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NextSource Materials to collaborate on battery anode plant in Madagascar with Japanese and Chinese partners

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executed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with its Japanese offtake partner and a leading Chinese processor of graphite anode material to collaborate on the construction of a value-add, battery anode plant in a jurisdiction that is proximal to the Company’s Molo graphite project in Madagascar. Canada-based NextSource Materials Inc. Mt at 7.02%C.

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A closer look at graphite—its forms, functions and future in EV batteries

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Graphex is a major global producer and distributor of graphite in its various forms. After they’re done with their concentration, now you have 95% purity of carbon in this material called flake graphite, or concentrate, and that’s the material that companies like ours will purchase for further processing.

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Roskill: Spread of COVID-19 threatens cobalt supply; bottlenecks out of DRC

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As COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide, the pandemic is having an unprecedented impact on the global economy and commodity markets, including cobalt. Roskill expects the cobalt market to face more severe supply disruption should the prevention and control measures be further extended on a global scale. Gulley, Erin A.

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