3.44 million market cap graphite player Big North Graphite (
TSX:V.NRT,
Stock Forum) generated big investor interest Friday when its share climbed in value 30% on the back of significant volume.
With no public news release to explain the spike, attention pushes to the company processing facility in La Colorada, Mexico, which should be just about nearing completion.
The company continues to test drill at the Nuevo San Pedro mine, and has been
selling amorphous graphite for three months now, buying product locally and processing it to ¾ minus standard as it waits for La Colorada to come online.
When operational, the facility will allow Big North to crush and size to a ¼ minus product, giving the product greater use at the client side.
Spiro Kletas, Big North President, stated in a press release, "This marks our third consecutive month of sales of amorphous graphite from our projects in Sonora, Mexico. We are pleased to have made this level of progress in such a short period. The Company will continue to focus on increasing production, enhancing processing, growing sales and securing long-term offtake partners. The completion of the processing facility will be very beneficial to Big North achieving such goals."
Big North is finding a solid niche in sourcing unprocessed product from local miners who have no ability to ship to end users, creating a middleman scenario that will add revenue going forward.
Big North also owns flake graphite concerns in Ontario and Quebec, as a 100% interest in the 145 hectare Aki Wiki play.
Shares in Big North climbed to $0.06 from $0.045 in Friday trading with 660k volume.
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