Next Graphite, Inc. Delivers 1,000kg Lower Adit Sample for Testing, Processing and Customer Review

Next Graphite, Inc. (OTC:GPNE) announced the most recent round of testing and grading have been funded by the Company’s joint venture with Caribou King Resources, Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: CKR).
As quoted in the press release:

The test samples were taken as part of a 25 MT bulk sampling program from the lower adit at the Company’s Aukam project. These samples are believed to be representative of the product found throughout the underground adit. Samples will be delivered to Lilhof Enterprises (“Lilhof”), formerly Gecko Laboratories of Swakopmund, Namibia, for testing and grading. The specific methods used by Lilhof to test the samples include:
– Crushing and grinding to 218 Microns
– Dual Flotation
– Drying and particle size analysis
The lab will prepare 80 kilograms of processed graphite which Next Graphite and Caribou King Resources will distribute to customers for their testing of the graphitic product and validation for use in their manufacturing applications. Results from this customer review process are expected to provide details of additional processing required, if any, specific to their manufacturing requirements. Additional tests will also be conducted on 84 sub-samples to provide an accurate assessment of the purity and grade of graphite from the lower adit, one of three existing adits, on Next Graphite’s Aukam property. The property’s adits were mined periodically between 1940 and 1974 and produced a recorded total of 26,740 tonnes of lump graphite. The high-quality, vein-type graphite (also known as lump graphite) is hosted within a shear zone in which underground mine workings show well-mineralized structures that are believed to continue down-dip.

Next Graphite, Inc. CEO, Cliff Bream, stated:

Our JV with Caribou King Resources is providing us the expertise, capital and future customer relationships needed to commercialize our assets, while we continue our plans to process our on-site 140,000 MT heaps, we are also validating areas on our property that can provide a steady flow of graphite rich rock to continually service demand for vein, lump graphite, the highest standard of natural graphite available to manufacturers.”

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