I do not hold PLL, so I am not overly interested in the company,...

I do not hold PLL, so I am not overly interested in the company, other than that Primero had obtained an MOU for PLL, and I hold shares in its owner, NWH.

There is arsenic in the water of Gaston County – see https://www.ncwater.org/Reports_and...roundwater_in_the_North_Carolina_Piedmont.pdf. Whether it was an issue with Albermarle when mined there up until the 1980s, I cannot say.

A global giant in the lithium game, Albemarle, has a now-closed spodumeme mine at Kings Mountain, Gaston County. See https://www.albemarle.com/businesses/lithium/locations/north-america/office-labs. In the 1980s Albermarle shifted sourcing of lithium to South America and Australia in the 1980s. Why Albermarle has not returned to mining in North Carolina is a moot point – maybe it would if the US Government helps in one way or another.