Industrial Minerals


“Build it and they will come” – Northern Graphite

09 December 2011

by Jack Elliott

Graphite ’11: CEO lauds flake potential, quiet on synthetic and amorphous

Keywords: Northern Graphite, Graphexel, graphite, batteries, refractories

Northern Graphite CEO Greg Bowes cited a “Field of Dreams” scenario for flake graphite deposits, suggesting that if new operations are built, people will purchase the material.

Speaking at IM’s graphite conference in London this week, Bowes suggested that a boom in the lithium-ion battery market will drive significant demand for flake graphite, and that new operations will need to be developed to meet it.

“It’s...