Natural Resources committee  We're in the very early stages, frankly. Indium often occurs with zinc, and that's why it's recovered from the zinc ponds at the Trail smelter, but it occurs at higher concentrations in other types of mineral deposits. One of them is tin greisen, of which we have a classic exam

Natural Resources committee  There aren't very many being produced now, and if you do, you have to ship them offshore because there is no refining capacity at the present time. I think a lot of the problem is that this has been the culture of the mining industry historically, to just make the concentrates an

Natural Resources committee  As I mentioned earlier, the Saskatchewan Research Council has created a very positive precedent there for a modest-scale demonstration plant to process rare earth minerals and also a facility to do the separation part of the processing required to make the individual rare earth o

Natural Resources committee  Not many. China has been way ahead of us on this all along, recognizing that they have to build out the downstream to justify the development of the upstream side. It looks like the EU is now starting to really take the reins on it over there, from what Simon was saying earlier a

Natural Resources committee  In terms of raw materials, we have them all in the ground in abundance.

Natural Resources committee  Often there are closure plans in place on these closed mine sites that have financial assurance bonding requirements that often can be pretty intimidating to try to take control of if you're a small-cap entrepreneurial company. That's the circumstance we've been trying to deal

Natural Resources committee  We have to get moving, because there are other countries out there that have similar aspirations. We could miss the boat if we don't get going here quickly. I'll speak to one question that I think Mr. Deith partially answered earlier. One thing the federal government could do is

Natural Resources committee  I can add to that, too, Greg, if you'd like, for a few seconds.

Natural Resources committee  That is incorrect information, Mr. McLean. That operation has essentially no recoverable cesium left there anymore. That's why Cabot sold it; there was nothing left.

Natural Resources committee  It was a producer of cesium. It no longer is, other than.... I think they're trying to recover some from the waste.

Natural Resources committee  We can take care of that, Greg. Avalon has a tremendous cesium resource, and we're waiting to try to move forward with it.

Natural Resources committee  Which one would you like me to speak to, specifically?

Natural Resources committee  I followed the Nemaska story. The mistake they made was that they took a miner's approach and tried to make it too large-scale too quickly. With many of these operations, you're best to start out at a more modest scale and make sure your process flow sheet works. You start with a

Natural Resources committee  There is starting to be more interest in this from the federal government. There's a national organization for abandoned mines sites. Traditionally, they are viewed as perpetual liabilities and no-go zones, but they are starting to do some research on them to see what's there. In

Natural Resources committee  If I may, I'd like to comment on your question on China.