"It's one thing doing exploration, but when you come to development, we're talking about bigger volumes of materials and to get that there is expensive because at the moment there's nothing there -- just sheep farmers, " he said.

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This is what Simon was talking about: that technology would advance and new stocks of materials would be exploitable.

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You're talking about sand, no roads, shelters that people are living in made out of local materials.

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