" Graphite Skiers " you said
All or most of the future Graphite demand growth is going to come from Fine Flakes and not Jumbo and Large flakes. (I know not all investors believe this and this is one major issue the graphite industry has today. Graphite investors do not really understand well or think about what will happen if there is a major surplus of supply to Jumbo and large flakes)
@Graphite interesting view , like to ask ....
are you referring to fine flakes direct from the ground eg. poorly heated ground where the bigger percentage of graphite is small flakes or amorphous G./ carbon type players ?
or are you referring to jumbo flakes 99% pure from the better cooked ground , eg. KNL 1,300c. being smashed to fines ?
or are you are you referring to highest grade of graphite, high temp. 3,500c.average 99.9% pure Sri Lankan Lump Graphite ?
and SL displays the highest level purity , confirmed by eg. PSD /XRD and conductivity readings and Raman analysis ?
@Jaded great post
, reminds me of AXE when they bought Campoona or was it Sugar , the rock and tenement they bought of Peter meeres, can't think of the company they bought it of but the rock sample never matched the findings in the ground . anyway not following the african SPits much , i follow Quality and high temp. created G.
what defines quality ? , Andrew Geim and Konstantin Novoselov discovered and defined quality by cleaning a lump of Vein Graphite and discovered the best graphene ever .
a squadron of research and universities followed the nobel price winners .
Ask yourself , what kind of graphite would researchers use to further study this natural material .
would they have started with Flake graphite from Alibaba the dragon
Or would they have started with Vein Graphite like Andrew and Konstantin
and make their own discoveries , the Patent spike tells the story .
@tickle great post mate , like the other one , you put on MRF in reply to
@Jaded
@Pauldola i think you are getting the heat quality issue but for the moment you are protecting your UK coop .
and thats fine .
@Tangible i am predicting spherical graphite as we know it , coated ( for it's many reasons ) is the next dinosaur going extinct .
the new way is . Less graphite of higher purity even though it's more expansive in the beginning outperforms spherical
and at a price thats under $100pkwh.
@shibumi small flakes or fine = very low conductivity , not much good due to inconsistency in the hexagonal structure .
learn more here if you want .
http://www.entegris.com/resources/assets/6205-7329-0513.pdf
