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Gold/Mining/Energy : Zentek Ltd - ZEN -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rocket Red who wrote (2705)	8/28/2013 1:57:24 PM
From: hwy144	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22857

From the website What makes Zenyatta so different ? Zenyatta’s graphite consists of carbon derived from the earth’s upper mantle, and NOT carbon derived from organic material (as are most of all other graphite deposits). This is a critical distinction that makes Zenyatta unique and extremely rare. Since Zenyatta’s graphite is hydrothermal (or volcanic) in origin, the natural graphite crystals have virtually no impurities. It is easy and inexpensive to upgrade using a dilute NaOH/H2O solution to achieve an ultra-high purity of 99.99% graphitic carbon. This means that when graphite crystals are separated from the host rock, the graphite product is very high quality. This can be accomplished without the need to use aggressive acids or high temperature thermal processing to remove impurities. Having ultra-high purity graphite means that Zenyatta’s graphite can compete in the synthetic high purity graphite market, which is a multi-billion dollar global market. Organic derived graphite (flake and amorphous) cannot typically achieve high purity (>99.9% graphite) unless expensive hydrometallurgical processes (acid and/or very high temperatures) are applied. Even when high purity is achieved, hydrometallurgical processing can lower the physical characteristics of the product and therefore performance.