Just rereading some materials on the graphite needed for Tesla and other battery users.

http://www.techmetalsresearch.com/2014/03/going-natural-the-solution-to-teslas-graphite-problem/

One of the technical slides that got deleted from ZEN's corporate presentation contained info on ZEN's graphite particle size etc. I have copied it below. If you reread the article above you will see that ZEN's particle size (volumetric mean of 18) is almost exactly in the middle of the suggested size from 10-30 microns needed for batteries. Now flake graphite has to be processed to get this size but ZEN's does not. So flake producers first must have large flakes to work with and most of thier material will not be large flake, then they must process it to get the 10-30 micron material, losing apparently up to 70% in the process.

So the key to ZEN is that they can easily make 99.99% pure material, don't need to process it and can do it without acids as the Chinese producers do.

This in my opinion will make the production incredibly cheap for ZEN or its buyout partner and will likely produce better material than flake graphite producers can with no appreciable material loss during processing.

We need to keep all this in mind that ZEN has basically synthetic grade material, with no processing, neither synthetic producers nor flake proccessors have that. ZEN Albany deposit will produce superior product IMHO to either the needle coke synthetic producers or the natural flake producers at a fraction of the cost.

Hang in there gang ZEN will go well past $10 and who knows maybe LT is right we don't even get to the PEA before someone has it all figured out and makes a juciy offer. Nite all TP.

Zenyatta Graphite: Summary of Properties

As Produced Basis –Initial Lab Sample