CEOCFO: Mr. Kennedy, your site tagline is, “Understanding the larger issues.” What does that mean Three Consulting?
Mr. Kennedy: Three Consulting is the combination of a number of things that I have been working on over the last decade. It includes mining of basic commodities like iron, extraction of high-
CEOCFO: You have been researching it and now what?
Mr. Kennedy: This all came about from the acquisition of an iron ore mine in late 2001. I started working on redeveloping the iron ore mine and in the process of evaluating mineralogy we discovered that the deposit was very rich in rare earth elements and that caused me to go on a journey of discovery. As early as 2009 I engaged with the federal government and tried to alert them to the risk associated with our nations complete failure to be current or active in this space (rare earths). In addition to providing a lot of information to the federal government over the last decade, I have consulted financial companies, mining companies, and governments, on the geopolitical implications of rare earths.
This included an invitation to speak at the United Nations in 2014 on issues related to critical materials and the related element thorium, which is a nuclear fuel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLR39sT_bTs&t=14s ).
In short all of this stemmed from a mining project that we sold back in 2012 and through a lot of circumstances we now own the entire project again and we are doing high level engineering work related to redeveloping the mine as a green steel project and of course recover the rare earth resources that are associated with it. It was a 15 year walk down the path of discovery and it has culminated in potentially the first truly economic hydrocarbon-