I understand perfectly well the role of an advisory board. I also understand that their companies may be used in other roles in the future.
look at Roberts expertise. He is a plastics laminate guy. You know what that means? Fiberglass. He builds the tanks and buildings made of fiberglass for chemical extraction. Chemical extraction is not how niobium is extracted. It is a step in the process but it is not the process in general.
I do not think he is a one trick pony as stated in his bio.
His expertise also involves design and installation of Rare Earth Element extraction plant equipment.
And their seems to be more than one way to skin a cat as this patent suggests.
)The invention relates to the hydro-metallurgical processing of ore concentrates, more specifically to the processing of a loparite concentrate, and can be used for the complex extraction of titanium, niobium and tantalum compounds therefrom. The inventive method consists in breaking the loparite concentrate by mineral acid, separating the titanium, niobium and tantalum compounds from rare-earth elements and subsequently producing titanium niobium and tantalum fluorides by using fluorohydrogen acid. The novelty of the invention lies in that the loparite concentrate is broken down by chlorhydric acid, the separation of titanium niobium and tantalum is carried out by the extraction thereof from chloride solutions with the aid of an organic mixture which contains alkyl-phosphoric acid, the fluoride solutions of rare metals being produced by the re-extraction thereof from an extract with the aid of concentrated fluorohydrogen acid. Said invention makes it possible to simplify the process by excluding stages of dissolving the hydrate cake in fluorohydrogen acid, thereby excluding the stages of dissolution of solutions containing titanium, niobium and tantalum and stages of filtration and washing.
hmmm... The invention relates to the hydro-metallurgical processing of ore concentrates. What did the bio say about Yeates again?
Through Robert Yeates Holdings Limited (RYHL) he has been involved in numerous projects around the world, including design and construction of specialized equipment for hydro metallurgical processing in the mining industry.