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Sends western Alaska graphitic carbon for battery of tests North of 60 Mining News – May 17, 2019
Core from drilling through the high-grade graphitic carbon lenses at Graphite Creek. Graphite One is shipping roughly 12,000 pounds of material sampled from the surface to an undisclosed partner for pilot-scale testing.
It is somewhat ironic that the lithium-ion batteries that power the growing number of zero emissions electric vehicles traveling global highways are driving the need for carbon – graphitic carbon to be exact.
Despite lithium's top billing, lithium-ion batteries require roughly eight times more graphite.
Graphite Creek in western Alaska hosts huge stores of graphitic carbon and Graphite One Inc., t...
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