INDUSTRIAL MINERALS

Rare graphite excites

TEST work on purified natural crystalline flake graphite material from the McIntosh project in Western Australia shows the graphite has a unique, near all-hexagonal preferred crystal orientation with superior crystallinity that sets it apart from other natural graphite.

Karma Barndon
The McIntosh site in WA.

The McIntosh site in WA.

The tests were done at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, which is run by the US Department of Energy. ANL conducted an atomic scale examination of the McIntosh material using a dedicated synchrotron...

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