Yes, David Harquail generously provided $10 million to the department of earth sciences, which is now the Harquail school of earth sciences, and metal earth. He provided the dollars before he knew that we were going to be successful with metal earth. He saw the need to support mineral exploration research centres, and the one at Laurentian, especially, to be successful.
We cannot just have individual research done. There's research done by individuals at every university, but to do the big science projects that tackle major problems, we need research centres. David Harquail saw that, and he also saw the need to train the next generation of geoscientists. That's why he saw us.
We are moving forward with other companies now in metal earth. I would like to say that metal earth is not a seven-year wonder. We want to see that it continues beyond that. We're now looking at using industry dollars to leverage government dollars through NSERC—hopefully there will be more dollars in that pot—or direct funding from government to leverage those industry dollars. This would enable programs to be run that are parallel to metal earth, that don't leverage metal earth dollars but run parallel and tackle those same problems, so we can continue to have mineral exploration research done at this scale in Canada.
We're in the process of doing that. We have four companies now interested in participating, in addition to the companies we have.