Agreed- direct supply means come on down VW or any other future...

Agreed- direct supply means come on down VW or any other future cobalt gluttons- you need nickel, you need cobalt.
Just as your battery operations start to go ballistic, you could have nickel, you could have cobalt.
If you’re willing to pay a decent price as an early bird now or an even higher price, which will again be decent compared to the market, in the future.
Wouldn’t it be a shame if a battery or car producer had to delay their plans to match/beat their competitors just because some knuckleheads in procurement were slow off the mark?

To your question yes, we may keep what we find laying on the ground.
We can also pan rivers and dig with hand tools in many locations.
Alternatively we can take a real adventurous turn and dig ourselves a home in the opal fields of NSW- some people find good sized opals when ‘building’ a new room, ( digging a bit more in their tunnel like home to make an extra room ).

$1.10 on an almost miserable southern highlands day.. is this a ‘buy on the rumour’ day?

It may well be in anticipation of the report on our October works.
Whatever the reason- those green shoots are just getting thicker week after week.