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Cook taking Collie downstream

WA government grants $8.5M for downstream graphite operations

WA premier Roger Cook announcing the $6.5M grant at International Graphite’s Collie R&D Facility. L-R: IG managing director and CEO Andrew Worland, WA regional development minister Don Punch, Collie-Preston MLA Jodie Hanns and IG chairman and founder Phil Hearse. Image by WA Government.

WA premier Roger Cook announcing the $6.5M grant at International Graphite’s Collie R&D Facility. L-R: IG managing director and CEO Andrew Worland, WA regional development minister Don Punch, Collie-Preston MLA Jodie Hanns and IG chairman and founder Phil Hearse. Photo courtesy WA Government.

Western Australia's government has awarded another $6.5 million to International Graphite for its planned 4000 tonne per annum commercial-scale graphite micronising plant near Collie. Production has...

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