The one thing that has never been clarified - are there any NDA's with miners?

An educated guess should be "of course".

Which big miner will not want to jump into the race when there,s an "amazing saving grace" like Zenyatta which may rescue any of them from potential oblivion given the sorry state of the mining industry these days.The only question is which company should be the best to mine Albany.The top of my list should not exclude a couple of diamond miners who know best how to extract minerals from pipes.

The winning miner has to hand over the future patented technologies(given by Zen) to an assigned lab so that they can "refine" the Albany graphite and supply directly into the hands of designated end- users as specified- finished products.I understand that some of the high tech giants like Mitsubishi and Sumitomo also have their own mining divisions.But the Canadian Goverment may have something to say about this.Let,s wait and see.