Ann: Corporate Presentation, page-21

I haven't read the AFR article yet ....but if the CR is intended to secure the supply of raw materials for the KMP , is the 14th Dec 2021 "statement of cooperation"another arrangement put together by the former MD , that was more form than substance ....or is it more a case of the raw materials have become so much more expensive and harder to source , that you just have to "pay up "!

Release Date: 14 December 2021
Joint Statement of Cooperation on Critical Metals signed between ASM
and KOMIR (KORES)
Australian Strategic Materials Limited (ASX: ASM) is pleased to announce that it has signed a Joint Statement
of Cooperation with the Korean Mine Rehabilitation and Resource Corporation (KOMIR), the renamed
Korean Resources Corporation (KORES), to enable the supply of critical minerals and metals into Korea.
Under the Joint Statement of Cooperation, ASM and KOMIR have agreed to work together to expand the use
of rare earths and critical metals in Korea and develop import opportunities that will secure the supply of
these metals for Korean industry