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Jim (0:41:34): I know your 2024 Bottom-Fish Collection is for KRO members only but can you tell us the name of its strangest member? Chuck Fipke's Metalex Ventures Ltd is the oddest member of the 2024 Bottom-Fish Collection because Chuck has had zero success discovering Ekati for Dia Met, an Metalex is a multi-decade disappointment with one rollback along the way. But the reason I made it a BF and bought it as such was news in November that the company has discovered that spodumene grains ended up in the otherwise uninteresting intermediate grain density fraction of the 10,000 plus till samples Metalex has collected in Quebec James Bay region, initially for diamond indicator minerals, but later also for other heavy elements such as gold. This is the same path followed by Dios Exploration Inc, another bottom-fish, except on a much bigger scale. The company has a couple claims called A1 and A2 located between Brunswick's Mirage and Winsome's Adina projects which were staked for gold, but have pegmatite outcrops that Chad Ualansky's team managed to sample after the fire closure lifted. They did not have an XRF or LIBS unit so whether they are LCT-type will hinge on assays. But Metalex is now looking at ways to efficiently check the samples in areas that are open. They have already done so with samples down ice from known LCT-type pegmatites, so they know the spodumene grains are a meaningful indicator. But most of the staking by juniors has focused on greenstone belts, which are only coincidental to pegmatite emplacement, So my gamble is that once Metalex has checked out its samples, it may discover prominent and short spodumene trains emanating from areas wide open to staking. The hedge is that the junior finally gets a mining lease granted on the Vijoenshof project in South Africa near Kimberley where a cluster of small kimberlites found by De Beers during the sixties but abandoned because "too small" has excellent chemistry for both ecologitic and harzburgitic diamond source rocks.