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Monday, 09/19/2016 10:32:22 PM

Monday, September 19, 2016 10:32:22 PM

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I found this graphite company in Alabama of all places. (ABGPF)

Apparently they're going after the Chinese monopoly on Coated-Spherical-Purified-Graphite (CSPR). They've developed a Spheronization process for creating spherical graphite from their own mine without using hydrofluoric, hydrochloric, sulfuric or nitric acids.
They've also developed a proprietary specialty manufacturing process for surface coating the graphite. Which means they can now produce their own batteries without Chinese graphite.

They're claiming the largest Graphite Mineral Resource in the USA. Mineral leases cover 43,000 acres on Private land.

Anyway there are a bunch of points in this presentation worth looking at:
http://alabamagraphite.com/wp-content/uploads/AGC-Corporate-Presentation-ABRIDGED-160611.pdf

The 85 kWhr battery in the Tesla model S would then require an estimated 700lbs of Coated Spherical Graphite and 34 lbs of Lithium. One of these is a bigger problem than the other... lol

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