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To: I_C_Deadpeople who wrote (11014)	1/15/2017 12:03:59 PM
From: ValuHunter	10 Recommendations Recommended By Bills16 Canseco cbs12311 Glorieux Heres30 and 5 more members Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54751

Good post ICD. I concur on the $20/kg cost to convert our graphite to graphene. I believe it was Musky who was first to post that figure. Musky said our projected costs are $0.02 per gram, which is the same as $20/kg or $20,000 per ton. From what I was told $20/kg is cheap compared to other graphite producers that have been tested including synthetics. It costs $2k from ore to ultra high purity graphite. Conversion to graphene then costs another $20k we get a cost from Ore to Graphene of about $22k/ton. Zen's total deposit is about 1.4m tons of high purity graphite. With only 1kg of graphene used per ton of concrete the Market opportunity of ~1Billion tonne high-performance concrete @ 0.15wt% graphene = 1.5M tonne graphite per year. So basically the whole Albany deposit of 1.4m tons could be used in one year by the high performance concrete applications. If Larisplast got 10% of the high performance market its still 150k tons of graphene. The short story is that if the pilot test is successful then the demand from the concrete industry alone will be more than we could hope for.