Industrial Minerals


INTERVIEW: A graphite junior with a different focus

11 October 2011

by Jessica Roberts

Canada’s Focus Metals aims to be the world’s lowest cost graphene source

Keywords: Focus Metals, graphite, graphene, Lac Knife, batteries, cathodes

     
     
   Graphene is said to be the strongest
material ever measured
 
     

Graphite juniors and Canada go hand-in-hand at present. The country’s list of developers includes Focus Metals, GreenLight Resources Inc., Mega Graphite, Northern Graphite, and Ontario Graphite – the latter of which recently received final funding for its reactivation project, due onstream in late 2012.

 

Focus Metals, a diversified junior with interests ranging from graphite to gold to rare earths, acquired the Fermont, Quebec-based Lac Knife graphite project in August 2010, from gold producer Iamgold for C$250,000 ($239,000).

 

Gary Economo, president and CEO, spoke to IM about the project, the competition, and why graphene is the miracle material of the near-future.

 

How did you first hear about the Lac Knife deposit?

 

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