Volt Carbon Technologies Inc. announce the achievement of enriching dry tailings from its graphite separation process into an Iron Concentrate as part of its Graphite Processing initiative. Notably, this accomplishment was realized during the separation of flake graphite hosted in iron formation. The results pave the way for Volt Carbon to optimize material usage, reducing waste and chemicals in its proprietary graphite separation methods.

This approach is anticipated to yield substantially reduced waste and chemical usage compared to conventional flotation methods. Volt Carbon will investigate potential applications for the enriched byproduct, with a particular emphasis on identifying consumers within the steel industry for the iron concentrate. Subsequent steps at Volt include scale up of the iron enrichment process, transitioning from the current small batch processing to bulk handling.

The company plans to process materials sourced from mineral properties known to contain flake graphite that is hosted within iron formations. This would include materials from Volt Carbon's mineral interests in Green Battery Minerals' Berkwood Graphite Property and E- Power Resources' Tetepisca Property.