Nice to hear an optimistic take and hopefully this is the one...

Nice to hear an optimistic take and hopefully this is the one that comes to life. However, on this bit: "every OT partner to date for Galan has been met with undue criticism" I think these critiques were fair, not 'undue'. I have never seen a junior enter a deal with Glencore and come out the winner. They are the savviest of sharks as anyone who has read about them will know (JP signed a binding offtake in return for nothing more than an 'offer' to finance the project). Chemphys are/were relatively unknown, posters could only find one other lithium deal they'd been involved in which is unusual for a company that were going to stump up US$40M in funding. As for Authium and this deviation from 3+ years of formal studies (July 2020 to October 2023), I think this part of the presentation outlines the issue quite cleanly:



Galan has gone from a robustly-studied approach using conventional pond/liming/evap approach to a novel DLE technology based on some samples being tested at a Sydney laboratory in March. Anyone who has listened to JP's numerous conferences over the years knows he was a fierce proponent of conventional ponds over DLE, so this is a big U-turn. Given it's now their third offtake/funding partner it's not hard to come to the conclusion that they were desperate to get a deal over the line.