In response to allegations that AZ took 5 years to approve land claims, I looked back into the history of LBSR's Nrs.

8/12/2014

NR 187 – Liberty Star Submits Plan of Operations For Drilling Hay Mountain Project to Arizona State Land Department: Proposed Period of Operation: September 29, 2014 to September 29, 2015.

10/13/2015

Drilling Planned-Permitting Underway - No mention of needed additional AZ permits.

3/17/2016

NR 203 – Liberty Star’s Hay Mountain Project Plan of Operation Approved by Arizona State Land Department

9/7/2016

We are finished with the permitting process and have the lands we need to start.

10/15/2018

Liberty Star Adds Land to almost Double Hay Mountain Holdings including a Carlin Style Gold Component & Pays Hay Mountain Federal Claim Fees for 2018 – 2019

There was no point in talking about it until we had the MEPs which took 5 long years and significant amounts of money. As of last week, the land is ours and we can begin exploration when funding is available.” [Jim Briscoe]

http://www.libertystaruranium.com/2018/10/15/liberty-star-adds-land-pays-hay-mountain-federal-claim-fees-2018-2019/

I assume JB is referring to Mining Environmental Protocol Assessment – MEP's.

Why in the previous NR's and Director updates was their no mention of the MEP's?

When the Oct. 2018 notice came out, there was the insinuation that the 9 sq. miles of land just became available., that is was previously held. Can't blame AZ if that was the case.

But it does fault JB's management. Was he willing to wait indefinitely to acquire that land?