Westwater Resources to Present at Benchmark Mineral Intelligences Graphite + Anodes 2018 Conference 8:00 AM ET 10/10/18 | BusinessWire
CENTENNIAL, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--October 10, 2018--
Westwater Resources, Inc. ("Westwater" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: WWR) is pleased to announce that President and Chief Executive Officer, Christopher M. Jones will be presenting at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence's 'Graphite + Anodes 2018' Conference, on October 22nd and 23rd in Newport Beach, California. Mr. Jones is scheduled to present at noon on Tuesday, October 23(rd) and will provide a Company overview and an update on Westwater's graphite business.
"We are pleased to share our made-in-USA battery-graphite story at Benchmark's annual conference," commented Mr. Jones. "In our opinion, the demand for natural battery graphite and high-performance conductivity-enhancement products is growing and outpacing production capacity, which underscores the importance of this conference and Westwater's role in the American battery-graphite supply chain."
Westwater's portfolio of energy materials--graphite, lithium, and uranium--are on the List of Critical Minerals, which was finalized and published in May 2018 by the U.S. Department of the Interior. These minerals were included due to their importance to the security and economic prosperity of the United States.
Westwater is working to develop a domestic battery-graphite business, as well as to explore for lithium in the western United States. Westwater also holds a portfolio of uranium production and exploration properties in Texas and New Mexico.
About Westwater Resources, Inc.
Westwater is focused on developing energy-related materials. The Company's battery-materials projects include the Coosa Graphite Project -- the most advanced natural flake graphite project in the contiguous United States -- and the associated Coosa Graphite Mine located across 41,900 acres (17,000 hectares) in east-central Alabama. In addition, the Company maintains lithium mineral properties in three prospective lithium brine basins in Nevada and Utah. Westwater's uranium projects are located in Texas and New Mexico. In Texas, the Company has two licensed and currently idled uranium processing facilities and approximately 11,000 acres (4,400 hectares) of prospective in-situ recovery uranium projects. In New Mexico, the Company controls mineral rights encompassing approximately 188,700 acres (76,000 hectares) in the prolific Grants Mineral Belt, which is one of the largest concentrations of sandstone-hosted uranium deposits in the world. Incorporated in 1977 as Uranium Resources, Inc., Westwater also owns an extensive uranium information database of historic drill hole logs, assay certificates, maps and technical reports for the western United States. For more information visit www.westwaterresources.net.
About Benchmark Mineral Intelligence Limited
Benchmark is an independent price assessment and consultancy company, specializing in the lithium-ion ("Li-ion") battery supply chain. Benchmark is regarded as the most trusted source of information for the Li-ion battery industry, offering information pertaining to market pricing, supply and demand data, expert analysis and specialized forecasting of supply, demand and pricing. Graphite, lithium, cobalt, and nickel are the critical raw materials used in today's battery technologies.
Benchmark collects first-hand data from the major players in these industries with a goal to setting market prices and analyzing the constantly changing supply and demand dynamics. Benchmark is contracted to provide reference pricing for Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters.
