Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Since I had anticipated my colleagues would ask questions about a variety of other issues, I figured I might as well ask a few questions about the targeted geoscience initiative.
In your speaking notes, you laid out quite a few things that the targeted geoscience initiative does, such as innovative techniques to better detect deeply buried mineral deposits and to better understand the processes by which metals accumulate. You repeated again about greater depth and distance from known deposits. You talked about the publications that had been done, and I think about the grad studies that have been supported.
This is just a basic question. An extra $1.3 million in operating funds is not going to cover all of that. You'd spend way more than $1.3 million with just the things I listed. With the $1.3 million, what was particularly needing extra funding?