Leading Edge Materials Provides Update on High Purity Battery
NEWS RELEASE January 25, 2017
LEADING EDGE MATERIALS CORP.
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Leading Edge Materials Provides Update on High Purity Battery
Graphite Qualification
Vancouver, Canada – Leading Edge Materials Corp . (“Leading Edge Materials”) or (the “Company”)
(TSXV:LEM) (OTCQB: LEMIF) is pleased to announce the latest results from optimization and qualification
test work to produce high value graphite products with graphite from the Company’s Woxna mine and
processing facility in Sweden. Excellent electrochemical results were achieved in ongoing testing of
purified Woxna graphite product.
Highlights of this Qualification Process:
Tap Density 0.95 g/cc (target is greater than or equal to 0.95 g/cc)
Greater than 60% recovery from Spheronization
Particle size distribution in the 10-30 micron range
Surface Area of 4.75 m2/g (target range of 3-5 m2 /g)
Blair Way, President and CEO, stated “Our recent flowsheet development work has successfully produced
high purity spheroidal graphite samples with electrical properties that are on target for use in lithium ion
batteries. Qualification for lithium ion battery use requires a substantial amount of both test data and
product, and with our research partners the Company has made substantial progress in both regards.
Our Woxna mine and processing facility has the ca pacity to provide commercial volumes of graphite
flotation concentrate for testwork, allowing large scale testing to demonstrate product quality and
consistency to existing and potential lithium ion battery cell manufactures.”
A commercial graphite flotation concentrate from the Woxna mine in Sweden was shipped to an
independent laboratory for an ongoing high purity spheroidal flowsheet development test program. The
samples pass through a methodical campaign of tests and analysis to identify key characteristics such as
graphitic carbon content, tap density, BET surface area, particle size distribution and reversible capacity.
These results have been very promising and the Company will provide further updates as the qualification
test works progresses.
On behalf of the Board,
"Blair Way"
Blair Way, President & CEO
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on current expectations. These statements should not be read as guarantees of future performance or results. Such
statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results,
performance or achievements to be materially different from those implied by such statements. Such statements
include but are not limited to the Company’s expectations regarding testwork production at Woxna, the Company’s
preliminary economic assessment on Woxna is no longer current or valid as a result of the filing of a new NI 43-101
Technical Report effective March 24, 2015, and the Company has no plans to complete a new preliminary economic
assessment, a pre-feasibility or feasibility study on the projec t, as such there is an increased risk of technical and
economic failure for the Woxna graphite project; unexpected geological conditions; delays in obtaining or failure to
obtain necessary permits and approvals from government authorities. Alth ough such statements are based on
management's reasonable assumptions, there are risk fa ctors which could cause the Company's actual results,
performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, pe rformance or achievements
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