CLONTARF ENERGY PLC (CLON) — Investor Presentation

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the CLONTARF ENERGY PLC Investor Meeting. Throughout this recorded meeting, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and can be submitted at any time by the Q and A tab situated in the right corner of your screen. Just simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question received in the meeting itself. However, the company can review all the questions submitted today and public responses where it is appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. I'd now like to hand you over to David Hawken. Good afternoon to you, sir. Afternoon, and thanks everyone for investing your time in speaking to us. We have some time, so with everyone's permission, I'd like to give a quick introduction to explain the context because it is a complex and rapidly evolving industry. Basically, we're involved in the provision of clean and green lithium brines to make high purity lithium for the battery industry, which is mainly used at the moment in the EV market, but also in rapidly evolving new technologies as well as applications you're familiar with, such as computers, iPhones, etcetera. So if you can see this presentation, we're focused on the European initiative, which seeks clean sources of reliable supplies, not just in lithium, but also principally in cobalt and rare earths. Basically, the European Union has recently passed a Critical Resource Minerals Act, which identifies 34 essential minerals, of which 17 are nominated as strategic. And the reason why this initiative is being rushed ahead now rather than heretofore basically, is the success of China in dominating the, many of the critical minerals in the world. They've had a strategy for the last ...