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austral. AXE meldet gerade.........


Exceptional Bulk Flotation Results For Campoona Graphite


Exceptional Bulk Flotation Results For Campoona Graphite

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Korea: a rising star for graphite, rare earths, critical metals


Back between 1950 and 1990 South Korea was the world’s second largest producer of graphite, accounting for an annual output of around 77,000 tonnes of flake and amorphous graphite. Then, just after 1990, the world’s largest producer — China, of course — decided to dump cheap graphite on the world market. It wrecked many non-China mines, including South Korea’s and today (according to the U.S. Geological Survey) China produces about 800,000 tonnes a year and South Korea just 70 tonnes.

The USGS also counts North Korea as the world’s fourth largest producer at 30,000 tonnes, but most industry authorities doubt this; the north’s mines are believed to be operating well below capacity. Whatever the actual production, most of North Korea’s graphite goes to China — which, as one analyst has remarked, raises considerable doubts regarding China’s ability to ramp up its own graphite output. A story surfaced in 2007 in the newspaper Hankyoreh that North Korean graphite was being shipped to the south, a 200 tonnes consignment being loaded on a vessel at Haeju destined for Incheon. The plant was 50% owned by the south’s Korean Resources Corp.

The Korean peninsula is gradually being seen as a potential key player, not just for graphite but for critical metals and rare earths.

According to a briefing put together by an Australian company , Lamboo Resources (ASX:LMB), which has flake graphite targets in South Korea, most of the graphite produced since the Second World War went to the former colonial master, Japan, for use in the steel industry. What is surprising is that South Korea was able to be such an important producer without using any bulk mining, with most extraction being done with hand-working. All the mines closed after the Chinese dumping.

Lamboo, incidentally, argues that it has got its timing right for investing in new flake production. Apart from the range of technology developments and market growth which is propelling the graphite sector as a whole, Lamboo puts considerable emphasis on trends within the Chinese industry: declining production overall, the problems of mining in the winter (the northern graphite mines in Heilongjiang province close for several months each year) and the 20% export tariff slapped on Chinese exports. The company also cites what it describes as the declining quality of Chinese graphite, increasing mining and labour costs, tougher environmental standards; in fact, the company says that out of 72 Chinese graphite producing companies, only eight are considered major industry players with annual capacity of greater than 30,000tpa graphite.
...http://investorintel.com/rare-earth-intel/korea-a-rising-sta…

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Tritongold.

http://www.tritongold.com.au/attachments/article/44/1243804.…

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iphone 6 has a graphene display


So graphene is coming out of the research labs and into the mainstream with who else but Apple.

http://www.behance.net/gallery/iPhone-6-You-wont-believe-it-…

The iphone 6 is touted to have a graphene composite screen ( unbreakable ) and also an aluminium carbon composite case.

I have plenty of friends with cracked smartphone screens so I think we could reasonably expect graphene composite screens to eventually become industry standard.

Which leads to exactly how many smartphones are getting manufactured? 1.5 billion per annum in 2016 according to this report http://www.businessinsider.com.au/smartphone-sales-forecast-…

Whether AXE's Campoona deposit enters into this market segment or not remains to be seen...



.......int. news, die den gesamten ´graphene- sektor´ wieder verstärkt in den
fokus der investoren rücken lassen sollte.....IMO

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Zenyatta Drilling Yields More Significant Results from East Pipe and Intersects Wide Zones of Graphite Mineralization on West Pipe
http://app.quotemedia.com/quotetools/newsStoryPopup.go?story…

Quote for Zenyatta Ventures Ltd. (ZEN:CA)
$ 3,91 RT -0,19 (-4.63%) Volume: 627,02k 10:07 EDT 01.08.2013

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MPH Ventures Acquires the North Albany Graphite Property Adjacent to Zenyatta Ventures Discovery, Northern Ontario
http://app.quotemedia.com/quotetools/newsStoryPopup.go?story…

Quote for MPH Ventures Corp. (MPS:CA)
$ 0,025 RT 0,01 (+66.67%) Volume: 1,31m 09:50 EDT 01.08.2013

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Zur Info.

http://www.tritongold.com.au/attachments/article/48/1241829.…

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News von TON.

http://www.tritongold.com.au/attachments/article/44/1240868.…

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nachfolg. meldung läßt EGZ- kurs neu erwachen...........


Energizer Resources Achieves Ultra-High Purity of Greater Than 99.9% Graphitic Carbon

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - July 29, 2013) - Energizer Resources Inc. (OTCBB:ENZR)(FRANKFURT:YE5)(TSX:EGZ) ("Energizer" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has achieved greater than 99.9% graphitic carbon from a finished concentrate of the Company's flagship Molo flake graphite deposit ("the Molo") in Madagascar.

This ultra-high purity graphite concentrate of greater than 99.9% C was achieved on a first-pass, single-stage hydrometallurgical purification test at SGS Canada Inc. ("SGS"). The analysis by SGS that achieved this result comprised of an average of five repeat assays on the concentrate conducted over two days. This preliminary test was done to assess the ability to upgrade the Molo graphite to an ultra-pure concentrate. Based on these exceptional results, SGS will now begin the development of a comprehensive hydrometallurgical process flow sheet, which will be completed over the next 60 to 90 days and will be conducted in adherence to the technical guidelines of a Full Feasibility Study.

These studies are part of a series of on-going metallurgical optimization tests targeted at further enhancing both the CAPEX and OPEX numbers presented in the Company's already robust Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) Study from January 2013.

Craig Scherba, President and COO, stated, "We are delighted to have achieved an ultra-high purity of greater than 99.9% graphitic carbon on the first test. This is highly significant and reconfirms, as demonstrated from the mineralogical results in our completed PEA Study, the exceptional quality of our graphite. As outlined in our previous news releases and PEA Study, the Molo is situated in an extremely rare and unique geological setting which has resulted in our flake graphite being both very high in purity and in quality." ...........


http://web.tmxmoney.com/article.php?newsid=61683085&qm_symbo…





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........und JV- partner, die austr. MGY sollte in komm. nacht ebenfalls
davon prof. können !!!

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Initial Trenching Results Discover Graphite Vein Exceeding One Metre Width Over 7.9 Metres in Length and Total Length of 12.8 Metres on Miller Graphite Property

http://www.canadacarbon.com/newsdetail?&newsfile=ccb_2013072…

Gruß
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