RE:RE:RE:RE: Think my DD is not so crazy as if someone claimed ?Geeraf did pick up on a major error of mine in that flake waste up to 70% of their feed for chasing spherical, not for chasing purity. Not sure how I mixed that up except that I wrote it late and after a few drinks lol.
However, Geeraf confuses the simplest and most important concept of grade vs purity. Flake deposits are sedimentary and as such have many impurities mixed in. These impurities are imbedded in the graphite and are very difficult to remove. This is why ultra high purity flake graphite is still not commercially available anywhere in the world at this time. We have had NGC and EGZ announce getting high purity results but they are doing so on a bench scale using expensive acid leaching and thermal treatments. The great thing with ZEN and CCB is that they have hydrothermal graphite where mother earth has done all the hard work of removing the impurities embedded in the graphite. All we need to do is separate the graphite from the host rock and we have a very pure product with very little cost and no environmental challenges.
What I find most funny about Geeraf is he is knocking ZEN without understanding what he is talking about and that he fails to recognize that if ZEN has great success, CCB as the only other hydrothermal deposit being developed will benefit from this. If he really cared about CCB, he should be trying to tie CCB to ZEN and hope ZEN keeps screaming up in share price.
Respectfully,
Glorieux