Habanadude, Nice encouraging post my friend. You are right that the specialty staff and board members cannot promote a loser and have to live with egg on their faces. Their reputations and livlihoods are on the line. As you stated, they want to produce a block buster PEA. When all are happy, and only then, will the PEA be released and even then it will take some time for the market to digest what story is being told. It is at this point the fireworks will get ignited. The other possibility is that a buy out will take place prior to the PEA release if the numbers are where they need be for such a once in a lifetime resource. The piece of the puzzle I don't really understand is why the NDA companies wanted material feed stock to do their own testing when ZEN seems to be doing all this ground work for all of these companies' applications. Is it as confirmation of results and have these companies indeed confirmed that what they require is indeed available from ZEN's graphite? I do believe there was date set for these testings to be completed but I'm not sure if this timeframe was indeed met? the deputy