Natural Resources committee  Thank you, everyone.

Natural Resources committee  Speaking for our own operation, our primary offtaker is in the United States, and I would estimate that this accounts for about 85% of the value. That's unprocessed material from the concentrate level, but that's not made for battery input. It's actually for an indirect steel inp

Natural Resources committee  I was going to say zero, so Simon and I are definitely in tune on this question.

Natural Resources committee  At the risk of harping on the same point, I believe there's a significant advantage for a raw materials supplier [Technical difficulty—Editor] to sell to. As a Canadian producer, logistically there's a big advantage to selling our graphite to someone in Canada or the United State

Natural Resources committee  First, to summarize the issue, we can develop the capacity to extract the minerals, as you rightly point out. At the moment, there is no further processing domestically that we can sell to, so there is no value-added processor that we could sell to. That leaves us with the choice

Natural Resources committee  No problem.

Natural Resources committee  In terms of concrete suggestions, I know it takes time to set up new programs. It even takes time to thoroughly analyze them. In the way of a specific suggestion, there is a successful framework under the METC grant program for encouraging prospecting and the actual finding of mi

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  I'm glad to add you to the list of customers who have qualified our product. With regard to the processing, there are multiple stages that China dominates. In some particular stages, in the case of graphite for battery anodes, the spheronization and purifying of the graphite pri

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for that. My thought overall is that there isn't necessarily one winning recipe, and in many cases, we can take existing programs and probably adapt them to give them a bit more focus and perhaps some more emphasis on critical mineral supply chains. It's going to take

Natural Resources committee  Do you mean for actually charging up the electric vehicles?

Natural Resources committee  Most analysis I've seen would suggest that the incremental demand to charge vehicles is not going to be an undue strain on the electrical system. The fact of the matter is, the incremental demand will occur over a very long period of time and is a relatively small fraction of the

Natural Resources committee  I'll do my best to answer coherently here. If you're referring to power for the mine sites, graphite, in particular, is no more intensive than any other mining; in fact, it's usually less intensive. Some purification methods require power. I know in the analysis for our own min

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. I deeply appreciate your inviting me to share some thoughts. When I accidentally bought a graphite mine 15 years ago, I had no idea just how lucky I was to have stumbled on our project. Here was a graphite quarry that was already built and permitted and had already pr