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Graphite One Appoints Mr. James Currie to Board of Directors
(via Thenewswire.ca) November 4, 2013 - Calgary, Alberta - Graphite One Resources Inc. (...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Graphite One Appoints Mr. James Currie to Board of Directors(via Thenewswire.ca)\n \n \nNovember 4, 2013 - Calgary, Alberta - Graphite One Resources Inc. (GPH: TSX-V, GPHOF: OTCQX) (\"Graphite One\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce it has appointed Mr. James Currie to the Board of Directors effectively immediately. \n\n \n \nMr. Currie is a mining engineer with over 34 years of experience in the mining industry, having worked on projects in many countries around the world. His experience encompasses exploration, feasibility studies, construction and operation of mining projects. Over his career Mr. Currie has worked for Placer Development (now Barrick Gold), Noranda, First Quantum Minerals and New Gold, amongst others. At New Gold where he was COO, he oversaw the development of the New Afton Mine, which is the key producing asset in New Gold's portfolio. Mr. Currie has a Bachelor of Science in Mining from Queen's University, and has been a Professional Engineer since 1982.\n\n\n \nMr. Anthony Huston states, \"We are pleased that an individual with Mr. Currie's experience recognizes the value of the Graphite Creek asset and the potential of developing USA's only large flake high grade graphite deposit. We intend to be one of the lowest cost producer and supplier of graphite into the United States.\" \n\n\n \nAbout Graphite Creek\n\n\n \nThe Graphite Creek Property comprises 129 claims totaling 6,799 hectares on the Seward Peninsula of Alaska, 65 kilometres north of a deep sea port at Nome. The Property is only 18km from a seasonal road and approximately 30 kilometers from a newly proposed deep sea port west of Teller (Port Clarence), which could be accessible by either land or water. Typically, graphite ore is processed into a size-sorted rough concentrate on site using a crushing, grinding, floatation and sieving circuit. Product is transported to end users as palletized material in either 20kg bags or in bulk. \n\n\n \nMineralization at the Graphite Creek Property is characterized by coarse crystalline (large flake) graphite (greater than 80 mesh) within graphite-bearing schist(s). Graphite mineralization is exposed at surface. The large flake graphite occurs as disseminations and high grade segregations and lenses in distinctive sillimanite-garnet-quartz-biotite schist(s) and/or quartz-biotite schist(s). The host sch...