Tests were conducted at SGS Laboratory in Lakefield, Ontario, Canada.
The sample, whcih was taken from the upper 50ft of the existing Bama Mine pit wall, produced graphite concentrate with around 54.7% large flake (+80 mesh), including 17.8% in the jumbo flake (+48 mesh) category using simple floatation process, the company said.
The company said: "For all size ranges coarser than +150 mesh the purity exceeded 96.3% with the jumbo flake fraction having a purity of 98.5% in Scoping Level Evaluations."
Alabama Graphite president and CEO Ron Roda said: "We are tremendously pleased to see such high purity values within a simple flotation, in our first sample of the Bama material.
"To combine this with over 50% large and jumbo flakes indicate that the Bama Property shows excellent economic potential.
Metallurgical studies on Alabama Graphite’s Chilton and Coosa County properties are underway with detailed flowsheet development, which maximizes concentrate grade and carbon recovery while reducing the degradation of graphite flakes.
