Alabama Graphite Starts Rock Hardness Testing at Coosa

Alabama Graphite Corp. (TSXV:ALP,OTCQB:ABGPF) announced that it has provided SGS Canada with samples for initial Bond Work Hardness Indices testing. The samples are from the company’s Coosa project, located in Alabama.

As quoted in the press release:

Bond Work Hardness Indices are a measure of the amount of work required to reduce a rock in size, in order to liberate the individual graphite flakes. The ease or difficulty of doing this has a direct impact on the economics of a graphite mine.

The Company has provided samples of both oxidized (weathered, at surface) and unoxidized (non-weathered) material for testing.

Dr. Douglas Oliver, vice president of exploration at Alabama Graphite, commented:

Because of Alabama’s location in the southern United States, glaciers never scoured off the oxidized upper portion of the deposit as they did in Canada or Alaska. It is our expectation that the Bond Work Hardness Index for the weathered material will be substantially lower than either the deeper (unoxidized) portion of the Coosa deposit or other graphite resources in North America.

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