In Canada there is only one company having completed a DFS...Fortune Minerals and they wait for the road to be built which still has a couple of years to complete...
In the US, there is also only one company having completed a DFS..eCobalt and they are having to redo their metallurgy and are also waiting on an off take partner to help finance mine construction...
No other junior cobalt miner in Canada or US has even defined a resource yet...Australia, Namibia, Brazil and DRC is where most of the more advanced cobalt plays are at the moment..