It amazes me that small companies around Arizona are able to mount drilling programs on less impressive targets than Hay Mountain, but LBSR can't find a partner.  Exploration activity was accelerating - at least into the COVID scare - but we have been stuck in the mud beating the bushes for "international miners" to come to play with us.  Now investor interests are shifting a bit from copper to precious metals, especially gold. 

Certainly, the doors to partnership should be open to all who are interested in helping us into the discovery phase.  After that point is when we may be of interest to "international miners", not so much before that.