Industrial Minerals


IM Global Graphite Roundup: 04 May - 10 May

10 May 2012

by John Ollett

A brief look at the rest of the week’s graphite stories in the news

Keywords: graphite, Focus Metals, Simon Moores, Castle Minerals, Kibaran Nickel, Standard Graphite

Focus Metals Inc. will develop a graphite purification facility and a graphite anode production facility for lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries in conjunction with Hydro-Quebec research institute IREQ.

Focus Metals will purify graphite from its Lac Knife project, in Canada, to 99.95% C. It will then use the graphite to produce anodes using technology supplied by IREQ.

The new purification and production facilities will be built in Quebec and will be...