High Chinese demand for graphite21 Nov 2020 21:22
"China continues to ramp up natural graphite imports to meet rising domestic demand from its lithium-ion battery sector.
According to Roskill, monthly imports are now up 2000 per cent since the end of 2017, with almost all new supply coming from Mozambique and Madagascar.
Prior to the end of 2017 China imported less than 1000 tonnes a year. In May 2019 imports exceeded 22,000t.
China has significant resources of battery-grade graphite, Roskill says, but many of the deposits being exploited are getting deeper and more expensive to mine.
“Coupled with rising environmental costs and other costs of production, China is looking increasingly to foreign sources of supply, in particular, those in Africa,” Roskill says."
ACP has already got 3 MOU's from Chinese companies in place for 60k tonnes per year which is 100% of the 1st 3 years output so there is plenty of demand. Everything is now lined up. There is plenty of news due in the coming weeks. Just have a look at Walkabout Resources on ASX. They have got a graphite mine in Tanzania which also has low capex but has a much smaller resource. After they converted their MOU'S into binding offtake agreements in 2019 their mcap went up to £80M and their offtakes were only for 30k tonnes a year. Once MOU's are converted then I would expect a minimum of 15p a share.