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    Just found this article on Talga - looking good

    http://www.miningweekly.com/article/...ine-2016-07-19


    Talga launches graphene product line

    19th July 2016

    By: Megan van Wyngaardt
    Creamer Media Contributing Editor Online

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    JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Advanced materials company Talga Resources is seeking to unlock early commercialisation opportunities from its pilot plant facility in Germany by manufacturing targeted fit-for-purpose graphene products.

    Through four specific graphene products, including coatings, polymer composites, building products and energy storage/harvesting, the company will complement its supply of raw graphene and graphite materials.
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    ASX-listed Talga on Tuesday outlined that development of these product lines was in addition to the supply of raw graphene and graphite materials, which had been the company’s focus to date.

    The new strategy is a progression made possible by the growth of the pilot plant, which includes equipment scale up and a significant boost to the company’s technical team, enabling this new applied products capability and expedited path to associated sources of revenue.

    Talga will now direct its pilot plant output and future revenue focus to four targeted products, including a metal pretreatment coating; an electrically conductive ink; a conductive cement product and a high performance membrane for energy storage/harvesting.

    Market researcher Freedonia estimates current global membrane demand valued at $17.5-billion.

    Talga believes its strategy to produce tailored products and the continued expansion of production capabilities will provide the most effective, near-term opportunities for commercialisation.

    In-house and industry partner testing programmes, as well as field and benchmarking product trials will continue and be expanded to confirm performance results and support commercialisation progress.

    MD Mark Thompson said that Talga’s pilot scale graphene processing accomplishments in Rudolstadt and growing commercial relationships had provided the company with a clear picture of new emerging opportunities and how best to capitalise on these in the shorter term.

    “We have assessed dozens of market opportunities that have led us to focus on specific targeted large volume applications, enabling us to move faster to products, hand in hand with the raw materials. This approach is intended to create a platform from which Talga can secure validation and commitments from customers before full scale production,” he added.

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    Thanks , my point was re what works in pilot plants doesn't necessarily work in a full scale plant and/or can take years to get anywhere near nameplates promised. Will try and fit more time in for this . PGI is in Dominican republic and is operating ok now but well below nameplate and after many cap raises. It was the tech that let them down.

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    Some shinnanigans going on with shareprice today - big dump into 26c managed to get som emore at 26c - seems like someone trying to keep it down - last low we had was 20c so ill be waiting if they want to be silly bugg*** and drop it that low . Ill buy on any weakness
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    Nice recovery from fridays selloff to 26c - lets hope she holds and for those reading this thread- TLG is a long term hold and not designed for a quick trade - i cant give any advise on a TA basis as i am holding because of fundamentals and will wait untill they get a commerical deal and full scale production - untill then shareprice could go anywhere
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    Update on TLG

    Talga – Rubber Hits the Road

    Posted on August 24, 2016 by Christopher Ecclestone

    As we have noted in the past the three key words that best sum up Vittangi are “cheap, cheap, cheap” and they are music to investors’ ears in these days where all other things being in a projects favour the Capex then spoils the show. The other mantra is, as we never tire of saying, “production, production, production”. The markets may have picked up, but this truism has not gone away. We are not going to “party like its 2008 or 2011” again for a long while.

    With Talga we have yet another case of a stealth producer creeping up, like the tortoise on the hare, as its two successive campaigns of trial mining are turning into a test of the viability of, firstly, its mining plans and, secondly, its value-added products, primarily for now in the Industrial Coatings space.

    In this update I shall look at the progress made over the summer months towards these two goals.

    A Refresher

    Talga Resources (ASX: TLG) has joined the rush and becomes the second graphite player of note to target Sweden (the other being Flinders, which is also run by Australians despite its TSX-listing).

    Talga Resources has five 100% owned graphite projects comprising multiple deposits, all of which are located in Norrbotten County in the far north of Sweden. The two most advanced projects, Nunasvaara and Raitajärvi, both contain JORC Indicated resources.

    Nunasvaara, which forms part of the Vittangi Project, is a microcrystalline flake deposit, with what the company claims is the highest-grade JORC/NI 43-101 resource in the world (7.6mn tonnes @ 24.4% graphite). Raitajärvi, located some 150kms south-east of Vittangi is a coarse flake deposit, with 49% of contained flake classified large to jumbo size (4.3mn tonnes @ 7.1% graphite).

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    Talga came out with a Scoping Study for its main target, the Vittangi deposit, in October of 2014. The main findings were:

    Targeting dual production of ~46,000tpa graphite and ~1,000tpa graphene over approximately 20 years
    Low Capex of around AUD$29mn and capex payback 1.4 years
    Around AUD$84/t feed costs for 2% graphene recovery and ~77% total graphite recovery
    Indicative pre-tax NPV in excess of AUD$490mn based only on current JORC Indicated portion of resource – from surface

    Stealth Production

    While one sometimes despairs that the mining slump left no (or few) lessons learnt we are stumbling across more companies that do seem to have adjusted their strategies for the tough times and that this will hopefully carry on into the better times as there is no assurance “this time around” that money will flow in such an uninhibited and unfocussed way as it did pre-2011. Talga has joined the ranks of those companies that have used the downtime to prove their thesis with trial or micro-mining.

    In July the company commenced its second trial graphite ore mining campaign at the Vittangi project with the plan being to extract ~2,500 tonnes as required to feed Talga’s upscaled pilot test work facility at Talga Advanced Materials GmbH in Germany and continue developing the proprietary graphene production process.

    The 2016 trial mine is extending and deepening last year’s open pit site and similarly extracting whole multi-tonne blocks of graphite ore from within the total 2012 JORC resource of 9.8 million tonnes @ 25.3% graphite. The mine looked like this after the first season’s work.

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    For this season Talga adopted improved mining processes compared to the 2015 campaign with the main differences being:

    Larger, tailor-made and automated ore block cutting equipment for improved efficiencies and lower unit costs
    Ore blocks stockpiled in Sweden and delivered to Germany by truck as required

    The benches at the start of the July 2016 campaign are shown below:

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    Slicing large blocks of graphite for dispatch reminds one more of stone quarrying than the traditional mining techniques of blasting and fracturing the material for processing into a concentrate. The advantage comes here from the grade of the graphite being so high.

    Putting Together the Team

    In early August the surest sign yet that Talga was determined to hit the road to production came with the appointment of a heavyweight projects manager in the form of Martin Phillips. In an announcement to the ASX the company revealed that Phillips, a chemical engineer, had been appointed as Projects Manager – Europe. He is a veteran project manager, commercial manager and company director with over 25 years in the global metals and mining sector. The responsibilities of the role will include managing Talga’s graphene and graphite project developments as well as overseeing and driving of processing operations through Talga’s German subsidiary operations, Talga Advanced Materials GmbH.

    Building on an early career that included engineering roles in battery recycling programs and smelting innovations at MIM’s Mt Isa and UK operations, he constructed and managed operations and implemented growth strategies for offshore smelting businesses. His more recent roles at the mineral sands group, Iluka Resources, included Commercial Manager where his responsibilities were business and industry analysis, supply/demand models, market pricing and strategies.

    Though compensation was not mentioned, we can be sure that snagging such an industry veteran didn’t come cheap which is a further sign of Talga’s seriousness on this front.

    Thinking Outside the Box

    The graphite space has seen a bewildering amount of applications floated past investors in recent years. Most investor’s attention spans did not extend beyond the flake size “debate” and then narcolepsy set in. The “big” theme is the usage in Lithium Ion batteries but it is good to see that not all graphite players are not putting all their playing chips on this one space on the roulette table.

    In Talga’s case it has gone in the first instance for coating technologies and the users thereof as its initial end-users. This certainly reduces the competitive field and works on the angle that, being based in Sweden, Talga’s mine/processing facilities are within easy distance of some of the most important industrial users in the world. While coatings may not sound as sexy as Tesla they are considerably more “tried and true” with the total global coatings pre-treatment sector is worth about US$15bn per annum and falls within the US$120bn paint and coatings market, which has reported compound annual growth of over 5%.

    In Talga’s opinion its coating technology has the potential to be used in many industries, but is particularly well suited to the automotive, electronics and aerospace markets and anywhere the use of toxic chemicals, such as hexavalent chromium (which Talga’s product does not contain), are banned. Inhaled hexavalent chromium is recognized as a human carcinogen, nevertheless workers in many occupations are exposed to hexavalent chromium in their daily activities. Problematic exposure is known to occur among workers who handle chromate-containing products and those who weld, grind, or braze stainless steel. Chronic inhalation of hexavalent chromium compounds increases the risk of lung cancer. The lungs are the most vulnerable, followed by the fine capillaries in kidneys and intestines. Within the European Union, the use of hexavalent chromium in electronic equipment is largely prohibited by the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive.

    The product offers enhanced corrosion protection by harnessing graphene’s extreme electrical conductivity, impermeability and chemical structure to form a high performance coating.

    Talga also claims that its coating can be applied with industrial scale roll to roll machinery, reducing post-formation spray coating steps and improving manufacturing efficiency across products including automobile bodies to battery casings.

    In recent weeks Talga announced that it had produced and delivered its first value-added graphene based product. The product, a metal pre-treatment coating (“Coating”), was delivered to a leading global coatings company following the filing of a patent application over the Coating composition and production method.

    The Coating is the first of a range of targeted value-added products that Talga is developing and looking to commercialise. The global coatings company assessing the Coating will undertake accelerated application and performance trials over coming months.

    At the same time, further tests on Talga’s coating technology are underway at research institutions in India and the UK, where scientific peer review analysis and publication of the results will be conducted.

    Talga has aspirations to create a range of graphite products. The siting of the plant for these endeavours in Germany is a very interesting move by the company and heralds that it sees end-uses away from the almost “plain vanilla” Lithium Ion battery space as the way to go.

    Conclusion

    With Talga ticking the “cheap (by three)” box and the “production (by three)” box, it has earned a place in our affections.

    Like many others in the graphite space, Talga needs to bag an offtaker/sponsor to get a leg up on the competition. At least in its case, the low capex is a draw while the positioning in Europe is also a plus. Flinders has shown it can be done in Sweden with minimal outside interference and for the Swedish government the area where Talga are working is an even higher priority to see economic reactivation and job creation.

    Now that pilot production had provided proof of concept then it will be interesting to see if the company moves to a Feasibility Study (unless that phase can be short-circuited) and a partner found to kick-start the capex.

    As for value-added products, it would seem that potentially Talga’s gain is the chromium mining industry’s loss because if its product can gain sufficient traction it should be able to displace hexavalent chromium where it is still used and provide an alternative to those manufacturers grappling with the issue of finding a safe and responsible alternative.

    Indeed like some others we can think of in the mining space, the idea of pursuing the value-added and downstream alternatives in their “spaces” has been made more attractive by the wrenching times that most miners have suffered since 2011.

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    Thanks for posting

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    TLG on a nice little run. Sellers depth looking very slim. 32c was an important TA barrier to break. Hope the run is supported by some good news.

    discl. small holding

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    good little run continuing, up to 38c now

    should be a good stock in 2017 if they can get some deals signed

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    Quote Originally Posted by showstring View Post
    good little run continuing, up to 38c now

    should be a good stock in 2017 if they can get some deals signed
    has taken a pounding this afternoon...still, have faith in this company- have held for a couple of years now

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