From Jim's latest article : WE HAVE COBALT: "Except for lithium, Liberty Star has strong indicated anomalies for 4 of the key components required for state of the art Tesla electric autos – copper, cobalt, nickel, manganese (used in the lithium manganese battery), and rare earth elements, which are used in motor magnets, and other electrical components of the computer portions of the car. The rare earth element cerium is clearly associated with the cobalt anomaly. Iron and nickel are also associated and we are also immediately proximate to the gold-copper-lead-moly center of the porphyry." https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hay-mountain-project-we-have-cobalt-james-briscoe

More from Jim:

"We are tightening up the geochemical sample spacing over and around the cobalt- nickel- cerium anomaly so we can be more precise about its size and shape. This is being undertaken as part of our  annual assessment work obligation on some of our Arizona State Mineral prospecting permits (MEPs) which come due  every 12 months on the anniversary of the MEP(s) which are variable across the State property block.  Depending on the results of this work – which is being slowed down by an unusually wet (wettest ever recorded) monsoon rains season.  

"Depending on the outcome of these samples results after assay by Certified Laboratory ALS-Chemex) and once they are plotted onto what will be a 200 meter square grid, we may decide to tighten the grid even further to 100 square meter grid or even a 50 square meter grid,  or conceptually even a 25 meter grid  (about 165 feet)  or even a 12.5 meter on a side grid or  about 41.45 feet until we are satisfied that we have a precise target for drilling.  Remember, 100 meters is about 30 feet more than the length of a football field.  So this anomaly is quite large, as we now see it. Samples taken during this  campaign will be analyzed for all the elements determined before, plus the whole suite of rare earth elements (REEs) now that we know there are the lighter REEs present.

"There is a very large manganese anomaly on the east side of the project which could probably supply any tonnage of manganese that might be required.  Of course we anticipate a very large copper body which was very densely sampled at its center and does not need much supplemental sampling at the current time." [Aug 09]