That's a great question.
First, in the area where the Wagner Group is present—and we are seeing that it has an expanding footprint, which started with Mali and Mozambique and is moving faster to Burkina Faso, to Niger and, probably soon enough, to Chad—there is no possibility to compete when providing security to local workers and foreign workers. As an example, there is a Canadian mine that, due to the insurgence in CAR, not far from Bangui, they momentarily left. The Wagner Group possesses it now, with a value that the U.S. Treasury estimates is between $1 billion and $2.8 billion U.S.
The problem that the Canadian mining sector is facing is not unique to Canada. It also affects other countries that operate in partnership with African countries in the sector, even China. It's quite paradoxical, but even China, having a no-limits friendship with Russia, is on a competing foot with Russia, especially with the Wagner Group and mercenaries. Mercenaries are there to prey on chaos and to promote more chaos in order to exploit natural resources, while normal mining operations work only when there is security.