Ann: Full cell Li-ion batteries produced with Campoona graphite, page-7

The difference is that you now have an academic in the field leading the research and writing the reporting. Note today's ann was written by an academic rather than a geologist.

Australia has always sold off minerals too easily, only to buy them back at inflated prices once processed and put into something else. AXE is making a pleasant change from being net supplier of raw material, to actually developing an end product. Something that many companies have missed as they quickly offload our dirt into Asia's backdoor.

While the slog is slow, and not quite to the liking of many who seek to invest in mining companies for quick projects, this is turning into quite a different story that hopefully has a happy ending based on a few patents and some offtake sales.