Gerard Barron

They control 70% of the nickel market.

And they play the long game.

They're playing with the classification standards.

They're playing with the IMO standards, trying to put in place initiatives that would become very expensive for the shipping industry, but only they can supply the equipment.

And we saw Secretary Rubio come out and stamp on that the other day.

I was very pleased to see that.

So it's very complex and they're very smart and tactical, the Chinese.

And you asked before, does America have the will and endeavor to fix this?

And I think...

the trend of this administration does.

They see the problem and they've got people in power who see the problem and they're putting in long-term strategic fixes.

I know in our case, we've had many meetings become a frequent visitor to the White House because they are making it very clear that they want to support us to come and build processing capacity on USA soil.

But they also recognize that

Capital needs to be available to do that and when you're competing against a country like China where capital is Freely available from the state Then you've got to have something equally Enticing from US government to encourage it as well So I think that Building

Reliable supply of all of these critical minerals and including rare earths.

We saw them do a deal with MP the other day You know, it was a smart deal I think we've heard from the administration that they're going to do more deals like that Because they want to see investment on the ground.

They want to see jobs created There are so many good knock-on benefits like we talked about before bring jobs back, you know, and I think

giving people purpose is another benefit that's gonna come out of this, you know?

Yes.

Yeah, totally.