The use of water at Thacker Pass is going to be a major hurdle, bigger than sage brush problems. Water use in mining is paramount to any process, and clay separation is still a drawing board to pilot project process. As indicated in various documents, there are still machines and equipment that needs to be designed and built to handle a process that has never been done before. Who is doing this designing and building of these so far phantom machines? What might they look like, how will they work, and ultimately what will the cost be for machinery used in a process that has never been accomplished before? I would surely like to hear from someone that knows more than I, but I maintain that LAC management has still not figured out how to move forward successfully, either financially or mechanically. They are going to need lots of money, and I don't believe that they are in the driver's seat but rather at the mercy of predators. As for the ranting from the environmentalists, well that is nothing new and would most likely be heard out and result in stock platitudes from the Feds and State regulators with proposals for tightening public safety measures. The mine will be built, some time, somewhere. The price of lithium will no doubt rise incrementally, but should be no more than a commodity. And there is always money to be made in commodities.  Go LAC..!?