• President Hugh reported that Pek Goh is in Hollywood Hospital having a pacemaker inserted after having a heart incident at the weekend. He is expected home soon and the Club sends the members’ best wishes to him for a speedy recovery.
• John Murdoch reported that their son, David, is responsible for the videoing, production and relaying to Australia of many of the sports being covered at the Olympic Games in Paris. Well done to David.
• Anita Bourke has been asked by Ondina Brash to thank the Club members for their kind wishes and flowers on the death of Stewart and to thank those who attended the funeral.
• Richard Ranshaw announced that Gary Dienhoff is now settled at Alfred Carlson home in Claremont. If any member would like to visit Gary, please contact Richard.

• Please book and pay for the business lunch on Friday 9 August as soon as possible. Please contact John Bolto on rj.bolto@gmail.com to make arrangements.
• Russell Hawkins told the meeting of recent donations made by the Charitable Trust.

• Members may recall when Jim Mellor from Brollie Brigade came to visit and speak at our meeting with the then newly-purchased shower truck a few months ago. It has been fitted out with showers with the ability to be self-sufficient and John Bolto and Tony Chien recently visited the truck to see its progress. A donation of $10,000 has been given for the fitout of the truck.
• Also a donation of $8,000 has been given to Australian Doctors for Africa to fund the training of a medical student to become a doctor for the period of a year in Somaliland.

•  Craig James spoke about the upcoming Guy Grey-Smith exhibition viewing and morning tea to be held at the Weld Club at 10am on Wednesday 7 August. The cost is $20 per head, with half the amount donated to Club charitable projects. Please email Craig on Craig.James50@outlook.com before Friday 2 August if you are able to attend, there are a few places left.
• David Miller reported that the book drive at six Perth primary schools has now finished and was very successful.

• John Bolto reported that the football tipping was very tight with only a couple of points between first and tenth, making for interesting tipping for the last rounds.

• Foodbank – The following letter was received from Foodbank and read out by President Hugh:

• Foodbank donation – President Hugh also received another letter from Foodbank which thanked the Club for its $5,000 donation which will provide 10,000 meals.
• Treemission – President Hugh read out the following email:

• Volunteer hours for July - President Hugh read out the statistics of volunteer hours expended by Club members, their families and friends in July. (These hours do not include the time to organise the event nor the travel time, just the labour hours.) Three events this month used volunteers for manual labour. They were medical supplies sorting at SCGH on 3 July led by Anita Bourke, Foodbank packaging on 17 July led by Anthony McGrath and Treemission tree planting on 20 July led by John Bolto. A total of 57.5 hours were expended, 38.5 hours by Club members and 19 hours by family and friends. Well done to all volunteers.

• Susan Watson for winning the football tipping this week;
• Kevin Jackson for following Kim Kardashian’s facial tips;
• Bruce Jeanes for an arrival tax despite not knowing where he had been;
• Graeme Sansom because the Australians are doing well at hockey at the Olympics;
• Nigel Johnson because his jumper is the same colour as the Sergeant’s shirt and one of them will have to go home to change;
• John Hopkins for being missed by us!

• Lindsay is the Executive Director and Founder of Jindalee Lithium. Lindsay is a geologist with over 40 years of experience in multi-commodity mineral exploration, primarily in Australia. Jindalee listed on ASX in 2002 as a project generator and in 2010 paid a fully franked dividend to shareholders following the cash takeover of Energy Metals, a uranium explorer spun out of Jindalee.
• Early in 2018 Jindalee switched focus to lithium in the United States and staked claims at McDermitt in south east Oregon following encouraging surface sample results from the area. Four “proof of concept” holes drilled late 2018 highlighted the potential for large tonnages of lithium at McDermitt and in February 2023 McDermitt was confirmed as the largest lithium deposit in the US.
• Lithium is a “critical metal” due to its use in lithium-ion batteries. Only relatively recently was its significance realised. Sony lodged the first patent for Li-ion batteries in 1990.
• Electric Vehicles (EVs) are the largest and fastest growing segment of users of lithium batteries. Other users include many portable devices (e.g. phones, drones), scooters, golf carts as well as stationary electrical storage.
• 95% of the pegmatites containing lithium found in Australia are processed in China. Currently, 70% of lithium chemical processing is completed in China, making for tricky political relations. McDermitt will be able to provide lithium for 900 million EVs when in production. The USA will want McDermitt to succeed to provide locally sourced lithium to its country and Lindsay was at meetings at the Pentagon last week to request financial assistance from the US Federal Government.
• Many thanks to Lindsay for the illuminating talk.