To the United States of America by Robert Bridges, read for LibriVox.org by Ankeela for July 4th, 2007. Brothers in blood, they who this wrong began to wreck our commonwealth will rue the day when first they challenged Freeman to the fray and with the Britain dared the American. Now are we pledged to win the rights of man. Labor and justice now shall have their way and in a league of peace God grant we may transform the earth not patch up the old plan. Sure is our hope since he who led your nation spake for mankind and ye arose in awe of that high call to work the world's salvation, clearing your minds of all estranging blindness in the vision of beauty and the spirit's law, freedom and honor of sweet loving kindness. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. To the United States of America by Robert Bridges, read for LibriVox.org by The Bookworm for July 4th, 2007. Brothers in blood, they who this wrong began to wreck our commonwealth will rue the day when first they challenged Freeman to the fray and with the Britain dared the American. Now are we pledged to win the rights of man. Labor and justice now shall have their way and in a league of peace God grant we may transform the earth not patch up the old plan. Sure is our hope since he who led your nation spake for mankind and ye rose in awe of that high call to work the world's salvation, clearing your minds of all estranging blindness in the vision of beauty and the spirit's law, freedom and honor and sweet loving kindness. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. To the United States of America by Robert Bridges, read for LibriVox.org by David Best for July 4th, 2007. Brothers in blood, they who this wrong began to wreck our commonwealth will rue the day when first they challenged Freeman to the fray and with the Britain dared the American. Now are we pledged to win the rights of man. Labor and justice now shall have their way and in a league of peace God grant we may transform the earth not patch up the old plan. Sure is our hope since he who led your nation spake for mankind and ye rose in awe of that high call to work the world's salvation, clearing your minds of all estranging blindness in the vision of beauty and the spirit's law, freedom and honor and sweet loving kindness. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. To the United States of America by Robert Bridges, read for LibriVox.org by Aeroet for July 4th, 2007. Brothers in blood, they who this wrong began to wreck our commonwealth will rue the day when first they challenged Freeman to the fray and with the Britain dared the American. Now are we pledged to win the rights of man. Labor and justice now shall have their way and in a league of peace God grant we may transform the earth not patch up the old plan. Sure is our hope since he who led your nation spake for mankind and ye rose in awe of that high call to work the world's salvation, clearing your minds of all estranging blindness in the vision of beauty and the spirit's law, freedom and honor and sweet loving kindness. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. To the United States of America by Robert Bridges, read for LibriVox.org by Joe Breneman for July 4th, 2007. Brothers in blood, they who this wrong began to wreck our commonwealth will rue the day when they first challenged Freeman to the fray and with the Britain dared the American. Now are we pledged to win the rights of man, labor and justice shall now have their way and in a league of peace God grant we may transform the earth not patch up the old plan. Sure is our hope since he who led your nation spake for mankind and ye rose in awe of that high call to work the world's salvation, clearing your minds of all estranging blindness in the vision of beauty and the spirit's law, freedom and honor. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. To the United States of America by Robert Bridges, read for LibriVox.org for July 4th, 2007 by Leanne Howlett. Brothers in blood, they who this began to wreck our commonwealth will rue the day when first they challenged Freeman to the fray and with the Britain dared the American. Now are we pledged to win the rights of man, labor and justice now shall have their way and in a league of peace God grant we may transform the earth not patch up the old plan. Sure is our hope since he who led your nation spake for mankind and ye rose in awe of that high call to work the world's salvation, clearing your minds of all estranging blindness in the vision of beauty and the spirit's law, freedom and honor and sweet loving kindness. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. To the United States of America by Robert Bridges, read for LibriVox.org by Nicholas James Bridgewater for July 4th, 2007. Brothers in blood, they who this wrong began to wreck our commonwealth will rue the day when first they challenged Freeman to the fray and with the Britain dared the American. Now are we pledged to win the rights of man, labor and justice now shall have their way and in a league of peace God grant we may transform the earth not patch up the old plan. Sure is our hope since he who led your nation spake for mankind and ye rose in awe of that high call to work the world's salvation, clearing your minds of all estranging blindness in the vision of beauty and the spirit's law. Freedom and honor and sweet loving kindness. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. To the United States of America by Robert Bridges, read for LibriVox.org by Robert Scott for July 4th, 2007. Brothers in blood, they who this wrong began to wreak our commonwealth will rue the day when first they challenged Freeman to the fray and with the Britain dared the American. Now are we pledged to win the rights of man, labor and justice now shall have their way and in the league of peace God grant we may transform the earth not patch up the old plan. Sure is our hope since he who led your nation spake for mankind and ye rose in awe of that high call to work the world's salvation, clearing your minds of all estranging blindness in the vision of beauty and the spirit's law. Freedom and honor and sweet loving kindness. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. To the United States of America by Robert Bridges, for LibriVox.org narrated by Sean McKinley for Independence Day, 2007. Brothers in blood, they who this wrong began to wreak our commonwealth will rue the day when first they challenged Freeman to the fray and with the Britain dared the American. Now we are pledged to win the rights of man, labor and justice now shall have their way and in a league of peace God grant we may transform the earth not patch up the old plan. Sure is our hope since he who led your nation spake of mind and ye rose in awe of that high call to work the world's salvation, clearing your minds of all estranging blindness in the vision of beauty and the spirit's law. Freedom and honor and sweet loving kindness. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. To the United States of America by Robert Bridges, for LibriVox.org narrated by Sean McKinley for Independence Day, 2007. Brothers in blood, they who this wrong began to wreak our commonwealth will rue the day when first they challenged Freeman to the fray and with the Britain dared the American. Now we are pledged to win the rights of man, labor and justice now shall have their way and in a league of peace God grant we may transform the earth not patch up the old plan. Sure is our hope since he who led your nation spake of mankind and ye rose in awe of that high call to work the world's salvation, clearing your minds of all estranging blindness in the vision of beauty and the spirit's law. Freedom and honor and sweet loving kindness. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. To the United States of America by Robert Bridges, read for LibriVox.org for July 4, 2007 by Squid Vajlakova. Found at frisco-squid.blogspot.com. To the United States of America. Brothers in blood, they who this wrong began to wreak our commonwealth will rue the day when first they challenged Freeman to the fray and with the Britain dared the American. Now we are pledged to win the rights of man, labor and justice now shall have their way and in a league of peace God grant we may transform the earth not patch up the old plan. Sure is our hope since he who led your nation spake of mankind and ye rose in awe of that high call to work the world's salvation, clearing your minds of all estranging blindness in the vision of beauty and the spirit's law. Freedom and honor and sweet loving kindness. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain. To the United States of America by Robert Bridges, read for LibriVox.org by Zachary Brewstergeis for July 4, 2007. Brothers in blood, they who this wrong began to wreak our commonwealth will rue the day when first they challenged Freeman to the fray and with the Britain dared the American. Now we are pledged to win the rights of man, labor and justice now shall have their way and in a league of peace God grant we may transform the earth not patch up the old plan. Sure is our hope since he who led your nation spake of mankind and ye rose in awe of that high call to work the world's salvation, clearing your minds of all estranging blindness in the vision of beauty and the spirit's law. Freedom and honor and sweet loving kindness. End of poem. This recording is in the public domain.


Good morning, Randy. You're in the Denver area. That's correct, Jack. Thanks so much for having me on today. It's great to see you. Same. Randy, I've been reading in the newspapers that you Synchron Corporation advanced their agreement with your company to buy 49% and has completed that purchase. Is that correct? Yeah, that's correct, Jack. Give you a little bit of background on it. Back in October of 2017, Synchron, which as you know is an affiliate of General Atomics, a large private defense contractor technology company, made an investment in rare element resources to acquire about 33% of ownership of the company. At the time, we also provided an option to acquire up to 49% of the company for an additional $5 million, and that option lasted for about four years. However, we're happy to say that Synchron has decided to exercise its option two years earlier than that for your period. Would you like to comment on why they advanced at that time, or would you like me to speculate? Well, I'll give you a brief answer. I do believe that the work that we've been doing over the past year or two, working with another General Atomics affiliate in Germany to confirm and enhance and improve our processing technology, that work has been going well, and we've progressed it now to pilot plant stage, and that's all happening right now. I think the other reason you can speculate would be that General Atomics is a technology company, and if you go to their website and look around to see all of the different kinds of businesses they're in, they really have a foot in the future, and hopefully, clearly, they think the rare earth business has something to do or will contribute to the future development of economies around the globe. Well, my speculation, that's correct, but my speculation goes a little more into detail. I know the General Atomics, for example, is the contractor for the rail gun, the electromagnetic cannon, that the Navy hopes will replace gunpowder type weapons on their ships, and it is also very much involved in the catapults for aircraft carriers, both of which are enormous electromagnet projects, and I always tell people, they say, well, what's electromagnet's got to do with rare earth permanent magnets? I say, well, let's look at this way. $105 million F-35 is going down the deck of the Gerald Ford, and the power system fails, so do we have $105 million worth of junk in a dead pilot, or do we have giant rare earth permanent magnets that are rolling along and making sure that the plane can safely be brought down? Well, that's how it works. Same thing with the rail gun. You can't depend on electromagnetic operations, so you always have to back up a permanent magnet. The Navy also is telling us publicly they're going to use three and four tons of rare earth magnets per warship from now on in the drivetrain, and so General Atomics is very much involved in all of this stuff, and I have a question about, so going back to the reality, I have a question about something you're doing. I'm familiar with the General Atomics research and development systems in Germany. There's about 600 people there, and the managers are all long-experienced PhDs in physics and physical sciences, and my question is, I recall from our past association that you had an internal development of a solvent extraction separation system at the company more or less fully developed two years ago. Is that the system that's being tried out by Syncron, if you can tell me? I'd be happy to expand on that, Jack. That's a great question. There really are two parts to the proprietary technology that we developed, and the first was the leach precipitation technology and the ability to produce this 98 to 99 percent mixed rare earth concentrate, and of course that was such a high-grade concentrate that we decided that we would take a look at moving into the separation side of things, and back in 2014 and a little bit into 2015, we were doing the initial test work and initial pilot plant testing, although at a small scale, of the solvent extraction process that we had developed over the previous year or two. That is exactly the same technology that UIT has confirmed for us and is piloting now. I would say one other important thing, and again, it goes back to how important having a great partner is in this business, and that is, as you mentioned, UIT in Germany, great PhD scientists, knowledgeable about extraction, liquid-liquid extraction, liquid-solid extraction, and they not only have confirmed technology, but they've made some contributions to improving the technology that we'll probably report on in the not too distant future. You're basically in the lead of the pack, Randy, because in fact, any rare earth producer in development that doesn't have strong connections, that doesn't have strong connections downstream in processing, and the rest of supply chain is just out of luck. I think that your combination of your mind, which as you know, I think is probably, in my opinion, about the best deposit in the United States for development, that combination with a super technology company like General Atomics, which because it's private, the public isn't aware of all the things they do. I don't know anything General Atomics does that isn't high-tech. I assume they have high-tech bathrooms in their equities. I don't know, but I mean very high-tech. So it's an excellent combination. You have an excellent deposit. And I just, in checking on your website, I see that Jay Pickert is still with you and in a previous conversation, you told me he was monitoring these developments in Germany on site. Yeah, that's correct, Jack. We've tried to be very good stewards of our shareholders' funds over the last four or five years, particularly during the downtime. And during that period, we cut back quite strongly to preserve the cash as much as we could, but we've been very fortunate in that three or four of the key employees who were actively involved, including Jay and some others, have stayed with us. And we've been able to provide additional consulting work as we went through the process of updating, for example, our baseline environmental data in 2018, as well as participating and monitoring in the development of the process technology. Well, I think that, quite frankly, you're way ahead of everybody else, Randy, in the United States is what I'm saying. And I wish you the best of luck. And I don't want to say something foolish like, you know, you came back from the dead, but you flew under the radar, Randy. And I really wasn't. Sorry. Go ahead. Go ahead. We prefer the term fly under the radar, Jack. I got it. I got it. It's my fault. My fault. You were never dead. You were just resting. Okay. So I have experience, obviously, with your very fine company and with General Atomics. And that's a crackerjack combination. And I think you've flown under the radar of some people in the Department of Defense. But I think that's changing very, very rapidly. So again, I want to keep in touch because I want to know what you're doing. And, Randy, you're one of the good guys. You'd be an excellent CIA guy because you never give anything away. You know, even when you've had one or two drinks, I can't get anything out of you. So thank you. And please keep us informed on what's going on because I'm sure that Rare Element Resources is back to stake. Thank you, Jack. Appreciate the opportunity.