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Green Battery Minerals Strengthen ESG Credentials Through Successful Air Separation Test of its Graphite
(TheNewswire) Solventless Process, Yields Graphite Grades of up to 93%, Utilizing Volt Carb...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Green Battery Minerals Strengthen ESG Credentials Through Successful Air Separation Test of its Graphite\n \n \n (TheNewswire)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Solventless Process, Yields Graphite\nGrades of up to 93%, Utilizing Volt Carbon Technologies’ Proprietary\nProcess\n \n \n \n \n VANCOUVER, BRITISH\nCOLUMBIA\n \n \n –\n \n \n TheNewswire -\n \n \n Vancouver, British Columbia, | May\n16\n \n \n th\n \n \n , 2023 – Green Battery Minerals Inc. (the\n\"Company\")\n \n \n (TSXV:GEM\n \n \n )\n \n \n (\n \n \n FSE:BK2P\n \n \n )\n \n \n (\n \n \n WKN:A2QENP\n \n \n )\n \n \n (\n \n \n OTC:GBMIF)\n \n \n is pleased to\n \n \n announce it has completed a new purification test with Volt\nCarbon Technologies (“VCT”) (TSXV: VCT).\n \n \n \n \n One of our goals is to continue to make graphene from\nour large to jumbo flake graphite.  This process brings us one step\ncloser, and significantly greener.\n \n \n \n \n Current purification of battery-grade anode material\nrequires large quantities of reagents such as sodium hydroxide and\nhydrofluoric acid, as well as significant amounts of water, which\nconsequently will be contaminated and needs to be treated before\nreentering the environment. The new process utilizes air as its\nseparation medium, thereby omitting the use of solvents and does not\nproduce contaminated liquid waste.\n \n \n \n \n The\n \n \n p\n \n \n reliminary results of the graphite ore processing test using\nVCT’s dry separation Technologies  yielded graphite grades  to\n93%, based on Thermogravimetric Analysis provided by VCT’s\nlaboratory in Guelph, Ontario.\n \n \n \n \n High-Grade Large and Jumbo Flake\nGraphite Produced\n \n \n \n \n The test was run utilizing 5 kg of crushed feedstock\nsample from the Company’s Berkwood property. The final results\nyielded 146 grams of graphite flake per kilogram of crushed feedstock,\nreflecting a of 14.6% yield of graphite flakes per kg of\nfeedstock.\n \n \n \n \n Importantly, the resulting flake size distribution (see\nFigure 1 below) showed that the majority of the Berkwood graphite\nproduces large and jumbo sized flakes, ideal for the production of\nanode material for lithium-ion batteries (“LiBs”). 
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