Resumen de Rank and file: : Assessing graphite projects on credentials

Industrial Minerals

• The project rankings could be impacted in a number of ways, including changes in political landscapes, fluctating graphite prices and exchange rates, or shortage of funding for exploration and development. In addition, an economic deposit (ore reserve) may or may not be delineated, especially when deposit dimensions, product flake size and purity, processing characteristics and logisitcs are taken into account. Furthermore, lab or pilot process test methods may not scale up to meet anticipated yields, flake size distribution or product purity.Each factor receives a maximum score of 10 points, with equal weighting given to each compiled factor. This results in a maximum score of 60 for each listed stock under consideration. Earlier stage explorers may be detrimentally impacted by some of the quantitative factors, however this partially compensates for the increased risk associated with their stage of development and illustrates the dynamics of the graphite space.

  New entrants in the rankings include IMX Resources Ltd with its Chilalo project in southern Tanzania and Graphite One Resources Inc. with its Graphite Creek project in Alaska. As mentioned above, Ontario Graphite has been excluded from formal ranking, but included in certain charts for comparison