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Critical Minerals and Mining's Future with Lomiko's Belinda Labatte

On The Rocks

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Mining Graphite - Are You Taking the PEA to PFS?

We are looking at La Lúth in Quebec. We have crystalline flate graphite, which is what most deposits are in Canada. You're going to be mining a concentrate and that's going to be 95, 96% carbon. And then to get it to the battery material, you need to go through this purification process,. And then it becomes sericalGraphite, which you can then put into the anode battery. And for that, you need 99.9% purity. I think that it is essential that any company that is mining graphite look at the next value added manufacturing of that. Because if we don't, we're simply shipping it out to China

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