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esta noticia puede animar a $WWR:

Why Are Tesla, Volkswagen And Nio Scrambling For Graphite?

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Eso espero… cada vez somos menos pacientes ??

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intentaré cargar más hoy aqui en WWR

 

 orden puesta de venta en VISL con un 20%

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EL VOLUMEN estos días x10

la llevan parando tres días seguidos...

 

dentro a 2,16$

en estos tiempos parece una locura pero espero hacer un x5, ya veremos

cargo más, un buen paquete de títulos

entra volumen y activa en redes, no debería perder hoy lo 2,07$

las llevo a 2,11$, cargado

 

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quiero cargar mas pero tengo que vender algo, mañana lo valoro

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quiero cargar mas pero tengo que vender algo, mañana lo valoro

Habrá que ver hoy como se comporta. Espero que suba en breve, si no la soltaré y a por otra…con unas cuantas voy a ir así este trimestre, haciendo entradas y salidas de forma más activa 

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sí, es una buena estrategia, mejor poder ir ganando algo poco a poco y reinvertirlo de nuevo, en acciones que tienen alta volatilidad, para poder ir compensando otras mientras el mercado va mejorando, que esperemos que dure así y acabemos con un buen año.

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meto lo de SNDL aqui, cargo más títulos a la espera de que la dejen despegar, la están sujetando demasiado

no entiendo tampoco esta, cuando sube la cortan, alguien las quiere a 2,05$

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yo las quiero a 2,05$ ?, a ver si entro hoy

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yo las quiero a 2,05$ ?, a ver si entro hoy

ya he entrado a 2,01$, ya puede subirrrrr 

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https://www.conferencecalltranscripts.com/summary/?id=10721236

 

Westwater Resources And Alabama Graphite Products Break Ground On Kellyton Processing Plant

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https://www.otcdynamics.com/wwr-westwater-resources-and-alabama-graphite-products-break-ground-on-kellyton-processing-plant/

 

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, Congressman Mike Rogers, and numerous other state and local government officials and business leaders joined Westwater Resources, Inc. (NYSE American: WWR) and its subsidiary Alabama Graphite Products, LLC (collectively the “Company”) in breaking ground today for the construction of the Company’s graphite processing plant in Kellyton, just outside Alexander City, Alabama.

The $202 million plant, which is being built in the Lake Martin Regional Industrial Park just off U.S. 280 in Coosa County, will process raw graphite into refined, battery-grade graphite for use in batteries that power electric vehicles (EVs), electronics and many other products. Once completed, Phase I of the facility is expected to employ at least 100 people at an estimated average hourly wage in excess of $21 per hour and when fully operational is expected to produce 7,500 metric tons of refined graphite each year.

“The construction of this plant is the result of a lot of work, cooperation, planning and vision by numerous people over a number of years,” said Chad Potter, President and CEO of Westwater Resources and Alabama Graphite Products. “I want to thank our incredible team, which envisioned and laid the foundation for what is the first graphite plant of its kind anywhere, as well as our state and local partners who made this day possible.”

Refined graphite is used as the anode in lithium-ion batteries that are found in EVs and other products, as well as a conductivity enhancer for all types of batteries, including the common lead-acid batteries in traditional vehicles. The batteries found in an average EV need about 175-200 pounds of graphite. There are currently no producers of natural-grade graphite in the U.S. for these types of products. Currently, the refined graphite used in lithium-ion and other batteries is primarily imported from China. As a result, the U.S. government has declared graphite a critical strategic mineral.

Gov. Ivey joined numerous state and local government officials and business leaders who took part in the groundbreaking celebration at the Kellyton site. She said the plant will put Alabama at the top echelon in the production of an essential material for EVs and other batteries.

“Alabama, which is home to Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Hyundai, Toyota and Mazda, is among the top four states in the nation in automobile production,” Gov. Ivey said. “This plant will make Alabama an even bigger player in the fast-growing electric vehicle sector. It also creates jobs and will serve as a catalyst for economic development in the region, which my administration has worked tirelessly over the years to bring to the state. As this new manufacturing facility demonstrates, the fruits of that labor are paying dividends for the people of Alabama.”

Congressman Rogers praised Alabama Graphite Products for the jobs and economic development it is bringing to his district. “Having the first graphite processing of its kind in Coosa County is a real honor and I believe an indication of what’s to come,” Congressman Rogers said. “This project will spur more economic development in the region and more jobs for the people here.”

The plant is being built by Alabama Graphite Products, LLC, a subsidiary of Westwater Resources. Westwater Resources is a Colorado-based company focused on developing battery-ready natural graphite materials for advanced batteries and is committed to exploring and developing materials for clean, sustainable energy production.

The Kellyton plant will use a proprietary process to purify the feedstock and refine it into battery grade graphite. This process is safer and more environmentally friendly and sustainable than the hydrofluoric acid-based process commonly used in China and elsewhere, which requires more water and produces more environment-damaging byproducts.

“Since our announcement in June of last year that we will build our state-of-the-art processing plant in Alabama, we have made significant investments in preparation for the operation of our plant,” Mr. Potter said. “We have purchased and renovated two large existing buildings adjacent to the plant site – one for warehousing and logistical uses, the other for our laboratory and administrative offices. As our investment of millions of dollars and our commitment to invest even more indicate, we are firmly committed to Alabama and this community, and we look forward to being here for many years to come.”

In addition to the processing plant, the Company plans to continue advanced exploration activities of a graphite deposit in western Coosa County in the Alabama Graphite Belt. Westwater Resources acquired mineral rights to approximately 41,900 acres in 2018 and expects to begin mining operations by the end of 2028. Until then, the Kellyton plant will import feed graphite acquired from high-quality sources. There is currently no commercial-level graphite mining in the U.S.

Mr. Potter thanked the many state and local officials, agencies, industrial recruiters, associations and businesses that helped make the project a reality. “The cooperation and assistance we have received – from tax incentives to utilities to workforce development – has been incredible. We would not be here today without their support.”

In addition to Gov. Ivey and Congressman Rogers, other government officials at the groundbreaking included Alabama Commerce Secretary Greg Canfield, Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs Director Kenneth Boswell, State Senator Clyde Chambliss, State Representatives Ben Robbins and Ed Oliver, Coosa County Commissioners and Alexander City officials. Also in attendance were representatives from the Lake Martin Area Economic Development Alliance, the Lake Martin Area Industrial Development Authority, the Alabama Clean Fuels Coalition, the Alabama Mining Association, the Energy Institute of Alabama, Alabama Power Company, and project contractors: Fite Building Company, B.L. Harbert International, Asimpa, Samuel Engineering and Bailey-Harris Construction Company.

The Kellyton processing plant is expected to begin operation by the end of the second quarter of 2023.

For more information about Alabama Graphite Products, go online to www.alabamagraphiteproducts.com.

About Westwater Resources Inc.

Westwater Resources, Inc. (NYSE American: WWR) is focused on developing battery-grade natural graphite products. The Company’s primary project is the Kellyton graphite processing plant that is under construction in east-central Alabama. In addition, the Company’s Coosa graphite deposit is the most advanced natural flake graphite deposit in the contiguous United States — and located across 41,900 acres (~17,000 hectares) in Coosa County, Alabama. For more information, visit www.westwaterresources.net.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions and are identified by words such as "expects," "estimates," "projects," "anticipates," "believes," "could," “scheduled,” and other similar words. Forward looking statements include, among other things, statements concerning the construction and operation of the Company’s Kellyton graphite processing facility, the Company’s Coosa graphite deposit, and the costs and schedules associated with them. The Company cautions that there are certain factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking information that has been provided. The reader is cautioned not to put undue reliance on this forward-looking information, which is not a guarantee of future performance and is subject to a number of uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside the control of the Company; accordingly, there can be no assurance that such suggested results will be realized. The following factors, in addition to those discussed in Westwater’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and subsequent securities filings, could cause actual results to differ materially from management expectations as suggested by such forward-looking information: (a) the spot price and long‑term contract price of graphite (both flake graphite feedstock and purified graphite products) and vanadium, and the world-wide supply and demand of graphite and vanadium; (b) the effects, extent and timing of the entry of additional competition in the markets in which we operate; (c) the ability to obtain contracts with customers; (d) available sources and transportation of graphite feedstock; (e) the ability to control costs and avoid cost and schedule overruns during the development, construction and operation of the Kellyton graphite processing facility; (f) the ability to construct and operate the Kellyton graphite processing plant in accordance with the requirements of permits and licenses and the requirements of tax credits and other incentives; (g) government regulation of the mining and manufacturing industries in the United States; (h) unanticipated geological, processing, regulatory and legal or other problems we may encounter; (i) the results of our exploration activities at the Coosa graphite deposit, and the possibility that future exploration results may be materially less promising than initial exploration results; (j) any graphite or vanadium discoveries at the Coosa graphite deposit not being in high enough concentration to make it economic to extract the metals; (k) our ability to finance growth plans; (l) the potential effects of the continued COVID-19 pandemic; (m) currently pending or new litigation or arbitration; and (n) our ability to maintain and timely receive mining, manufacturing, and other permits from regulatory agencies.

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le dará el empujón que esperamos... a ver qué tal va la semana ? ? 

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The state of Alabama will soon be an even bigger part of the automaking industry, thanks to a rare earth mineral found deep in east-central Alabama. A 37 mile swath of land known as the Graphite Belt runs entirely across Coosa County and into adjacent Alabama counties. It is expected to make the state the number one supplier of the critical mineral required to make lithium-ion batteries.

On Tuesday, Alabama Graphite and its parent company, Westwater Resources, Inc., celebrated a groundbreaking. The companies currently hold mineral rights along the broad southwestern portion of the Alabama Graphite Belt. Westwater President and CEO Chad Potter was on hand for the groundbreaking.

“This celebration is the result of a lot of hard work, cooperation and planning envisioned by numerous people over many years,” Potter said. “I want to first thank Westwater’s incredible team that envisioned and laid the foundation for what is the first graphite processing plant of its kind anywhere, using our proprietary process to produce refined graphite for the batteries in electric vehicles and other products.”

The plant will be in the Lake Martin Regional Industrial Park and will employ around 100 people in the first phase of development. The plant will cost around $202 million to build.

“As our investment of hundreds of millions of dollars indicates, we are firmly committed to Alabama and this community, and we look forward to being here for many years to come,” Potter said.

Jobs are expected to pay around $21 per hour.

 

 

 

 

The importance of graphite

 

 

Executive orders issued from the White House, the rising demand for electrical vehicles (EVs), and an anticipated years-long shortage of lithium-ion have combined to provide Alabama with an opportunity to become a global leader. The lithium-ion batteries that are used to power rechargeable electric products require graphite, the same material used in everything from writing pencils, to electronic controls, to lubricants, to the heatshields on the leading edge of the Space Shuttle wings.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey joined the crowd Tuesday to celebrate what the future holds.

“It’s a great day to be in Coosa County,” Ivey said. “Chad, your leadership and your influence are a shining example of how we can accomplish our goals to ensure ‘made in Alabama’ is bringing back ‘made in America.'”

Ivey said with the state being home to five major automakers already, the plant will help make the state a more powerful auto manufacturing hub.

“Automakers around the globe are making this transition, as are many drivers, and it is Alabama that is going to take them there,” said Ivey. “… The Alabama Graphite Products Plant will no doubt put Alabama at the nation’s forefront in producing critical material needed for success.”

So, why is graphite suddenly so important that two successive presidents on opposite ends of the political spectrum have issued orders to revive the American graphite mining and graphite processing industries? While still in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order aimed at reducing our dependence on Chinese graphite. China is the top supplier of graphite in the world. Natural graphite is listed on both the US and European Union critical raw materials lists. More recently, President Joe Biden invoked the Defense Production Act to encourage domestic production of critical materials like graphite for large capacity lithium batteries used for electric vehicles and clean energy storage.

While China currently supplies 63% of the world’s graphite supply, the state of Alabama is home to the largest and most accessible natural deposit of flake graphite in the 48 contiguous states.

“There’s a lot of disruption in the market today,” Alabama Secretary of Commerce Greg Canfield said at the event Tuesday. “The electrification of vehicles and energy storage, and the technology behind the electrification of vehicles, and our need for green energy, as we move forward into the future, as we try to achieve energy sufficiency and create a strategy for our nation that allows us to secure our future, are all represented in the Alabama Graphite Products project which we are here to celebrate today. Disruption can be chaotic, but I’m here to tell you, disruption in Alabama equals opportunity, and that is exactly what Alabama graphite represents.”

Canfield said the state is reducing dependence on China and other nations by providing minerals needed in the global supply chain.

 

 

 

 

Leaders in the automotive industry

 

 

Alabama is right in the middle of a huge southern US crescent of major lithium-ion battery customers that begins with a Tesla Model Y production plant in Texas and stretches eastward to the automakers Toyota, Mercedes and Hyundai in Alabama, Volkswagen in Tennessee, Kia in Georgia and BMW in South Carolina. In addition to those automakers who stand to benefit from nearby domestic lithium-ion battery resources, there are eight major corporate defense and aerospace systems suppliers in the Huntsville-Decatur and Mobile areas who need a reliable and steady supply of highly efficient lithium batteries.

While EV maker Tesla does not yet have an automobile or EV truck manufacturing plant in the Yellowhammer State, the state could reap a portion of Tesla’s profits from cars equipped with battery packs loaded with Alabama-mined and -processed graphite. The popular Model 3 Tesla 75 kilowatt-hour EV contains 200-pounds of graphite in its battery pack. The number of lithium-ion battery cells needed to manufacture a single Tesla Model S equipped with Tesla’s “Plaid Pack” is 7,930 cylindrical cells that provide 99 kilowatt-hours of electrical energy units. The demand for the graphite required to make EV battery cells will increase steadily as consumers demand larger, higher-driving-range-per-charge EVs in the future. It is projected that annual US sales of EVs will reach 15 million EVs in three years, according to Alabama Graphite.

The International Organization of Securities Commissions-regulated Benchmark Mineral Intelligence electric vehicle industry research agency states that there will be a serious global shortage of natural graphite beginning in 2023 and lasting until at least 2026, further increasing market demand for Alabama graphite.

“When this plant is operational, the Alabamians employed here will be helping produce one of the most critical minerals of today’s modern economy,” Ivey said. “These men and women will be a part of something transformational for our state and nation’s economy, but the world is right here, in small-town Alabama.”

 

 

 

 

Why Alabama graphite is so rare

 

 

While it is possible to create synthetic graphite, making synthetic graphite is more expensive and the manufacturing process to create it causes more greenhouse gas emissions than processing natural flake graphite for batteries does.

With millions of future EVs needing thousands of lithium-ion batteries, raw and finished battery material suppliers are scrambling to locate and exploit the materials they need to supply the anticipated demand. There are two major deposits of the mineral graphite in the United States, and Alabama has the easiest one to access and mine. The other one is in a geographically rougher and much less accessible site in Alaska. The Alabama graphite is a desirably weathered deposit of horizontally layered sheets of relatively soft rock, flaky in composition and blackish in color. Interestingly, both diamonds and graphite are 100% comprised of the element carbon, but because of the different ways those minerals were formed beneath the Earth’s surface, diamonds are the hardest (Mohs hardness scale 40) rocks in existence while graphite is one of the softest (Mohs hardness scale 1).

From the latter decades of the 19th century until the mid-20th century, graphite was commercially mined in central Alabama’s graphite belt, but it was mostly during World War I and World War II that mining operations there were more robust than they were during peacetime. Currently, Westwater’s new form of “black gold” is required to manufacture battery-grade graphite. Potter responded to President Biden’s Defense Production Act executive order by stating, “We are in the construction phase of our Kellyton, Alabama graphite processing plant. The United States is heavily dependent on imports of graphite, especially from China. We are proud to have a domestic graphite project in Alabama and in the United States.” 

 

 

 

 

Sustainability and safety

 

 

A statement issued by Alabama Graphite pointed out that Alabama Graphite will utilize a sustainable and “safer and more environmentally friendly [process]” than China uses to process raw graphite into lithium-battery grade anode material. China is known to use a hydrofluoric acid-based process that produces more environmentally damaging residuals and uses more water than the Alabama processing facilities will produce and use. The raw Alabama graphite will be processed into coated spherical purified graphite - high-performance anode material for lithium-ion batteries, purified micronized graphite conductivity enhancer for all types of batteries, and delaminated expanded graphite that improves electrical conductivity for batteries made for smartphones, computers, and other electronic devices.

While the large Alabama graphite mining operation is not anticipated to be fully running until the year 2027, Alabama Graphite will begin processing non-China sourced graphite at the new processing plant around the end of this year if the company proceeds on schedule.

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