Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks, everybody, for joining us here today.
I want to start with you, Mr. Kingston, on a couple of topics, probably first on the critical minerals piece.
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence estimates that we need more than 300 new mines to be able to keep up with the demand required for batteries by 2035. I'm hoping you can provide your insight on that, and then also could you speak to some of the competitiveness and decoupling issues that we're seeing with the United States right now?