Posted by Pilgrim "Or you work with an end user to arrange financing."  

Pilgrim my friend, you have hit the proverbial nail on the head. There have been 50 plus NDA's sent out in the last few years. According to AE those receiving the samples rave about them. The laboratories who have had the Zen product rave about it. And yet AE has difficulty attracting enough money to complete a MET report or do a PFS. The last PP was a utter failure. AE wanted to raise $1M and raised less than half of that. Did you know that AE failed to ask some very serious shareholders (1M+ shares) if they wanted to participate in that PP? This is your statement Pilgrim "or you work with an end user to arrange financiang". If AE is not capable of knowing who his large shareholder base is and not capable of asking those people to get involved in the last PP, do you think he is capable of doing a multi million dollar deal with a potential end user?  Once again, AE is a geologist. Putting deals together or raising serious money is the job for a BOD with solid proven business experience.