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Graphite One Presents at Invitation‐Only Washington, D.C. Minerals Summit
“Benchmark Minerals Summit 2019” Brings Together U.S. Government Officials and EV Battery Materials Producers Graphite One Is Only Graphite Company at the Washi
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[{"type":"text","content":" “Benchmark Minerals Summit 2019” Brings Together U.S. Government Officials and EV Battery Materials Producers Graphite One Is Only Graphite Company at the Washington, D.C. Summit VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 02, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Graphite One Inc. (GPH: TSX-V; GPHOF: OTCQB) (“Graphite One” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that Anthony Huston, CEO of Graphite One presented at the Benchmark Minerals Summit 2019, in Washington, D.C. Mr. Huston was the only CEO of a graphite developing company to present at this invitation-only session in which he highlighted the Company’s graphite project and manufacturing technology applications for the mineral. The meetings, convened by the UK analytical firm, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, brought together key players in the electric vehicle (“EV”) battery world with leaders from Capitol Hill and U.S. Government executive branch officials. In an op-ed published in The Economic Standard as the summit commenced, Mr. Huston said, “After years of government studies raising alarm bells about America’s deep metals dependencies, the D.C. meeting is an opportunity to see how the public sector and private industry can pull in the same direction to encourage U.S. production of the metals and minerals essential to our high-tech future.” According to Benchmark, the Summit - titled the Energy-Storage Revolution: Securing U.S. Supply Chains - was described as “a private, invitation-only summit tasked with the sole purpose of advancing U.S. interests in the supply chain for electric vehicles and energy-storage industries. The private summit is designed to engage U.S.-government participants including U.S. Senators and Representatives, and U.S. government agencies, with industry and developers of U.S.-based, critical raw-material assets for electric-vehicle and energy-storage battery applications - lithium, graphite, cobalt and nickel.” In his op-ed, Mr. Huston noted, “With zero U.S. production, there’s clearly room for new U.S. supply from companies like mine, developing the largest known American graphite resource, located in Alaska. The need could hardly be greater…. We’ve all heard about Tesla’s GigaFactory in Nevada, production hub for the company’s EV batteries. Lithium analysts predict that EV demand will require the equivalent of 35 GigaFact...