General Discussion Topics, page-26502

If we were simply going to be a spod producer I think the results would already been back. Sayona will need more information about their ore than a typical spodumene producer. They will want to understand both NAL and Auther (originally just Auther). They will want to understand impurity levels that will help them put the correct upgrades into the Carbonate plant, and provide needed info on what type hydroxide plant to pursue. They will also likely be analyzing other aspects like potential bi-products or co-products that can be produced. This will take lots of samples and lots of tests, so I never expected this to be lightning quick and as we add more variables and our operations expand we have likely also changed our project scope. All of this info will be needed to put together a proper scoping study which has been promised before the end of 2021, we are about 13 weeks out from the end of 2021.