Graphite One Presents at Invitation‐only Washington, D.c. Minerals Summit “Benchmark Minerals Summit 2019” Brings Together U.s. Government Officials and Ev Battery Materials Producers Graphite One is Only Graphite Company at the Washington, D.c. Summit
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GRAPHITE ONE PRESENTS AT INVITATION‐ONLY
WASHINGTON, D.C. MINERALS SUMMIT
“BENCHMARK MINERALS SUMMIT 2019” BRINGS TOGETHER U.S. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
AND EV BATTERY MATERIALS PRODUCERS
GRAPHITE ONE IS ONLY GRAPHITE COMPANY AT THE WASHINGTON, D.C. SUMMIT
May 2, 2019 ‐‐ Vancouver, British Columbia – Graphite One Inc. (GPH: TSX‐V; GP HOF: OTCQB)
(“Graphite One” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that Anthony Huston, CEO of
Graphite One presented at the Benchmark Minerals Summit 2019, in Washington, D.C. Mr.
H u s t o n w a s t h e o n l y C EO o f a g r a p h i t e d e v e l o p i n g c o m p a n y t o p r esent at this invitation‐only
session in which he highlighted the Company’s graphite project and manufacturing technology
a p p l i c a t i o n s f o r t h e m i n e r a l . T h e m e e t i n g s , c o n v e n e d b y t h e U K analytical firm, Benchmark
Mineral Intelligence, brought together key players in the electric vehicle (“EV”) battery world
with leaders from Capitol Hill and U.S. Government executive branch officials.
In an oped published in The Economic Standard as the summit com menced, Mr. Huston said,
“ A f t e r y e a r s o f g o v e r n m e n t s t u d i e s r a i s i n g a l a r m b e l l s a b o u t A merica’s deep metals
dependencies, the D.C. meeting is an opportunity to see how the public sector and private
industry can pull in the same dire ction to encourage U.S. production of the metals and minerals
essential to our high‐tech future.”
According to Benchmark, the Summit ‐ titled the Energy‐Storage Revolution: Securing U.S. Supply
C h a i n s ‐ w a s d e s c r i b e d a s “ a p r i v a t e , i n v i t a t i o n ‐ o n l y s u m m i t t asked with the sole purpose of
advancing U.S. interests in the supply chain for electric vehic les and energy‐storage industries.
The private summit is designed to engage U.S.‐government partic ipants including U.S. Senators
and Representatives, and U.S. government agencies, with industry and developers of U.S.‐based,
critical raw‐material assets for electric‐vehicle and energy‐storage battery applications ‐ lithium,
graphite, cobalt and nickel.”
I n h i s o p e d , M r . H u s t o n n o t e d , “ W i t h z e r o U . S . p r o d u c t i o n , t h e re’s clearly room for new U.S.
supply from companies like mine, developing the largest known American graphite resource,
located in Alaska. The need could hardly be greater…. We’ve all heard about Tesla’s GigaFactory
in Nevada, production hub for the company’s EV batteries. Lithium analysts predict that EV
demand will require the equivale nt of 35 GigaFactories worldwid e – by 2030. And despite the
name, the average lithium‐ion battery requires eight times more graphite than lithium by
volume.”
Graphite One recently completed a capital raise, the proceeds o f which will fund work on the
Company’s Pre‐Feasibility Study for its Graphite Creek Project, located near Nome, Alaska.
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About Graphite One
GRAPHITE ONE INC. continues to develop its Graphite Creek Project (the “Project”), whereby the
Company could potentially become an American producer of high g rade Coated Spherical
Graphite (“CSG”) that is integrated with a domestic graphite re source. The Project is proposed
as a vertically integrated enterprise to mine, process and manu facture high grade CSG primarily
for the lithium‐ion electric vehicle battery market. As set forth in the Company’s Preliminary
Economic Assessment, potential graphite mineralization mined from the Company’s Graphite
Creek Property is expected to be processed into concentrate at a graphite processing plant. The
p r o p o s e d p r o c e s s i n g p l a n t w o u l d b e l o c a t e d o n t h e G r a p h i t e C r e ek Property situated on the
S e w a r d P e n i n s u l a a b o u t 6 0 k i l o m e t e r s n o r t h o f N o m e , A l a s k a . C SG and other value‐added
graphite products would likely be manufactured from the concent rate at the Company’s
proposed graphite product manufacturing facility, the location of which is the subject of further
study and analysis. The Company intends to make a production d ecision on the Project once a
feasibility study is completed.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
"Anthony Huston” (signed)
For more information on Graphite One Inc please visit the Company’s website,
www.GraphiteOneInc.com or contact:
Anthony Huston
CEO, President & Director
Tel: (604) 889‐4251
Email: [email protected]
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