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Canada graphite has advantage, naturally

North American developers of new natural graphite projects to feed burgeoning battery market demand have dismissed threats posed by synthetic product, and an increasingly dominant China, with one evidently bullish CEO telling the Energy Minerals Investor Hub: “We have no time to waste and we’re working as fast as we can to advance our project so that we can be ready to be in production to meet increasing demand for anode material.” Carmen Gómez-Cotta reports from Toronto