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21/04/19

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Originally posted by oznt ↑

What is interesting is that they mention IMERYS graphite mine in Namibia BUT they DONT MENTION that she has now been under care and maintenance since NOV 2ND 2018. (6 months ago)

Their quarterly reports well before were indicating problems with ramping up into production.

They couldnt keep up production during ramp up phase and with softening of the battery grade prices at the time Imerys decided to cease operations as costing them more to produce than they could sell it for.

The $50M USD Imerys Graphite Mine in Namibia was only trying to achieve 20K TPA and simply could not do it economically and this should be a WARNING to graphite investors.

These are the VERY REAL RISKS associated with HIGH CAPEX - LOW GRADE graphite projects that the other Graphite Players do not wish to ever talk about.

The Imerys mine in Canada is almost depleted and I am very well aware that Nouveau Monde Graphite (graphite player with a mine in Quebec Canada) has basically poached all their key staff.

02 Nov 2018
https://www.indmin.com/Article/3842224/Imerys-closes-unprofitable-graphite-mine-in-Namibia.html

WKT is a much safer de-risked project with her LOW CAPEX - HIGH GRADES and PREMIUM $$$ Expandable Market Products that are worth well more than the lowest value battery grades.

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Hi oznt up to 66% or two thirds of yield can be lost in the process to develop battery grade material. Not only is there a higher risk level the margins are small. Huge capex is required in cost of plant where to run higher thru puts with out redundancy being built in to your project enters a death spiral...

Interesting comments from Mike Elliott just recently...While 100% of sales is expected just realisation of just 49.7% production in jumbo and or super jumbo...

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