·On an annual basis the Mineral Processing Plant would reduce 1 018 000 tonnes of graphite mineralization to 60 000 tonnes of graphite concentrate at 95% Cg The dried concentrate would be packaged and transported to the Port of Nome Alaska and shipped on a seasonal schedule to the Manufacturing Plant Graphite One s process
·The Coosa County plant will process raw graphite into about 7 500 metric tons of refined battery grade graphite each year for use in batteries that power EVs electronics and other products
·Northern Graphite purchased from Imerys the Lac des Iles producing graphite mine in Quebec and the Okanjande graphite deposit/Okorusu processing plant in Namibia They also own the Bissett Creek
·The Company s primary project is the Kellyton graphite processing plant that is under construction in east central Alabama In addition the Company s Coosa graphite deposit is the most advanced natural flake graphite deposit in the contiguous United States — and located across 41 900 acres 17 000 hectares in Coosa County Alabama
The pilot plant is the most advanced and largest known facility of its type in Australia and is the first stage in the company s roadmap to full scale commercial production The new downstream graphite processing facility at Collie is less than 200km from the WA capital of Perth in the centre of the growing South West industrial region
·Comprised of 42 000 acres more than 65 square miles Westwater Resources flagship Coosa Graphite Project is the most advanced graphite project in the contiguous United States of America Located in western Coosa County east central Alabama USA in the heart of the historic past producing Alabama Graphite Belt
Timeline Apr 2016 Pilot test work program initiated in China milling and purification Nov 2016 Announced strategy to establish commercial scale facility in Louisiana Aug 2018 Completed purchase of Vidalia site Jul 2020 First production of purified spherical graphite to battery specification Dec 2020 BFS confirms robust economics for large scale active
·In the natural graphite realm the supply chain begins with mining then primary processing shaping and purifying then final processing coating to supply battery and EV manufacturing