LBSR is kinda in the cat-bird seat, thanks to JB&BOD,  One from the experts in the know is that Gold to market is not being produced by a considerable measure.  Think scaricity, think of retirement funds, endowment funds and soverign wealth funds, that virtually have no mentionable investment in gold bullion, pressure. Anyhow back to JB&BOD/HM/&/SBE,, the catbird seat is that should ASARCO not be the Groom in waiting that market pressures are evolving as these Funds see GOLD as a much more notable asset if Banks can keep GOLD HOSTAGE in their vaults (idle) in that they are not even pronuncing PPO as a monatary insurance for FIAT money and agin if and when that occurs and GOLD jumps onto the GOLD STANDARD,, think WOW for GOLD as the apprecieation is expected to give GOLD a noticable pricetag.  From my previous 2008 and 2010 rantings i could see as a logistical value of easy $500,000.oo Per Ounce whereas more practically it should perform more in line with movements such as "bit-coin" even though i hate to mention "bit coin", and really like block chain. Block chain hasent even started as yet and the danger for bit coin is that the fizzel fuze has already ben lit.  Just mentioning tht the DAY OLD breaks out that it will not be an unpriced commidity and with a real asset to owners that can hold in hand if they so choose like buying "bit-coin" which you can not or other such phantom pokes.  Agin from looking at progress at HM or well SBE should they breakout, well it will be much much bigger that ALASKA in 2010.  I have been with LBSR from 2004 when "CRAZY JIM" sent me a flyer in the US mail which landed into my mailbox at home and to this day i am on board.  The GLOBAL stage has been set: Gold is underproduced, the current 90 million ounces per year is fallin far short of supply side so pawn shops are one of the number one sources of filling the need not the mines, thats good for LBSR, remove the BANKING chains from GOLD and we will have the confidence of JQP to swing their money over to buying up all of the GOLD they can and the pressure will drive the PPO to who knowhow high!  10k,20k,30k?  Then ther is the 350 million  trillion volts of energy shortages with the new EV's on the road by 2035.  So we need COPPER and we need GOLD, GOLD to Insure the investment in GOLD mines and highway buildout wit the EV demands pressed upon us thru booming economics.  We are reaching MASS already and trillions of trillions of dollars are needed to build out in so many areas to make life as comfortable as it has been for the last 60 or 70 years.  All i can say here is "bit-coin" is the BRE-EX of year 2017-18 as Society is seeking for financial soundness and bit-coin is not it,, block chain is to an high degree.  My point here is not to say that i am the know it all but i am only attempting to point out events that are present and are of MASS that is making these pressing needs to the point that they demand attention by our Investors, our governments, and far and away by OUR BANKs relating to the Currency TREASURY notes that are now merely FIAT money and we have tons of GOLD that should be turned loose onto society to seek its own level and stay the madness of fiat paper in our pigie banks.  When we get real money GOLD DOLLARS we will have economic explosion that will birth industry and wealth galore.  Funnie how it looks to me that metals are the KEY and namely by replacing FIAT paper with GOLD DOLLARS.  Takes me back to all of the GOLD that the ROMAN EMPIRE paid to the MONGOL HOARDS so they would not invade ROME, their capital city.