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Cerro Colorado is a very historical and important project to Panama. It goes way back to the 1970s, back to the Omar Torrijos days.
Our work in the comarca has been very simple. We have an agreement to do training. We've trained in responsible mining. My established colleague, Mr. Kneen, talked about IBAs. We do training on IBAs. We share a lot of different examples of the good, the bad, and the ugly in mining with the people, because at the end of the day, Cerro Colorado is going to be a 70-year project. And appreciate that it's surrounded 100% by Ngöbe people, 160,000 strong, and there is only one road in. So if the people feel they've been lied to or haven't been given the facts, or if they don't feel they're a part of or don't participate in this particular project, at any given time they can shut down the project. They're going to sit on the road, and that's something we've talked to them about.
We want to make sure, if it's a Canadian company that comes in as the developer, that they are a good corporate citizen, and we teach the people what to look for in Canadian mining companies.
We didn't just go in and say, we're going to develop this thing. First of all, we had to teach the people what this mining thing is, and not only teach them in Spanish but in their own traditional language. We have a huge population out there that can't even read and write, so we have to draw pictures, make diagrams. This has been two and a half years of training, week after week after week with people, making sure they have the right information and also informing them of what a failed project looks like, such as the Greenstone Resources project, and why the Greenstone project failed.
We've had our stakeholders go out to the Petaquilla gold mine. They've come back and they're very excited by what they've seen there.
So we've taught them what to look for in terms of bad projects, what to look for in terms of how to deal with large mining companies, and we believe that now we have an informed population.
We're hoping in the future that they will want to advance this project. But appreciate that they have a very powerful law that says they have to be informed, they have to be advised, and they have to participate. And they're pushing the Panamanian government right now to participate and they want a percentage of this concession.
As for the second part of the question, we've probably invested almost $1 million in training so far—only training.