This is a difficult question to answer. If you look at the mining industry today, it's been in significant challenges for the last decade, with volatile commodity markets, depressed markets, etc. The cash flows for the mining industry have been very significantly impaired. If you compare it to the oil and gas industry, for example, the margins are very slim. It's been very challenging. That being said, the industry is starting on an upswing. It is just starting to come back.
In our experience with CMIC and existing projects, we start with very small investments, and the industry comes to the table and increases those investments. For example, in our exploration consortium, we started with a matching investment of only $300,000, and that grew to $7 million in a very short period.
Number one, it's a bit of a challenge to say how much exact financial support will be there today. Number two, we have to understand, as well, the value of the collaboration and the input of the mining industry right now, with very senior people, such as Jean Robitaille, his collaborators, his counterparts in other sectors, other industries—chief operating officers, and CEOs even. They are sitting around the table at CMIC defining technology road maps, defining targets, planning projects, and investing their time and energy. We've estimated that that investment is between $5 million and $10 million a year, which is a real value to the activities of CMIC. They simply would not be at the table if this were not of value, if that were not significant.
The industry will match it. We just can't say specifically today how much matching funding we have on the table.