This is about people I work with. It’s a bit misleading in that the lab I work in (also here) is not actually part of the copper project and has separate funding, but the quote about mutual benefits is true and we do have good collaborations between the two groups. I have to wonder whether Ninian Blackburn (whom I have never met; he works on a different campus) came across as somewhat patronising to the interviewer, given the quote with which the piece ends.