And then there's the built-in risk that the industry, by its very nature, has always had to accept: the prospect of investing a great deal of money and effort to find a viable deposit, and coming up with nothing. ###>Le gouvernement canadien soutien en effet la R-D par l'entremise d'organismes comme les Laboratoires des mines et des sciences minérales (LMSM) de la Direction de la technologie minérale de CANMET, Ressources naturelles Canada.