RE:RE:RE:RE:AllianceMaterialsMan,
The technologies certainly exist and have existed for a while to track and trace battery grade natural graphite.
In fact, when you utilized the words "chain of custody", you may as well have inadvertently alluded to what I have known for a while now, i.e. that the use of Blockchain audit ledger relating technologies has been applied to precisely the sort of chain of custody and audited and traceable authentication of battery grade natural graphite, from the mine to graphite processing and ultimately finished and delivered battery grade graphite materials,
The key in deploying and having all critical elements miners/processors and would be battery materials manufacturers buying into said voluntary trace and track Blockchain based audit ledger relating technologies is carbon credits; specifically, the advanced graphite derived battery materials process manufacturing technologies which allow chosen companies to immensely reduce the CO2 output when process manufacturing anode, electrolyte and cathode component materials.
Should the carbon credits derived from such advanced process manufacturing technologies implementation generate so much revenue and be so profitable that a given company could greatly offset the "all in sustaining costs to production" of such graphite derived battery materials production, there would be "a buy in" to such a voluntary trace and track Blockchain based audit ledger relating technologies by and on behalf of all actually downstream "BAM" manufacturing operations integrated miners.
Obviously, Northern Graphite is not one of the companies in any real way considered a downstream "BAM" manufacturing operations integrated miner; ergo, what I have mentioned would not apply to NGC.