RE:RE:RE:Maybe we could benefit from a deal like thisBigJake if I am not mistaken, the PADCOM mine was built for a couple million dollars using a shoestring budget including portable equipment. From there they got the governments ear and more money was invested provincially in support of the project.
In my opinion, there will only be one way to perfect this novel tech and depending on the complexity of Gensource's cavern model, I doubt it would cost much more than that to drill a proof of concept cavern. From that point cold leaching / hot leaching / thermal / dissolution tests would need to be conducted over a period of time as the cavern increases in volume.
Technical guys like oldsalt, would likely have a better idea on time line expectations to drill and build a functioning cavern along with testing requirements.