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Tirupati Graphite opens second mine in Madagascar at Vatomina Project

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Tirupati Graphite plc, a fully integrated specialist graphite producer and graphene developer with operations in Madagascar and India, has opened its second mine in Madagascar at the Vatomina Project, where it remains on track to start commissioning the first 9,000 tpa processing plant in Q2 2021.

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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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Bass Metals to acquire San Jorge lithium brine project in Argentina

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Along with Bass’ graphite assets in Madagascar, Bass considers the San Jorge project as a logical addition to its asset base and to its strategy to be an integrated supplier of both anode and cathode materials. Bass has exposure to both. —Rick Anthon, Chairman Bass Metals.

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Roskill: graphite prices could push higher on tightening markets for batteries & electrodes

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Roskill forecasts that global sales of EVs and hybrid vehicles will increase rapidly in the coming years and could account for 69% of all motor vehicle sales by 2027. Syrah Resources jump-started the ROW graphite supply chain when it brought its Balama flake graphite project online in November 2017.

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Tirupati Graphite to acquire strategic Mozambique graphite projects from Battery Minerals

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Tirupati Graphite plc, a fully integrated, revenue generating, specialist graphite producer and graphene and advanced materials developer ( earlier post ), is acquiring the entire issued share capital of Suni Resources SA. TGC, significantly increasing the company’s JORC Code (2012) mineral resource base.

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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. Will there be that much supply coming from other resources that are not China? China’s got an enormous resource there. The company manufactures 10,000 metric tonnes per year of purified spherical graphite for EV battery anodes. Probably not.

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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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