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It was more a ' Goodwill ' Contract at the time which basically was set up to ' underpin ' a much longer term agreement and marriage between the 2 companies and which will never see the light of day beyond probably year 4 which will only include approximately 2 years of spodumen production at what might not even be nameplate capacity.

And don't you think BOTH these men Keith and Brett knew this all alone from the outset of this deal.

It was probably only done to in part secure the BIGGER name at the time and the connections to the U.S as part of securing the NAL acquisition in so far as Quebec and I.Q were concerned. They needed to limit and mitigate the longer term risks much in the same way as they had done with Nemaska with its TWO other BIG name parties from Europe and the US.