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Currently, Ares Strategic Mining employs a team of roughly 15 engineers and geologists, plus a corporate team of directors and managers. According to James, every member of the team, both on site and in the office, is “very excited about the project.” “Everyone’s pretty happy about where we are because it doesn’t look like a project that can really fail at this point,” he says. “We’ve done all the hard legwork. We’ve done all the hard design work. We’ve proven our case economically.” James says their team has also invested a lot of time and energy into the project, and they are excited to see their investment pay dividends. James cites Raul Sanabria as someone whose efforts have been particularly instrumental. He was the fluorspar expert that James initially visited Utah with. After acquiring the mine, A happy team OCT - NOV 2021