RE:Shortages-Lithium vs Graphite-A Case for GraphiteNice plug for Northern....no mention of Focus. Did you read the entire article?
There are three other junior graphite companies I am following.
Northern Graphite's (NGPHF) Recent Price $0.23
Shares Outstanding 51.3 million
Northern is also working with Dr. Edward Buiel of Coulometrics, LLC. and has also demonstrated their graphite is excellent for batteries They have a proprietary coating process. Coating is one of the steps in upgrading graphite mine concentrate to spherical graphite, SPG the anode material.
Northern needs offtake agreements and financing to get their Bisset Creek in production.
Mason Graphite (MGPHF) - Recent Price $1.08
Shares outstanding 139.8 million
Mason has a feasibility for their Lac Gueret project in Quebec and they require more permitting work, off take agreements and mine financing.
Mason has done the best by far. The stock price has more than tripled this year and they just closed a C$28.7 million bought deal financing at C$1.10 per share.
With this recent financing, approximately $17 million for development expenses related to the company's Lac Gueret graphite project and concentrator plant project, the majority of which the company expects to incur over the next 12 months (or approximately $21 million if the overallotment option is exercised in full); these development expenses represent a portion of the project's estimated $165.9-million capital expenditure budget.
Energizer Resources (ENZR) - Recent Price $0.055
Shares outstanding 461 million
Energized closed a non-brokered private-placement offering of 96,064,286 common shares at a price of seven cents per share for aggregate gross proceeds of $6,724,500. Interesting is they attracted the likes of funds - Dundee and Sprott into this financing.
Their Molo Flake graphite deposit in Madagascar is advanced with a Feasibility Study, Environmental permit and mine permitting has started. Capex is $188 M that includes a $24 M contingency. They require offtakes and mine financing.
There is a lot of shares out for a junior company at about 461 million with recent financing and that was my biggest concern. A poor chance of getting mine financing. With Dundee and Sprott now investing I would have to say that they must see a road to mine financing ahead.
Summary
Elcora, Northern, Mason and Energizer trade thinly on the OTC, most trading occurs in Canada on the TSXV. The fact Mason just completed a bought deal financing and Energizer has attracted funding from two of the major resource funds in Canada is a sign to me that money has started to come back into the sector.