Carlos de Alba
Morgan Stanley, Research Division

This last session of the Mining Symposium on Critical Minerals and rare earths. It is a pleasure to host NioCorp. Mark Smith is Executive Chairman, President and CEO. And we also have Jim Sims in the forum. We’re going to keep it hopefully very conversational. You can also meet questions via the Zoom app. We will read it once we get it for Mark or Jim to answer. But before we begin, please let me mention some disclaimers. Please note that this webcast is for Morgan Stanley clients and select employees or appropriate employees, I should say. This webcast is not for members of the press.

And if you are a member of the press, please disconnect and reach out separately. For important disclosures, please see the Morgan Stanley research disclosure website at www.morganstanley.com/researchdisclosures. And if you have any questions, please reach out to your Morgan Stanley sales representative. All right. So with that out of the way, Mark, the — we’re going to just keep it conversational, as I said, we have some questions, [ Mark ] and I and then as the audience starts to send theirs, we’ll also ask them to answer those, please. Maybe just to set the stage and before I pass it on to Mark, would you just present a brief introduction of the company, a little bit of the history, and then we kick it off from there.

Mark Smith
Executive Chairman, President & CEO

Very good, Carlos. And again, thank you — and [ Mark ] for this wonderful opportunity. I think this