In support of NGC & Against The seeming Idiocy of graphite13Wow! You really can spread the bullpucky that thick graphite13. LOL!
As I said and I'll reiterate once again for you and for readers that I have nothing against what Focus Graphite is attempting to do going forward. Obviously that is not the same courtesy you would choose to extend to Northern Graphite Corporation. Too bad; so sad that you can't see the forest for the trees graphite13.
You, Graphite13, stated, "NGC is not even a loser in this race; they are destined to go out of business IMO"
Likely while you were still suckling milk Imerys Graphite & Carbon stakeholders and their immensely skilled representatives invested in, undertook and paid for all the requisite work on what is known today as Lac des Illes graphite mine, doing so in order to establish North America's only remaining actual graphite mining operation.
The very fact ( and yes, I know you, graphite 13, seem to have a problem with and are seemingly allergic to speaking about actual facts) that Imerys SA stakeholders, "Sprott" stakeholders and now also Edgewater Capital Partners represented stakeholders and others collectively elected to retain a interest in or are seeking to gain a "material interest" in, respectively, the very assests and the very company which currently owns and controls Imerys's previous outright owned graphite bearing lands and related assest and also other "most advanced" graphite bearing lands projects both in Quebec and Ontario, Canada and Namibia . . .
Sufficed to say this should inform you, graphite13, and all others of just how dead serious the various stakeholders who currently control Northern Graphite Corporation are about the future for NGC and precisely what NGC and it's most technically, prorietary technologies enabled and financially relatively more "capable partners" would be clearly intending to pursue together going forward.
With all due regard for whatever professional skills you believe yourself to have and/or the current Focus Graphite C-suite representatives and company directorate members have, I am going to tell you that such a inadequate level of experience and knowledge, specifically as pertains graphite lands development and particularly graphite mines development and operation, is a representative of a immensely obstructive impediment which Focus Graphite stakeholders, shareholders and all FMS.V "interested parties" have been beset by since those graphite bearing lands were originally staked and all the as yet to be adequately proven up data had been collected and since been collected.
Jeffery York can raise money and yet Jeffery York and the rest of the gaggle of interested parties over at Focus Graphite know relatively "SFA" about actually "upgrading" any amount of c% graphite feedstock to becoming a kind, quality and quamtum of graphitic material feedstock required to be included in high quality and downstream sold graphite composite products.
Moreover, what is especially true is that Jeffery York et al can possess the skills required to raise capital from willing and perhaps not nearly as savvy as they need to be kinds of capital investors; and yet, Jeffery York and the rest of the gaggle of interested parties over at Focus Graphite know relatively "SFA" about upgrading any c% graphite feedstock into becoming a proprietary kind, quality and "quantum" of high quality, low layer and most specifically customizable "Graphene Black TM" powder product - currently 4,000 tpa process manufacturing capacity of Graphene BlackTM powder product, which can be exoanded to 8,000 tpa and 16,000 tpa manufacturing capacity at any point required.
Focus Graphite's 18% ownership exposure to that Grafoid entity is likely going to be valuated, for the foreseeable future, to be worth 0% return on investment for Focus Graphite, in terms of any expected adjusted EBITDA profit derived therefrom.
Grafoid executives will inherently seek to absolutely eat through whatever revenues such a company would ever generate in the near term or at any time in the future, as could be derived from any speculative U.S. Military contract award.
Once again, Mr. Jeffery York et al are out of their natural element when it comes to anything important to do with graphite and most specifically graphene.
These are the facts graphite13.
I haven't even bothered to begin to address how Focus graphite officers and dirtectors and some of it's largest stakeholders lack the requisite knowledge of and clearer understanding of requisite intellectual properties supporting the integrated downstream operations process manufacturing of graphite, various proprietary and "qualified" graphite composite products and graphene composite compounds and graphene composite products.
Finally, I'll address your comments with respect to NGC's Bisssett Creek properties graphite deposit.
First, you, graphite13, stated, "I am no engineer, but I do know that 2.5% Cg is not minable."
What I suggest you become is a qualified, quite reputable and immensely knowledgeable geologist or perhaps alternatively, a advanced materials (e.g. graphene) scientist.
To begin with, I would simply refer you to Mr. Gregory Bowes over at Northern Graphite Corporation, so he can explain for you what already long confirmed larger flake grapite found throughout the entire Bissett Creek graphite bearing lands deposit is actually more worth when utilized in certain most specific battery materials applications, amongst other applications like Hydrogen fuel cells components process manufacturing.
The highest graphitic carbon percentage is not the holy grail and if need be we can utilize relatively cheap synthetic sources of high purity graphite materials in certain aplications.
However, a higher percentage of larger mesh size graphitic material is most easily upgraded and necessary for most specific graphite aplications, battery materials, etc.
You, graphite13, should seriously consider changing your name to something else - perhaps something like Mr. Jeffery York or FarmBoy - nothing aginst farm boys.
After all, you seem to know absolutely little about graphite and extremely much less about anything to do with graphene.