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Something stirring - looks like our large buyer at 27.5c just got filled - they were not there for long so someone accumulating just below CR price - im in for more at 27.5c
looks like the PRO's have arrived and accumulating
this looks good and i expect a spike in price by end of week - seen this type of trading before with TLG
my strategy is simple - buy more on any short term weakness
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Interesting videos seems Graphene is going to be in high demand..
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Good on ya Schu...you certainly get the pom-poms out when you like a stock.
Have held this for 18 or so months, Sweden is a very favourable country for miners and this stock is surface, high grade and open...TLG is the one to have for sure- although you did convince me to pick up a few k$ of RNU a month ago just to cover the bases. Interesting space to be in and the upside is off the hook!
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Originally Posted by Aotea
Good on ya Schu...you certainly get the pom-poms out when you like a stock.
Have held this for 18 or so months, Sweden is a very favourable country for miners and this stock is surface, high grade and open...TLG is the one to have for sure- although you did convince me to pick up a few k$ of RNU a month ago just to cover the bases. Interesting space to be in and the upside is off the hook!
Good to hear Aotea- its a great story and i intend buying more parcels while shareprice in the mid to high 20's - any sniff of a deal and this should skyrocket - so much going for it and undervalued IMO - what i like about TLG aside from the obvious is that they have multiple applications for their graphite/graphene , not just battery technology - they are currently providing production samples to their customers which could trigger a big run if they secure someone who is in the manufacturing space in the area of coatings, coin batteries, and concrete-
Even a steel manufacturer can add a coating of graphene which would make it multiple times stronger - "graphite is the superman of materials and the strongest material in the world " not to mention its multiple applications and is more conductive than copper ( 200 times stronger than steel and many times lighter therefore if used in car manufacturing, cars would becme more economical due to less weight - ) so many applications as your aware
the MD was also referring to the concrete sector and adding graphite to their products dramatically strengthens their products to potentially withstand earthquakes and other natural occuring disasters- TLG are in the drivers seat and the market has to catch up with what they have -
SYR is a good example of a company that has done well shareprice wise at $5.00 share - they have 80 million tonnes verses our 20 million so that makes our shareprice about 1/4 theirs so $1.25c share LOL and ours is the highest grade in the world JORC 2012 and more cost effective
When you compare SYR to TLG, TLG is lagging in shareprice which is astounding to say the least but in saying that it WILL run , its just a case of when and before you know it we will be back at 50c -
As we speak, TLG are already talking to potential customers as I write this so it would be good to get a company update on this as these customers im lead to believe are GIANT manufacturing companies - once secured this will trigger FULL SCALE PRODUCTION as they are already producing product from their pilot plant in GERMANY
P.S pom poms have been replaced for 5 piece drum set
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TLG - my top graphene play !!- i believe TLG have the right graphene characteristics and composition, as it can be used across a wide range of applications and sectors (coatings , energy , composites and construction) not just 1 sector like most graphene producing companies -
KEY ADVANTAGE THAT TLG specific Graphite have over others :
Multiple APPLICATIONS for TLG specific graphite :- ( i find coatings intriguing)
COATINGS INDUSTRY
•Replace chrome and zinc in anticorrosion & antifouling coatings
•Electric and thermally conductive inks
•Current market 40Mt/a
CONSTRUCTION
•Lighter, stronger cement
•Higher performance insulation materials
•Functional (electrical or thermallly conductive) glass and building materials
ENERGY
•Li ion batteries
•Flow batteries
•Fuel cells
•Solar panels
•Printable batteries and circuits
COMPOSITES
•Flexible conductive plastics
•Stronger, lighter plastics and carbon fibre materials
•3D printing inks
Close to full scale production with the worlds highest grades of 18-25% and their multiple million tonne resource is laying on the ground at 60,000t at 1 vertical meter ( staggering)
IMPORTANT TO NOTE: """99.9% GRAPHITE """"" JORC resources1 plus additional 136-250Mt @ 18-25%Cg
https://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=t&rc...29759880,d.dGo
" Net present value estimated A$490m (12% discount rate)" - Current marketcap $41 mill
TLG have proven they have the highest grade in the world, they claim are one / if not, the lowest cost producer of graphene in the world - they currently producers on phase 2 of ramp up and are in discussions with large manufacturers to acquire some juicy supply contracts that will allow "full scale production"--- this is KEY
High Grade Graphite Pipeline
‣100% ownership of five graphite projects in Sweden containing multiple deposits
‣ Full range of graphite flake sizes from graphene, micrographite to jumbo and larger
‣ JORC resources1 plus additional 136-250Mt @ 18-25%Cg exploration targets1
8 Reasons to invest in TLG :
1) World’s highest grade JORC/NI43-101 graphite resource#
2) Process technology requires no crushing, no grinding
3) Deposit in Sweden - top class jurisdiction
4) German pilot plant scaling up technology and sample supply to customers
5) Synthetic 99.9% graphite‣
6) Potential to be worlds best margin, large volume supplier of graphene and micrographite raw materials
7) Potential to be disruptive in energy (batteries) and advanced material (functional) products
8) Low capex/opex/funding requirements
TALGAS DEVELOPMENT STORY
Following successful scale up of process, full scale development planned for Sweden
Scoping study ~20 years 250,000 tpa ore producing approximately 40,000t graphite, 6,000t micrographite and 1,000t graphene
Capital cost A$29.3m as no crushing/ grinding circuit and ancillaries
Net present value estimated A$490m (12% discount rate)
Does not require graphene to be financially robust
Conservative assumptions - big revenue leverage in value-adding to graphite and micrographite streams
Talga owns 3 of Top 10 grade graphite resources in world
‣ Pipeline of development to deliver into market
‣ Focus on margins and volume of market applications, not resource tonnes for tonnes sake
ARTICLE !
Graphene consists of a single atomic layer of carbon, arranged in a honeycomb lattice. “Our first Science paper, in 2008, studied the strength graphene can achieve if it has no defects—its intrinsic strength,” says James Hone, professor of mechanical engineering, who led the study with Jeffrey Kysar, professor of mechanical engineering. “But defect-free, pristine graphene exists only in very small areas. Large-area sheets required for applications must contain many small grains connected at grain boundaries, and it was unclear how strong those grain boundaries were. This, our second Science paper, reports on the strength of large-area graphene films grown using chemical vapor deposition (CVD), and we’re excited to say that graphene is back and stronger than ever.”
The study verifies that commonly used methods for post-processing CVD-grown graphene weaken grain boundaries, resulting in the extremely low strength seen in previous studies. The Columbia Engineering team developed a new process that prevents any damage of graphene during transfer. “We substituted a different etchant and were able to create test samples without harming the graphene,” notes the paper’s lead author, Gwan-Hyoung Lee, a postdoctoral fellow in the Hone lab. “Our findings clearly correct the mistaken consensus that grain boundaries of graphene are weak. This is great news because graphene offers such a plethora of opportunities both for fundamental scientific research and industrial applications.”
Profs. James Hone and Jeffrey Kysar
In its perfect crystalline form, graphene (a one-atom-thick carbon layer) is the strongest material ever measured, as the Columbia Engineering team reported in Science in 2008—so strong that, as Hone observed, “it would take an elephant, balanced on a pencil, to break through a sheet of graphene the thickness of Saran Wrap.” For the first study, the team obtained small, structurally perfect flakes of graphene by mechanical exfoliation, or mechanical peeling, from a crystal of graphite. But exfoliation is a time-consuming process that will never be practical for any of the many potential applications of graphene that require industrial mass production.
Currently, scientists can grow sheets of graphene as large as a television screen by using chemical vapor deposition (CVD), in which single layers of graphene are grown on copper substrates in a high-temperature furnace. One of the first applications of graphene may be as a conducting layer in flexible displays.
“But CVD graphene is ‘stitched’ together from many small crystalline grains—like a quilt—at grain boundaries that contain defects in the atomic structure,” Kysar explains. “These grain boundaries can severely limit the strength of large-area graphene if they break much more easily than the perfect crystal lattice, and so there has been intense interest in understanding how strong they can be.”
The Columbia Engineering team wanted to discover what was making CVD graphene so weak. In studying the processing techniques used to create their samples for testing, they found that the chemical most commonly used to remove the copper substrate also causes damage to the graphene, severely degrading its strength.
Click on the image to watch Prof. James Hone take us on a tour of his synthesis lab in the Northwest Corner Building, where he grows graphene and nanotubes.
Their experiments demonstrated that CVD graphene with large grains is exactly as strong as exfoliated graphene, showing that its crystal lattice is just as perfect. And, more surprisingly, their experiments also showed that CVD graphene with small grains, even when tested right at a grain boundary, is about 90% as strong as the ideal crystal.
“This is an exciting result for the future of graphene, because it provides experimental evidence that the exceptional strength it possesses at the atomic scale can persist all the way up to samples inches or more in size,” says Hone. “This strength will be invaluable as scientists continue to develop new flexible electronics and ultrastrong composite materials.”
Strong, large-area graphene can be used for a wide variety of applications such as flexible electronics and strengthening components—potentially, a television screen that rolls up like a poster or ultrastrong composites that could replace carbon fiber. Or, the researchers speculate, a science fiction idea of a space elevator that could connect an orbiting satellite to Earth by a long cord that might consist of sheets of CVD graphene, since graphene (and its cousin material, carbon nanotubes) is the only material with the high strength-to-weight ratio required for this kind of hypothetical application.
The team is also excited about studying 2D materials like graphene. “Very little is known about the effects of grain boundaries in 2D materials,” Kysar adds. “Our work shows that grain boundaries in 2D materials can be much more sensitive to processing than in 3D materials. This is due to all the atoms in graphene being surface atoms, so surface damage that would normally not degrade the strength of 3D materials can completely destroy the strength of 2D materials. However with appropriate processing that avoids surface damage, grain boundaries in 2D materials, especially graphene, can be nearly as strong as the perfect, defect-free structure.”
The study was supported by grants from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the National Science Foundation.
—by Holly Evarts
Related Stories:
Podcast: Prof. Jeffrey Kysar on Testing Graphene's Strength (Science)
Graphene Study Confirms 40-Year-Old Physics Prediction
Using Graphene to Make Wireless Communications More Flexible
Graphene Confirmed As Strongest Material
Posted: May 31, 2013
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Over 2 billion tonnes of concrete used in a year worldwide
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Hey schu; is that pilot process a new unproven one or not? Have read through the thread but can't find anything,
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Originally Posted by Joshuatree
Hey schu; is that pilot process a new unproven one or not? Have read through the thread but can't find anything,
hEY JoshuaT- here you go - this info is from APRIL 2016 PRESENTATION and they have already scaled up to phase 2
im seriously thinking of doing a Warren Buffett and throwing 50% of my investment money at this
Phase 2 is an expansion of and improvement on Talga’s Phase 1 equipment and involves processing shaped raw graphite ore from Talga’s Swedish deposits in slabs up to 50kg in weight each (up from 10kg previously). Additional modified cells have been installed to increase total capacity of the facility to 365kg ore feed at a time.
Talga Pilot Test Facility Rudolstadt, Germany
Process Technology scale up - Exfoliation Unit
‣ Phase 2 commissioned April 2016
‣ Pilot facility total feed load 365kg ore.
‣ Cells up to 200l vol. each
Talga Pilot Processing Facility Expands in Germany
• Commissioning of larger scale (Phase 2) processing equipment commenced
• New production cells installed with expanded capacity to accept 50kg graphite feed each - optimisation of process test-work on track
• Samples delivered to various industry collaborators across
key target markets accelerating product testing and further process development
• Sample supply agreement reached with a US based Lithium-ion battery development corporation
• Next stage Lithium-ion battery test programs commenced in Germany and UK
• Strategy to develop and test products and prototypes enhanced by Talga graphene and graphite
Advanced materials company, Talga Resources Ltd (“Talga” or “the Company”)(ASX: TLG), is pleased to provide an update on its operations and to announce that wet commissioning of its Phase 2 pilot scale test facility in Germany has commenced.
Phase 2 is an expansion of and improvement on Talga’s Phase 1 equipment and involves processing shaped raw graphite ore from Talga’s Swedish deposits in slabs up to 50kg in weight each (up from 10kg previously). Additional modified cells have been installed to increase total capacity of the facility to 365kg ore feed at a time.
The production process begins by ‘unzipping’ layers of graphite at an atomic level from Talga's raw ore slabs in custom designed
electrochemical exfoliation cells, followed by proprietary recovery and concentration stages.
At full commercial scale, the process aims to deliver industrial volumes of high quality product, at competitive prices.
The Phase 2 expansion is an important operational milestone as Talga continues to scale up and optimise its processing technology, enabling Talga to provide higher volume and tailored sample materials for specific industry based testing.
Talga uses the industry feedback to identify the products and optimal processing parameters required in the scale up of its pilot test-work facility in Germany. After successful process scale up, Talga envisages constructing its full-scale commercial production facility near its Swedish deposit (“Vittangi Project”).
Next Steps
Future milestones for Talga in 2016 include:
• Commissioning Phase 2 equipment recovery and concentration stages through April- June; (COMPLETE)
• Advancing commercial relationships and seeking endorsement and validation from well
known industrial brand names; (COMPLETE)
• Receiving results of product development/prototypes in key sectors; (COMPLETE)
• Permitting and feasibility studies progressing in Sweden; and
• Lithium-ion battery test work results
Lithium-ion Battery Test-work
Talga has historically focussed on the use of its graphene and graphite materials in large scale
industrial markets such as coatings, construction and composites. Until recently, research into
potential applications within the energy market had been quite preliminary.
As a result of recent positive test results using Talga graphite in Lithium-ion (“Li-ion”) battery
anodes (see ASX:TLG 17 Feb 2016) and follow up interest from industry participants, the
Company is now conducting further test-work and investigating commercialisation opportunities
within the energy market (in addition to coatings, construction and composites).
Applications within the energy market can be classified into two broad sectors with a range of
technologies, namely, “production” (e.g. fuel cells, solar panels) and “storage” (e.g., solid state
and flow batteries, thermal storage). Applications for use of Talga graphite and graphene across
both these sectors are currently being investigated.
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Cheers. i ask because i have been badly burnt before where a pilot plant/process has been successful but scale ups have not with unenvsaged problem after problem. PGI's Albion process for gold from tailings is one which ultimately cost me big after a roller coaster ride from where i was $100's of thousands of $ ahead to maybe $100,000 in the red because it took many years to get to a reasonable recovery rate let alone the one promised(never has). So I'm very very cautious with these sorts of things now. Will attempt some more homework here to get a feel anyways.
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