Prob what folks similar to yourself were thinking about...

Prob what folks similar to yourself were thinking about Escondida and Olympic Dam only you see Chinese want to control the new energy market and lithium cobalt prob for political reasons. So if they can purchase very large hard rock deposit and undercut all others by econs of scale then I'm sure they'll go ahead and do it.

however ... Your not addressing the key premise of you initial post in that ... your KDR numbers were well out of wack with what was reality at the time (lets call it an accident) and hence conclusions draw from them are similarly erroneous and misleading.