World Class DepositFrom the CCB website accessible through the SH profile:
MILLER LOGISTICAL BENEFITS
- Highway 50 is 4 km from the property and a rail line is 500 meters south of the highway
- River water can be accessed 250 metres north of the property
- Private land reduces timely administrative processes needed to obtain government authorization for trenching, tree cutting and drilling
- Mobilization time and costs are greatly reduced due to close proximity of local expertise
MILLER PURIFICATION & CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION TESTS (CONDUCTED BY SGS CANADA INC.):
- Milling & Flotation (+48 mesh flotation concentrate assayed 99.1% Cg (100% C)
- Alkaline Roast (Increased purity from: 93.5% Cg (94.4% C) to 99.1% Cg (100% C)
- Acid Leach (Increased purity from: 99.1% Cg (100% C) to 100% Cg (100%C)
- Loss on Ignition (LOI tests resulted in 100% loss – Zero ash residue)
- Glow Discharge Mass Spectrometer (GDMS)(Evan Analytical, NY – Nuclear Grade)
- Rapid Thermal Treatment in an inert atmosphere (Resulted in a 99.9978% purity)
Results from extensive surface sampling identified lump graphite with head grades as high as 80.1% Cg that proved easily upgradable through a simple floatation and leach process to 99.1% Cg and 100% C with further upgrading using an Alkaline Roast and Acid Leach, the Miller graphite returned an extraordinary 100% Cg and 100% C.
MILLER HISTORY
The quantity of historically produced graphite is unknown but it is reported that 25 rail cars of lump graphite were shipped from this deposit in the year 1900 and sent to the Globe Refining Company of Jersey City, N.J. This yielded thirty-two tons of clean crucible graphite. The Morgan Crucible Company of London and also J.H. Gauthier and Company, Jersey City, used some of this graphite in their crucibles and pronounced it equal to the best graphite known to come from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
The Miller graphite property was previously known as the "Grenville" graphite deposit. The following newspaper article from the Pittsburgh Press dated April 5, 1903 illustrates that the lump/vein graphite from the Grenville deposit was considered equal to that of Sri Lanka.
"Graphite from the Grenville deposit was forwarded to the Paris Exposition and to the Glasgow Exposition with the Canadian exhibits. It was promptly awarded the FIRST PRIZE."
"The medal awarded by the Paris Exposition is now on exhibition at the Company's office in New York, together with the certificate of award from the Glasgow Exposition. The Imperial Institute in London requested, through the Canadian Department of Colonization and Mines, at Quebec, that these exhibits of Grenville graphite be deposited permanently with it. This request was granted, and the graphite from the mines of the Grenville Graphite Company, now present in the Imperial Institute at London, has caused many inquiries from Europe to be forwarded to this Company. The quality of the product of the Grenville Mine is unquestioned. It fully equals the Ceylon graphite."