The key points here are that, 1) the facility at La Rochelle is only operating at about 30% of their full capacity, 2) the Chinese will only sell Solvay/ Rhodia REE feed stock if they promise to process this within China at their fully capitalized facilities there that employ a very significant number of Chinese laborers, 3) the facility in La Rochelle is set up to process (as are the facilities in China) only the minerals we are hosted by, and 4) we may be the only project that can supply the right kind of feed stock for their facility for the next several hundred years.
We are very hopeful that the current investigation by Rhodia about our feed stock – inputting our data into their software – will yield a positive result, that is that they can process our material through to the final REE end products that the Rohstoffallianz wants to buy from us. |