Synthetic Market 6x Natural “the graphite required to achieve the high technological goals must present very high purity. So far, high purity (+99% purity or higher) applications resort to using synthetic graphite, the market for which is over six times larger than natural graphite. However, synthetic graphite is very expensive to produce, deriving from petroleum coke and costing up to 10 times as much as the best natural graphite.”
Exception
“Mother Nature can sometimes be very cooperative; the Zenyatta owned Albany property has so far yielded vein or Sri Lankan type graphite…” Full Story
https://proedgewire.com/graphite-graphene-intel/zenyattas-vein-graphite-challenges-synthetic-graphite-on-purity-and-production-costs/
Cheers, Mark