The grant will be used to finance a geometallurgical study of the Company's Manicouagan-Ouest Graphitic Corridor ('MOGC') graphite deposit at its Lac Tetepisca project. The Lac Tetepisca project is located in the southwest
The grant award is part of the MERN's program to support mineral exploration for minerals needed for green and renewable energy technologies as outlined in its 2020-2025 Plan for the Development of Critical and
'We are delighted to receive the financial support of the Quebec Government as we endeavour to advance our MOGC graphite deposit to the next stage of the mineral resource appraisal process, 'said
The funding will be used to conduct a series of mineralogical, metallurgical, and geoenvironmental tests, the results of which will be integrated with geological, geochemical, and geostatistical information to create a spatially based predictive model of the MOGC deposit. Potential applications of the predictive model include mapping the in-situ distribution of flake sizes and flake value; mapping the distribution of potentially acid generating (PAG) sulphide minerals and identifying metallurgical processing attributes that will affect the purity of the graphite concentrates along with the recovery of value-added coarse (+48 mesh) flake.
'By developing the geometallurgical model, we hope to advance our understanding of our MOGC graphite deposit and determine what it will take to develop it as a source of high-quality high purity flake graphite materials to supply the expanding electric vehicle (EV) battery market, as well as other applications for which graphite concentrates of the highest quality are required,' added
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