Talga Resources Limited announced the successful completion of a 60 tonne pilot-scale processing program producing graphite concentrate - the feedstock for Talga's planned European battery anode refinery and ongoing customer development programs. The pilot processing program employed continuous test conditions for numerous key processing stages including crushing, grinding, flotation and concentration using advanced, industrial scale equipment at a Scandinavian toll milling and testing facility. The program achieved the Company's targeted range of operational and product performance, in line with PFS assumptions, and demonstrated suitability of the process flowsheet for planned commercial production. In addition to further validating the first step of Talga's processing flowsheet for its battery anode production, the pilot program generated information and samples for final detailed engineering design for ongoing DFS work and customer programs. The process development and refinements of pilot-scale testing highlight the effectiveness of Talga's preferred production process which uses large-scale European developed quality industrial equipment. Talga's patent pending purification processes will be used in the downstream refining of the Vittangi graphite concentrate into the Company's Talnode®-C anode product for use by Lithium-ion battery makers. Pilot ore test program details; The pilot ore processing program was based around Talga's unique and effective production flowsheet developed over several years from a comprehensive range of pilot and laboratory metallurgical programs. These development programs have translated into a successful Scandinavian production schedule incorporating a 300 kg/hr pilot processing circuit, operating 24 hours per day continuously over 7 days at the facility, with a focus on developing and optimising the ore processing flowsheet. The pilot operation included commissioning and process optimisation phases run over 15 days and testing the following key unit operations - crushing, milling, roughing, regrinding, cleaning, tailings dewatering and concentrate filtration. Key areas of the process were tested under locked-cycle conditions simulating commercial plant operation with recycle of process streams allowing further investigation and optimisation of the process conditions, circuit configurations and operational practice. Vital data was obtained, and targeted recoveries and product quality achieved while exploring a range of primary grinding settings, float cells residence times, regrinding energy and equipment configuration, tailings dewatering and concentrate filtration. The results and samples from the pilot plant production will form the basis of core information in developing the graphite ore tolling process for near term ramp-up of customer sample production and guide the choice of process plant equipment for the full scale battery anode operation.