RE:RE:First QuantumThanks to RE, BH, and T4C for their posts. If FQ genuinely goes forward and announces plans to build a mine at Taca Taca that would give an immediate boost to cascadero shares IMO. That is the most realistic catalyst, again in my opinion, that cascadero has. So we keep our fingers crossed. Once there is interest, there will be more drilling on adjacent properties including cascadero's and all bets are off as to what they find.
As for Taron I think that that is a little bit more of a subjective hope at this point. Anyone can draw their own conclusions. I would never bank on it in other words myself. But if it works out for us I will take it absolutely. If it is true that their new cesium processing patent really has no application other than to Taron I am not sure what the value of applying for a patent was. I was hoping it would be something licensable to other mines already in operation but maybe not. What do I know? Since they already own the only applicable property (Taron), and it's the only property the invention can be applied to, de facto they already own everything that matters.
I'm not sure who posted the duration of a patent but it gives 20 years exclusive rights from the date of filing. In decades past it was 17 years from date of issue but that changed in the recent decade. Since patent processing is usually about 2 to 4 years that leaves about 18 to 16 years of life on the patent itself after issuance. But again since the new process perhaps doesn't apply anywhere else but Taron, it has little value beyond what cascadero already holds the rights to. Just a minor point of dotting the i's and crossing the t's.