The graphite industry is turning to Canada’s junior mining sector for spherical graphite breakthroughs after waiting nearly 20 years to commercially produce the battery grade material in the west.
The industry has been bereft of progress in producing the spherical — or potato-shaped — graphite that is becoming the crucial anode raw material for all battery technologies, including lithium-ion batteries that are used in the majority of electric vehicles.
Graphite exploration companies such as Northern Graphite have used new investment from the TSX Venture Exchange in Toronto to not only progress its Bissett Creek project in Ontario, but focus on lab-scale testing of new spherical graphite production routes.
The limitation of Northern Graphite’s new process...