Dear committee members, I am pleased to be here to talk to you not only about Corem, but also about our partnership in the development of a rare earth elements consortium.
I'm the president and CEO of Corem, a non-profit organization. It's an expertise and innovation centre dedicated to mineral processing. Our mission is to develop and deploy innovations for the Canadian mining industry, whether to improve competitiveness, metallurgical performance or environmental performance. We work very closely with private industry. Commerce Resources and Vital Metals are two of our partners. Essentially, what distinguishes us is our proximity to the industry.
We have a research program—
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