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Let’s face it, for years to come, our customers will all be overseas.

Untill our Carbonate plant is up and running thats the case and is very profitable as is, but designing, permitting and then building some imtermediate product plant such as PLS (and its a demo plant) when we can go straight to the refinery stage in probably much the same time and without incuring that extra expense ,simply doesnt make economic sense or any other sense for that matter IMO.

With NAL we are dealing with a temporary issue not a permanent one and building on to an existing refinery is manageable financially. The holy grail is to Mine, concentrate and refine on the same piece of ground, we have two parts of that trifecta in hand already and the third part partially built and being planned for , just let it happen without complicating it...

With Moblan one could easily make a case for SYA using its mining expertise to supply spod to a refinery built by somenone else with experience and deep pockets, at Amos or somewhere in Quebec but that's for another day.

PLS are shipping vast amounts of Spod from the heart of Australia to Asia on a longterm basis which of course is very inefficient ( but extremely profitable) and is the reason they're trialing a more effective methods to reduce shipping costs and send a more refined product without the costs of building a refinery but we aren't PLS our situation is different..

Cheers Whisky