Tom Albanese

... full of material like cobalt and all these other kind of rare earth minerals that are thought to be required for the upcoming AI and robotics revolution.

Earlier this week, there was a large, um, mining, uh, round table that occurred at the White House, and, uh, one of the things that happened there was a guy called Tom Albanese, who is a former head of Rio Tinto.

He presented, uh, President Trump with a gold-plated or a solid gold replica of one of these polymetallic nodules from deep at the bottom of the ocean.

Now, he didn't say that it was, you know, a Cook Islands one, but the company that he oversees, um, American Oceanic Minerals, um, AOM, is one of the companies that's, uh, doing that prospecting now, and it was quite interesting that-