showing works progress are not only for LT SH’s, but also for new SH’s who aren’t as familiar as LT’ers to help them better understand the project and their investment. And also to hopefully attract new SH’s.

The Easter message was the announcement that the plant was operational. That (to me) is quite an achievement.

Again, we have built an industrial scale plant to process BG LCE, no one has done that for many years, so we need to ensure all is working perfectly and we ask SH’s to be a bit patient..

We will definitely provide market updates as soon as anything happens, so all SH’s remain fully informed.

Hope that satisfies your queries (noting all is as per public announcements) and I wish you well.


Regards

Jerko