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Welcome to Graphite Corp and a new chapter in America’s resource mining sector and the latest strategic opportunity driven by new advances in industrial technologies. Graphite, long considered a lesser cousin to its more exciting mineral cousin, the diamond, this carbon based resource is finally coming into its own. The recent surge in interest and value of graphite is built on long standing and solid fundamentals as a well-established industrial mineral. Natural graphite has been mostly consumed in steel making; for refractories and foundry facings; as a lubricant and as a containment lining in nuclear applications. Other uses have included automobile brake linings and transmission components, but with the extraordinary increase in the use of lithium-Ion batteries, graphite has experienced a huge growth surge and the auto industry is sure to be at the forefront of this growth. profile-usage.jpg From cell phones, toys and power tools to the electric cars of the future, the lithium-Ion battery continues to power a revolution in electric storage and for every unit made up of lithium there is up to 20 times that amount of graphite in every battery. Graphite (carbon) fiber and carbon nanotubes are also used in carbon fiber reinforced plastics, and in heat-resistant composites such as reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC). profile-usage-2.jpg Commercial structures made from carbon fiber graphite composites include fishing rods, golf club shafts, bicycle frames, sports and race car body panels, the fuselage of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, pool cue sticks and it’s even added to reinforced concrete. The mechanical properties of carbon fiber graphite-reinforced plastic composites are strongly influenced by the role of graphite in these materials. graphene-1.jpg But perhaps even more exciting are advances in molecular engineering and the development of Graphene. Graphene is referred to as an allotrope element where the property of a certain chemical element exists in two or more different forms; Graphene is an allotrope of carbon. Its structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of bonded carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice. graphene-2.jpg Research results show that graphene combines aspects of semiconductors and could be a leading candidate to replace silicon in applications ranging from high-speed computer chips to biochemical sensors. The research, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and published online in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, shows that graphene conducts electricity at room temperature with less resistance than any other known material. This potential could spur an entire new “silicon revolution,” significantly increasing exponential demand for this increasingly valuable resource. Graphite Corp. believes in homegrown solutions... When the price of graphite started climbing and foreign sources began jockeying for position, our focus shifted to the historically productive areas of Alabama and Montana. At one time Alabama was the largest source of graphite in North America and Montana was a rising star before the industry collapsed at the end of WW II due to a glut of foreign production. Today there still lies the most significant source of the preferred and valuable flake graphite in the continental United States. Graphite Corp. has invested in properties straddling the very heart of these well documented mining regions in order to capture a leading role in the exploration and development of this increasingly important resource. We believe commercially marketable quantities of graphite deposits on our mineral claims are a feasible scenario. We aim to assess the technical and financial methods of extraction, including an evaluation of the economically recoverable portion of the deposits. This includes assessing the metallurgy and ore recoverability, marketability and pay-ability of ore concentrates; engineering concerns, milling and infrastructure costs, finance and equity requirements and an analysis of the proposed mines from initial excavation all the way through to reclamation. Upon conclusion of our analysis we intend to begin the development process as rapidly as possible. We appreciate active interest in our project and invite the public to contact us and enroll for future news updates in order to stay current with events as they transpire.

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