SGA to scale up its graphite processing flowsheet
Our 2022 Next Investors Small Cap Pick of the Year, Sarytogan Graphite (ASX: SGA) just hit another key milestone for its graphite project in Kazakhstan.
SGA already has:
- The highest grade resource on the ASX. In mining grade is king. Higher grades typically lead to lower costs of processing a resource into a final saleable product.
- The second largest graphite resource on the ASX in terms of contained graphite. Second only to Syrah Resources, which is capped at $477M.
- Battery grade product - A graphite resource that can be processed to a high enough purity to be sold into high value battery anode markets (99.99% purity).
SGA finally hit that all important 99.99% purity level back in August - we covered that news in the following note.
![SGA Thermal Flowsheet](https://sdcms-prod.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/SGA_Thermal_Flowsheet.width-800.png)
At the time, the results were achieved using 50g samples of SGA’s graphite.
The next stage of works is to prove that it can be done at a bulk scale.
Today SGA confirmed the precursor materials for industrial scale testing had been completed.
Now SGA is preparing to send off 3-6kg batches for scale up testing and to see how well the graphite performs in batteries.
What’s next for SGA?
![SGA Pre-feasibility study](https://sdcms-prod.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/SGA_Pre-feasibility_study.width-800.png)
Ongoing metwork 🔄
Having now surpassed 99.95% TGC purity levels, the next phase of work will be about optimising and scaling up its flowsheet.
![SGA Ongoing metwork](https://sdcms-prod.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/SGA_Ongoing_metwork.width-800.png)
Feasibility Studies 🔄
SGA confirmed today that its Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) was on track for Q3 - 2024.