Ann: New chairman to lead HIO's transition into production, page-45

excellent de-risking in my opinion…

of course preference would be for non-Chinese money and that we raise this capital through a mix of debt, tier one investors (eg superfunds), JV partner or via any contributions/prepayments from our non Chinese interested offtake partners.

But if worse case scenario eventuates, should none of these come to fruition, we know we have a solid link into China.

At the end of the day, our priority is to get this mine into construction in less than 9 months and into production by end of 2024.

personally, I couldn’t care less where the money comes from, I want to see us into production as soon as possible, that is what will create the best return for our investment.

That said, I am very confident we will not require Chinese money. Remember those comments from Brian relating to all the institutions/Banks/super funds interested in funding our project? Remember that line of offtakers interested in our high-quality product, there sure is competition out there for environmentally sustainable carbon neutral projects that isn’t Chinese money imo.