In answer to a question on Facebook regarding REE grades at Hay Mountain Jim responded.

Question from Anne, "What grade of rare earth is at Hay Mountain (percent of rare earth in the soil)?"

States Briscoe: "Assays of the geochemical data are the parts per million range and much less than what might be required to meet ore grade. These surface samples may be an indicator of better grades at depth, but this will have to await the drilling of core holes to see what grades are at depth, how the rare earth minerals are distributed and many other things that can only be discerned from drill core. Until these anticipated holes are drilled we will not know if we have economic amounts to exploit profitably (the definition of “ore” – please see our glossary on our web site). However, the geochemically indicated REEs anomaly is a good sign. We believe that we will develop a copper ore body which overlaps into the REEs anomaly in which REEs could be produced as a byproduct of copper mining ---a byproduct resource."