Gerard Barron

you know, to just slow things down, to let us run out of money.

And we were lucky to have amazingly supportive shareholders.

I mentioned Andre before and All Seas and myself agreed to keep funding the business.

And we lent the company money.

And because we believed we didn't want to keep printing equity.

We wanted to, you know, just keep the business moving, waiting for

a moment in time when the value could be restored to something more equitable.

And so we knew there was a legal pathway to lodge the application through the United States because they had the rules in place.

So this is a very long, windy answer to your question about who's going to dominate it because now, of course, that international body, including China, have been very critical of us and of the United States of America

for operating outside of the system.

But America's like, they came out with very forceful statements saying, we've never been part of that system.

We've been a consistent objector to that system.

We have a legal right to be able to go and collect these metals.

You, 169 countries, all agreed to be bound by those set of rules that you can't even agree on.

So why don't you just keep doing whatever it is you're doing, and we'll see you out there.

It is.

It is.

And the administration have been amazing, ranging from the regulator, Noah, Secretary Lutnick.

We were lucky to have a lot of people that the president chose in his cabinet who we knew well when they're in opposition.

They'd been big supporters of ours, and they'd written letters on our behalf and lobbied