Graphitexplorer und Quasiproduzenten
Murdock Capital Graphite Symposium: Focus Metals, Strike Graphite, Galaxy Capital and more
http://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/companies/...e--28093.html
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Kursrutsch...
bis auf einige wenige kurze Erholungsphasen seit der Finanzkrise vor 2-3 Jahren sind Kursrutsche nun wahrlich nichts neues... es trifft weiterhin bevorzugt den Rohstoffbereich und hier wiederum zumeist die Explorer...
M.E. gibt es zur Zeit viele Gründe dafür:
die Rohstoffpreise notieren momentan in einem sehr engen Band.
Das überträgt sich merkwürdigerweise auch auf die Explorationsbereiche.
Neben der weltweiten Schuldenproblematik und deren internationalen Wechselwirkungen scheint der Produktionsmotoer weltweit zur Zeit etwas ins Stottern geraten zu sein.
Selbst der chinesische Industrieminister erklärte vor kurzem, dass die
chinesische Wirtschaft noch nicht aus dem Schneider wäre.
Das lässt ebenfalls die Preise sinken.
Die weltweite Situation ist also weiterhin düster.
Kredite werden nicht gerne vergeben. Darunter leiden bekanntlich wiederum die Kleinen besonders. Es wird wohl ein großes Explorersterben geben wenn sich die Finanzsituation nicht bald ändert.
Die hohen Energiepreise sind ebenfalls von großem Übel.
Vielleicht wird dies in der Finanzwelt auch ein wenig künstlich gesteuert
(und das sage ich ohne Symphatien zu Verschwörungstheorien )
Begründung ist schon beinahe simpel:
Es ist schlichtweg US- Wahljahr.
Angeblich soll in jenen Jahren lt. einem hundertjährigen Kalender bis Juni immer Flaute gewesen sein.
Ab der zweiten Hälfte des Jahres würden lt. Statistik die Wahlversprechen in der Regel anfangen zu wirken und die Kurse somit wieder ansteigen.
Wer weiß ob diese Sichtweise nicht sogar in Börsenanwendersoftware implementiert ist...
Tja... wer weiß...
momentan scheint es viele Gründe für sinkende Kursverläufe zu geben.
Wenn überhaupt dürften Aber die wenigsten Gründe irgend etwas mit Focus direkt zu tun haben!
Welchen Stellenwert Grafit in Zukunft haben wird dass wissen wir. Und Focus wird einer der ersten sein die in Produktion gehen werden...
Nächste Woche ist die große Aktionärsversammlung bei Focus angesagt.
Mal gucken was sie zu Grafoid oder eventuell anstehende Partner zu verkünden haben...
wir dürfen also gespannt in die nächste Woche gucken :-)
Graphite Industry Gathers in Toronto for the Graphite Express on May 2nd
Packing for the Chicago Resource Investment Conference tonight, I plan on discussing the rising stars featured on GraphiteBlog over the next 2 days. This is an outstanding event for investors, and when I back on Sunday, we will be ramping up for participation with our friends at Resource Clips for the Graphite Express conference in Toronto on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 next door to our offices in the Sheraton. The event that many describe as 'presentation speed dating' will have 15 graphite companies presenting in record format. So here are my cliff notes on the companies who will be presenting in alphabetic order to prep everyone attending on who's who:
Amseco Exploration Ltd. (TSXV: AEL): On March 15, 2012, Amseco Exploration announced that it would acquire 25,362 hectares of land in a district known to host multiple graphite occurrences. Amseco Exploration will have 100% control of the 469 claims. As part of its strategic plan announced in February, Amseco Exploration has decided to expand its traditional precious metals exploration activities to also include industrial minerals. This decision was made based on rapid growth of the market for graphite and other industrial minerals. Amseco Exploration shares are trading at $0.05 with a 52-week high of $0.14.
Energizer Resources Inc. (TSX: EGZ): On April 4, 2012, Energizer Resources announced the addition of the Molo Zone to its Green Giant graphite project and reported that assay results of this area confirmed graphite mineralization at surface down to a hole depth of 108 meters at a grade of 8.80% carbon. Based on this and previous results from the Fotsy and Fondrana zones a new graphite camp is beginning to be defined in Madagascar. Energizer Resources shares are trading at $0.30 with a 52-week high of $0.47.
First Graphite Corp. (TSXV: FGR): On April 19, 2012, First Graphite announced that it had commissioned an airborne geophysical survey of its Henry property. The property is made up of six mineral claims and includes 22,850 hectares of land near the community of Southend, Saskatchewan. Based on historical exploration results and proximity to the Deep Bay Deposit, First Graphite believes that the Henry site has the potential to host near-surface graphite deposits containing scarce, large-flake, high purity graphite. First Graphite shares are trading at $0.35 with a 52-week high of $0.63.
Focus Metals Inc. (TSXV: FMS): On April 11, 2012, Focus Metals provided an update on metallurgical testing at its Lac Knife project in Quebec and reported that the deposit held 46.1% large flake graphite and 39% medium flake graphite with an overall global recovery test rate of 85.9%. Focus Metals shares are trading at $0.87 with a 52-week high of $1.33.
Galaxy Capital Corp. (TSXV: GXY): On March 15, 2012, Galaxy Capital announced that it had acquired a 100% interest in the Buckingham graphite property in Quebec. The property consist of two former producing mines and are located in the highly prospective Central Metasedimentary Belt of the Grenville geological province. The two properties cover a total of 1,324 hectares on 22 mining claims. The area is host to many active graphite properties and host rocks for both deposits are graphitic crystalline marbles, similar to the host stratigraphy at Canada’s only producing graphite mine, Timcal’s Lac des Iles. Galaxy Captial shares are trading at $0.16 with a 52-week high of $0.12.
Graphite One Resources Inc. (TSXV: GPH): On March 27, 2012, Graphite One Resources announced changes to its management and board of directors. Anthony Huston who has previously served as Vice President of Business Development at Graphite One Resources was appointed as President. Dean Besserer and Brian Budd were appointed to the board of directors. Mr. Besserer will also continue to serve in his role as Vice President of Exploration and Mr. Budd will serve as an independent board director. Graphite One Resources shares are trading at $0.25 with a 52-week high of $0.41.
Lomiko Metals Inc. (TSXV: LMR): On April 26, 2012, Lomiko Metals announced it will be presenting at the Graphite Express conference where they will outline the 2012 drilling plan for their Quatre Milles graphite project in Quebec. The site was originally staked and explored by Graphicor Resources Inc. in 1989. Historically, the highest individual assay reported was a graphite concentration of 15.48% over 50 meters. Lomiko Metals shares are trading at $0.11 with a 52-week high of $0.18.
Northern Graphite Corp. (TSXV: NGC): On April 10, 2012, Northern Graphite formed a strategic partnership with Panacis Inc. whereby both companies will cooperate in the development and promotion of each other’s products and services with respect to lithium-ion batteries. Northern Graphite shares are trading at $2.33 with a 52-week high of $3.42.
Soldi Ventures Inc. (TSXV: SOV): On April 25, 2012, Soldi Ventures announced the closing of the first tranche of its private placement and the raising of $229,800 at a price of $0.12 per share. The proceeds of the private placement will be used for exploration activities and general working capital. Soldi Venture shares are trading at $0.08 with a 52-week high of $0.26.
Standard Graphite Corp. (TSXV: SGH): On April 26, 2012, Standard Graphite announced it had optioned the Beidelmann-Lyall graphite property in Ontario. Standard Graphite reported it had signed a Mineral Property Option Agreement with Terra Firma Resources Inc. (TSXV: TFR) pursuant to which Terra Firma has been granted an option to earn 100%-interest in the Beidelmann-Lyall graphite project buy making a series of cash payments according to the defined schedule. Standard Graphite shares are trading at $0.46 with a 52-week high of $1.08.
Strike Graphite Corp. (TSXV: SRK): On April 26, 2012, Strike Graphite announced the appointment of Jerry Janik and Jody Dahrouge to its Advisory Board. Mr. Jankin has over 20 years of experience in the mining industry and has been fulfilling the role as General Manager for Ontario Graphite’s Kearney mine that is undergoing a re-commissioning process. Mr. Dahrouge has over 20 years of leadership experience with global mineral exploration and development projects. He has served as senior executive officer, director and/or geologist with a number of publicly traded companies. Strike Graphite shares are trading at $0.35 with a 52-week high of $0.45.
Zenyatta Ventures Ltd. (TSVX: ZEN): On April 23, 2012, Zenyatta Ventures announced that drilling at the Albany graphite property continues to intersect wide zones of graphite breccia. The goal of the current drill campaign is to geologically define graphite breccias delineated by an airborne geophysical conductor with about 4000 meters of wide-spaced drilling over the next two months. Drill hole #3 was drilled in a southerly direction and is located 200 meters north of the original discovery drill hole. Upon passing through limestone the hole immediately intersected graphitic breccia which shows the deposit coming to near surface. Zenyatta Ventures shares are trading at $0.37 with a 52-week high of $0.52.
Uragold Bay Resources Inc. (TSXV: URB): On March 23, 2012, Uragold Bay Resources announced it had signed an agreement to acquire two large flake graphite properties -- the Asbury Graphite Mine and the Canadian Graphite Property. The Asbury property is in Quebec and consists of two claims and the associated mine was operational seasonally between 1980-1989. A historic estimate from 1974 reports 578,000 tonnes averaging 10% large flake graphite for the Asbury mine. The Canadian Graphite Property is also in Quebec. In 1918 a historical estimate reports 168,000 tonnes at 6.15% graphite. Uragold Bay Resources are trading at $0.04 with a 52-week high of $0.05.
Zimtu Capital Corp. (TSXV: ZC): On April 11, 2012, Zimtu Capital and three prospecting partners announced the signing of an agreement with Big North Graphite Group (TSXV: NRT) whereby Big North can earn a 100% interest in the Grand Lac Du Nord Graphite Property located in Quebec. The property consists of one contiguous claim block of 2,009 hectares. Big North intends to launch an exploration campaign beginning with a complete compilation of historic geologic work followed by surface work, trenching and diamond drilling. Zimtu Capital shares are trading at $1.05 with a 52-week high of $1.80. Big North shares are trading at $0.15 with a 52-week high of $0.33.
*Prices taken at 1pm EST 2012-04-26 from Yahoo Finance and Google Finance. All funds CDN unless otherwise noted.
Disclaimer: Focus Metals Inc., Galaxy Capital Corp., Lomiko Metals Inc., Standard Graphite Corp. and Zenyatta Ventures Ltd. are sponsors of GraphiteBlog.
Quelle: http://www.graphiteblog.com/2012/04/...still-recall-with-a.html
warum schlägt sich das aber nicht in einem steigendem kursverlauf wieder?????
kann das jemand beantworten???
COMMENT: Are we in the dawn of the graphene age?
13 April 2012- Industrial Minerals
Graphene is already found in paints and inks, but can its full potential be realised?
Keywords: graphite, graphene, paints, inks, electronics, Focus
The interest surrounding carbon chemistry’s latest wonder material was in plain evidence earlier this week as academics and commercial developers of graphene gathered to pool ideas and showcase their research at the Graphene 2012 conference held in Brussels.
The fabrication of graphene, a two-dimensional monolayer of carbon atoms, has come a long way since it was discovered in 2004 by the Nobel Prize-winning scientists, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov.
While Geim and Novoselov used the ‘scotch tape’ method to extract graphene layers from graphite, new methods have since been developed; with the focus being on the manufacture of pristine, economically scalable graphene for a whole host of potential applications.
“We believe that graphene will have a disruptive impact on technology, and we want to be there when it happens,” said Stephano Borini of the UK’s Nokia Research Centre.
Nokia’s interest in graphene is, according to Borini, as a technology platform from which to develop a variety of “concept devices” including energy harvesters, flexible batteries, supercapacitors and electrotactile touchscreens.
Chun-Yung Sung, from the US technology and consulting corporation IBM, talked delegates through a range of possible uses for graphene – grown on silicon carbide wafers – including flexible e-newspapers and transparent phones.
In addition, Elena Obraztova of the Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS, Russia described how graphene could vastly enhance the spectral range of lasers when compared with those based on carbon nanotubes.
Jesus de la Fuente of Spain’s GRAPHENEA, meanwhile, was optimistic about trends towards using graphene films in batteries.
Commercialisation underway
While graphene has been pejoratively referred to by sceptics as ‘Star Trek stuff’, it would appear that some developers of the material are already orbiting in the nearer reaches of the solar system.
Indeed, graphene can be found in highly-resistant aircraft paints and security-sensitive packaging in US supermarkets.
UK-based company Haydale Ltd, which uses bespoke Split Plasma technology to characterise carbon nano-materials, revealed that it was supplying graphene to developers of coatings used by the likes of NASA, Airbus and Boeing.
Christy Martin from Maryland, US-based Vorbeck Materials Corp., explained how the company’s graphene-based inks, produced under a licence from Princeton University, are being used to provide anti-theft protection for everyday consumer items such as meat, CDs and razor blades.
Such applications might be a far cry from sensory touchscreens and transparent cell phones but both Haydale and Vorbeck argue that their products are evidence of graphene’s accessibility as a material that can be manufactured and used cost-effectively for practical purposes.
Hatching the golden egg
With significant sums being ploughed into graphene research all over the world, Canada-based company Grafoid Inc.’s Dr Gordon Chiu contended that it was unwise to view graphene as bullion in itself.
“Our goal is not to make money out of selling graphene as graphene,” Chiu, Grafoid’s VP, explained, “but to buffer and co-develop applications using the material.”
In Grafoid’s view, it is not graphene’s golden egg but rather what can be hatched from it that is really valuable.
Chiu even suggested that selling graphene as a raw material may actually hinder the process of commercialising the material because it added another step to the value chain; making subsequent products prohibitively expensive.
Grafoid Inc. is a 40% owned subsidiary of Canadian graphite junior Focus Metals Inc., which is developing the Lac Knife deposit in Quebec.
This arrangement, which gives Grafoid control over its graphene raw material source, is –according to Chiu – what will make the company uniquely competitive in the business. However, Focus’ high purity graphene is unlikely to come online until the end of 2013.
Cautious optimism
Despite the confidence placed by many investors and researchers in graphene’s potentially game- changing qualities, some participants at the Brussels conference remained cautious about the graphene golden goose.
A representative of Haydale Ltd expressed scepticism about the hype surrounding invisible, super- fast electronic components.
Others queried the environmental impact of the reduced graphite oxide (RGO) and chemical vapour deposition (CVD) methods for manufacturing graphene, which could cast a shadow over the material’s clean-tech image.
There is also the unsolved and unique problem of graphene’s lack of a band gap; the gap between the energy of an electron when it is bound to an atom, and the conduction band where it is free to move around.
On one hand this is a positive property, allowing for unique energy abilities, but on the other it means graphene cannot be used in transistors – its lack of band gap means it does not provide the isolation necessary to be used as an on-off switch.
What is not lacking, however, is a passionate enthusiasm to realise graphene’s promise, with academics and companies alike now aligning themselves for the dawn of the graphene age.
Quelle: http://www.stockhouse.com/Bullboards/...=2&s=FMS&t=LIST
From today's Industrial Minerals
Commercialising graphene
May 2012
A universally acceptable standard for graphene, which retains most or all of its high purity and energy properties, could arguably come from a graphite source that has undergone little modification. Grafoid Inc’s Dr. Gordon Chiu outlines the case.
Graphene’s material capabilities provide the material sciences community with a tremendous opportunity to change the world.
Discovered in 2004 by a simple mechanical process using Scotch Tape, graphene, derived from graphite, is a single atom thick sheet of sp2 hybridized carbon atoms.
In 2010, the discovery of graphene won a Nobel Prize for its discoverers and has since been part of intense scientific research as a wonder material because of its significant mechanical, electrical and thermal properties.
Graphene’s existence provides opportunities to enhance structures, improve energy storage and benefit our lives from myriad enhanced, future technologies. Graphene’s properties exceed those of graphite’s thermal, electrical and mechanical properties.
Due to its expensive production costs, graphene’s commercialisation will come once mass production processes make it affordable - and specifically tailored to suit unique application requirements.
For example, a graphene material required for microprocessors would require different engineering than a graphene material for lithium batteries, or a graphene material for biomedical nano-structural, or a polymer-based application.
In a recent speech to the graphene community in Brussels, I proposed the adoption of a global standard for economically scalable graphene as a prerequisite to resolving the affordability issue.
While the material science world has been focused on discovering and developing downstream applications, Grafoid focused on two key contributing elements, namely: a reliable scalable graphene process that is economically affordable and reproducible, and; a particular graphite source, Focus Graphite’s Lac Knife, Quebec, high grade deposit.
Most graphene derived from graphite used for application development during the last eight years has been crushed, pulverized, oxidised, reduced and leeched by strong acids. This graphene is called reduced graphene oxide and has sacrificed some of the unique qualities of graphene (ie. electrical) in order to achieve scalability. This is not an acceptable solution.
In Grafoid’s search for the optimal solution, one of our leading investment projects resulted in a breakthrough high-energy bilayer and trilayer graphene from a safe, non-destructive graphite extraction process creating an economically scalable, sustainable solution.
Using a high quality, high concentrate graphite source assisted in the optimisation of, and the creation of a universally applicable, agnostic process.
Grafoid invests and manages investments in high-growth, scalable graphene projects, patents and material applications.
We bring knowledge in graphene, resolve scalability issues, tailor our graphene for unique applications, and; we provide solutions for achieving success.
We also provide technical advisory and consulting services for graphene and its chemistry to miners, suppliers, manufacturers and processors of graphene materials.??
Towards monetising graphene?
Because of Grafoid’s unique relationship with Focus Graphite, we embraced a notion and came to understand that downstream benefits could be built upon an upstream foundation of a graphite source and a viable process.
Along the way, fate and nature intervened resulting in the creation of a mineral and scientific knowledge base which will lead us to commercial breakthroughs and, in time, the monetisation of nature’s new wonder material, graphene.
As chief scientist for Focus Graphite and a co-founder and vice president of Grafoid, our two companies enjoy a mutually beneficial relationship in both scientific and business terms. The result: we have the potential to effect change in graphene applications.
In our particular investment, graphene building blocks derived from super-concentrate graphite deposits (any deposit with greater than 15% graphite) can be used to create affordable constructs for a variety of uses in carbon-based nanostructures.
Focus Graphite holds such a deposit. The highly ordered layers in the structure of Focus Graphite’s 16% graphite deposit - similar to highly ordered pyrolytic graphite (h.o.p.g.) - was key. Our relationship provided a foundation that enabled Grafoid to invest in and manage the investment in a novel exfoliation and transformation process that produces a unique kind of graphene.
The result is a scalable approach for a high quality graphene that maintains its highly conductive properties because it works not only on the super-concentrate deposit, but any source of flake graphite with concentrations greater than 15%.
The key, cost-mitigating elements are the source mated to a novel process. Transforming Focus Graphite’s high-grade, raw, unprocessed ore - directly to graphene - created a cost saving never before accomplished.
In our view, a universally acceptable standard for graphene might start by consideration of a non-crushed, non-pulverized graphite source resulting in the retention of all or most of its original, naturally formed, high-purity, high-energy properties.
A collaborative approach
One of the logical applications of graphite - and now, graphene - is lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries.
Since 1984, graphite’s properties of delivering good cycle life as the anode in lithium batteries has been the subject of intense scientific study and global implementation. The exact theoretical capacity being 372mAh/gram.
Application research and development of next generation lithium batteries found that few layer graphene (FLG) can provide 500-600mAh/gram as graphene anodes.
The difficulty among battery manufacturers has been finding the right graphene supplier. In addition to having the lowest cost graphene, this material must not only be optimised, but tailored to shape, size and formulation. Grafoid’s objective is to resolve tailoring issues via partnering.
We are confident in our investment and welcome downstream partnerships in our collective search for the perfect combination of cathode, electrolyte, membrane and tailored graphene anode.
Since assuming my duties with Focus Graphite just over a year ago, I brought with me the collective vision of bankers, chemists, chemical engineers, physicists, and politicians.
Together we agreed that graphene production should be safe, environmentally sustainable and as impactful as graphene’s first achievement in the Nobel Prize accomplishment for Physics in 2010.
Today, I can say our collaborative group has been joined by academics, commercial and industrial partners who share the same belief and interest in working together to create world-changing graphene applications that are affordable in all sectors.
It is important, if not critical to our future success that we look to the past and learn from our mistakes by adopting a sweeping determination to avoid failure.
Carbon nanotubes consumed a decade in time and effort and nearly a trillion dollars worth of investment. It culminated in lost research opportunities for a better ‘wonder material’.
We need to develop a better understanding of what is important to the graphene R&D community. And we have a primary responsibility not to doom ourselves to another decade of failure.
In less than a year and with a budget of thousands of dollars - not millions - we have begun creating the benchmarks for economically scalable, pristine graphene.
We did so because a junior Canadian graphite mining developer had the vision to investigate the properties of its mineral resource at a time when our community was consumed almost exclusively with application development but recognized the need for an upstream partner.
The challenge for scientists today is to aim for a
.50/lb production cost for pristine graphene in the future, down from its current stratospheric price of $20,000/lb.
While we are still years away from achieving that goal, eliminating costs is the key to any kind of commercial success for graphene in the future. Our industry is light years ahead of the markets.
Monetising graphene, in our view, begins with a qualifying standard or universal benchmark that leads to the de-risking of early-stage investments.
Lowering graphene’s costs while maintaining a high-quality product is a foundational first step to closing the gap between research and investment.?
Quelle: http://www.stockhouse.com/Bullboards/...=2&s=FMS&t=LIST
Why Graphite is the High Tech Commodity of the Future
by Dr. Alex Cowie on 27 April 2012
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This is a commodity that drove the last bull market and made Australian investors rich. But it won’t be the commodity that drives the NEXT bull market.
In fact, it’s getting harder for Aussie resource investors to find new areas of the market to make money from. Mainstream commodities are well known, and often the easy money has been made already.
The good news I want to bring to you is that there is a new generation of investing opportunities in the world of strategic minerals..
Link: http://www.moneymorning.com.au/20120427/...mmodity-of-the-future.html
Canadian graphite producers prepare for boom
PAV JORDAN — MINING REPORTER
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
Published Tuesday, May. 01, 2012 7:30PM EDT
Move over rare earths – graphite is the new darling of the mining industry.
Canadian graphite miners are angling to be high-end suppliers to the global lithium ion battery market, where companies such as LG, Samsung, Mitsubishi and Hitachi are fuelling growing demand for new technologies ranging from smartphones and laptops to electric cars..
Link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/...boom/article2419656/
Da haben die von Goldinvest wohl die australische Focus Minerals mit Focus Metals verwechselt, oder liege ich da falsch? 
allerdings
das kann ja mal passieren so als Privatmann... man kennt sich ja schließlich nicht so aus ...
dass Goldinvest nun mal kein kleiner Privatmann ist... nun ja... das muss man halt nicht so eng sehen...
Ein weiterer Grund dafür dass sich Focus einen neuen Namen geben sollte...
am besten einen Namen von dem direkt auf Graphit geschlossen kann
die Bedeutung und Verwendung von Graphite: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/03/...+03-May-2012+HUG20120503
@ Suppenkasper: Jau, habe das Thema gestern schon im SGH Thread angesprochen.. das wurde wohl verwechselt ;)
ich hoffe
dass die höchst wahrscheinlich positive Nachricht,
nicht durch die Franz-Wahl am Wochenende und den dadurch noch zusätzlich ansteigenden Turbulenzen des Gesamtmarktes untergeht ... !!
ich nehme nämlich an
dass bei Wahl der Sozialisten in Fronkreisch
in Euroland
die Ära der Sparpolitik vorerst in den Ruhestand geschickt wird...
(Old-Germany wohl anfangs noch ausgenommen)...
weiterhin vermute ich,
dass der Markt,
(leider)
ab Montag und die kommende Woche einknicken...
und rund um den Globus ein Bäuerchen machen wird...
allerdings wirklich nur kurz,
denn mit dem Signal
die Philosophie des europäischen Kaputtsparens vorerst aufs Eis zu legen,
dürfte für die FED (endgültig) Motivation genug sein,
mit QE3 (weil US-Wahl ansteht) den Markt zu fluten...
egal aber wie der Gesamtmarkt sich in der nächsten Zeit entwickelt,
m. E. hält Focus niemand mehr auf...
Gruß
ixurt
Nasdaq OTC Other -29,04% ??
man... man... man...
in Kanada ist allerdings noch immer trading halt...
http://de.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=FMS.V
hat jemand noch andere Infos... bzw. einen Link für einen RT- Kurs ?
Yes, sehr spannende Sache - es ist lange her, dass Focus einen Trading Halt hatte. Es war dennoch anzunehmen, dass so etwas am Tag der AGM kommen würde, und die fand gestern statt..
Von den news her steht viel Mögliches an, z.B. Scoping Study, Offtake Agreement, JV-Partner (Grafoid), mining permits, wide district exploration program etc.
Graphite proving resilient in tough markets, constrained supply expected
http://blog.agoracom.com/2012/05/04/...acom+(Agoracom+Small-Cap+Blog)
Okay, war klar, dass ne Aussetzung hier auch stattfindet... Nur eine Sache verwundert mich.. Um 8:00 Uhr hatte ich geguckt auf allen deutschen Börsenplätzen, sprich Frankfurt, Stuttgart, München und Tradegate, wo FMS gelistet ist. Alles okay! Nun fehlt plötzlich (8:50 Uhr) "München und Tradegate" als Börsenplatz? Liegt das an meinem Broker oder was ist da los?
Der Großen gehen Sammeln! Top Agreement mit Hydroquebec!
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/...sx-venture-fms-1653417.htm
OTCQX: FCSMF
FRANKFURT: FKC
Konzentrieren Sie Metals Inc.
Hydro Quebec
Hydro Quebec
7. Mai 2012 08.30 Uhr ET
Fokus Metalle und Hydro-Quebec IREQ Anmelden Graphite Purification Technology Agreement und Anodenproduktion Vereinbarung für Li-Ion Akkus
Montreal, Quebec und OTTAWA, ONTARIO - (Marketwire - 7. Mai 2012) - Focus Metals Inc. (TSX-V: FMS) (OTCQX: FCSMF) (FRANKFURT: FKC) und Hydro-Québec weltweit führende Forschungsinstitut, IREQ, gab heute die Unterzeichnung einer Lizenzvereinbarung ermöglicht Fokus Metals, eine Graphit-Reinigungsanlage und eine Graphit-Anode Produktionsstätte für Lithium-Ionen-(Li-Ion) Batterien zu entwickeln.
Eine neue, Focus-prozentige Anlage wird transformieren ersten Produktion von Focus Metals Graphit 'Lac Knife (Québec) hochgradige Lagerstätte, um die Batterie-Grade-Material bezogen.
Der Lizenzvertrag ist in zwei Teile. Der erste Teil wird im Zusammenhang mit Metals Entwicklung eines Graphit Reinigungsprozess, der Lac Messers verarbeitet Graphit bringt bis 99,95% Kohlenstoff für den Einsatz in Lithium-Batterie-Anwendungen konzentrieren. Die Verarbeitung umfasst sphärische Formgebung sowie thermische und chemische Reinigung. Der zweite Teil der Vereinbarung sieht für die Herstellung von Anoden für Lithium-Ionen-Batterien.
IREQ wird technische Unterstützung und kooperieren in Zukunft Material und Verarbeitung technologische Verbesserungen.
Fokus Metals, President und CEO Gary Economo, sagte der neue Reinigungs-und Produktionsstätten in Québec errichtet werden und wird besessen und betrieben von Focus Metals. Die neue Anlage wird Reinigung konzipiert, werden vorbehaltlich positiven wirtschaftlichen Analyse, auf 15.000 Tonnen von sphärischen Batterie-grade Lamellengraphit zu Spitzenzeiten zu produzieren, bis 2015, während die Anode Produktionsstätte wird die für die Erzeugung von bis zu 5.000 Tonnen Anoden werden. Die genauen Kosten der Einrichtungen und die Finanzierung erforderlich sind noch nicht bestimmt werden.
Im Tausch für die Technologie-Lizenz, technologische Unterstützung und zukünftige Verarbeitung Verbesserungen wird IREQ erhalten eine Lizenzgebühr, die in bar über einen Zeitraum von drei Jahren gezahlt werden, die weniger als 10% des aktuellen Working Capital sowie eine Lizenzgebühr basierend auf einem Prozentsatz der zukünftigen Umsatz.
"Diese Vereinbarung stellt einen großen und wichtigen Meilenstein für uns, da wir durch die Vorkonfiguration der Entwicklung bis zur Produktion unserer Lac Knife-Technologie Graphit Anzahlung zu bewegen", sagte Herr Economo. "Darüber hinaus ist die Ehe von Focus der Québec-basierte, Weltklasse-Graphit-Einzahlung auf das in Quebec ansässige Weltmarktführer bei der Verarbeitung von Technologien, besonders im Akku-Anode Produktion Willen verlassen Fokus Metals gut positioniert, um seinen Platz als Qualitäts-Lieferant für die sichere schnell wachsenden Lithiumbatterie verarbeitenden Gewerbe. "
"Insbesondere stellt diese Vereinbarung zu unserem Ziel, die kostengünstigste Technologie Graphit-Produzent der Welt stärkt," Mr. Economo aufgenommen. "Um eine all-Québec Technologie Vereinbarung mit einem weltweit führender Anbieter von Graphit-Anode Entwicklung und Patentierung haben ein gutes Omen für unsere Aktionäre."
Herr Economo fuhr fort zu sagen, dass die Batterie-Grade-Prozess in den Lac Knife Preliminary Economic Assessment fällig im Juni 2012 aufgenommen werden.
Fokus Metals ist der 100% Eigentümer des Lac Knife Kaution, die 4,9 Millionen Tonnen gemessene und angezeigte Ressourcen mit einem Gehalt von 16% Kohlenstoff als Graphit (CGR) und 3,0 Millionen Tonnen abgeleitete Ressourcen mit einem Gehalt von 16% Cgr enthält (siehe NI 43-101 - konformen technischen Bericht über die Ressourcenschätzung auf SEDAR), wird der Großteil davon für den Einsatz in der Technologie-Anwendungen gedacht.
IREQ ist weltweit als führender Technologie-Quelle für erneuerbare Energien Lösungen anerkannt.
"Wir glauben, dass das hochwertige Graphit des Lac Knife Eigenschaft, mit unseren Graphit Reinigung und Gestaltung Technologien verbunden sind, wird ein qualitativ hochwertiges Produkt für Lithium-Ionen-Batterie-Anwendungen liefern", sagte Karim Zaghib, Director - Energiespeicherung und-wandlung bei IREQ.
Über IREQ
Hydro-Québec Forschungsinstitut, IREQ, ist ein weltweiter Marktführer in der Entwicklung fortschrittlicher Materialien für Batterien herstellen und Designs modernsten Verfahren in seiner State-of-the-art Einrichtungen. IREQ hält mehr als 100 Patente und 15 Lizenzen für Batterie-Materialien, die von einigen der weltweit erfolgreichsten Hersteller von Batterie-und Materiallieferanten verwendet werden. Die Beiträge tragen dazu bei, sichere und leistungsstarke Lithium-Ionen-Batterien, die schneller geladen werden können und eine größere Anzahl von Zeiten zu entwickeln. IREQ fungiert auch als Lead-Partner mit privatwirtschaftlichen Unternehmen in Québec basierend auf EV und HEV-Ladestationen zur Stützung seiner technologischen Entwicklungen zu bauen. Es fördert die offene Innovation und Partnern von Privatfirmen, Universitäten, Behörden und Forschungszentren, sowohl in Québec und im Ausland. Diese Partnerschaften ermöglichen IREQ zu entwickeln, zu industrialisieren und zu vermarkten, die Technologien, die sich aus ihrer Innovationsprojekte.
Über Hydro-Québec
Hydro-Québec ist Kanadas größte Stromproduzent und zählt zu den weltweit führenden Stromerzeuger aus Wasserkraft. Darüber hinaus überträgt und verteilt Elektrizität. Alleiniger Gesellschafter ist die Regierung von Québec. Er verwendet hauptsächlich erneuerbaren Erzeugungsanlagen Optionen, insbesondere Wasserkraft, und unterstützt die Entwicklung der Windenergie durch Ankäufe von unabhängigen Stromproduzenten. Sein Forschungsinstitut, IREQ, forscht und entwickelt im Bereich der Energieeffizienz, Energiespeicherung und anderen energetischen Felder. Hydro-Québec investiert 100 Millionen Dollar pro Jahr in Forschung.
Über Fokus Metals
Konzentrieren Sie Metals Inc. ist ein aufstrebendes Mid-Tier-Junior-Bergbauunternehmen, ein Technologie-Lösungen und Anbieter ein Business Innovator. Der Eigentümer des hochwertigem (16%)-Technologie Graphit-Ressource in der Welt. Das Ziel des Unternehmens ist es, eine dominierende Führungsposition auszubauen, indem er der kostengünstigste Produzent von Technologie-Graphit zu übernehmen. Als technologie-orientierte Unternehmen im Hinblick auf den Aufbau langfristiger, nachhaltiger Shareholder Value, wird der Fokus Metals in der Entwicklung von Graphen und Patente durch Grafoid Inc. investiert
Forward-Looking Statements
Diese Pressemeldung enthält möglicherweise oder beziehen sich auf "zukunftsgerichtete Aussagen", Die Erwartungen des Managements widerspiegeln bezüglich Fokus Metals zukünftiges Wachstum, Ergebnisse von Operationen, Leistung und Geschäftsaussichten und Chancen. Diese Aussagen spiegeln die gegenwärtigen Überzeugungen zum Zeitpunkt der Veröffentlichung dieser Pressemitteilung und basieren auf derzeit verfügbaren Informationen Management. Alle Aussagen außer Angaben historischer Tatsachen in dieser Pressemitteilung enthalten sind, einschließlich, ohne darauf beschränkt, Aussagen hinsichtlich potenzieller Mineralisierung und Reserven, Explorationsergebnisse sowie zukünftiger Pläne und Ziele des Unternehmens, sind zukunftsgerichtete Aussagen, die verschiedene Risiken und Unwägbarkeiten unterliegen. Es kann keine Zusicherung, dass solche Aussagen sich als richtig, und die tatsächlichen Ergebnisse und zukünftigen Ereignisse könnten wesentlich von den in diesen Aussagen angenommen werden. Wichtige Faktoren, aufgrund derer die tatsächlichen Ergebnisse erheblich von den Erwartungen des Managements konnten, sind die hierin angegebenen Explorationsrisiken und von Zeit zu Zeit in den Berichten der Gesellschaft mit Wertpapieraufsichtsbehörden gemacht detailliert. Während das Unternehmen geht davon aus, dass spätere Ereignisse und Entwicklungen können dazu führen, seine Ansichten zu ändern, lehnt aber explizit jegliche Verpflichtung, diese zukunftsgerichteten Aussagen zu aktualisieren, es sei denn in Übereinstimmung mit den geltenden Wertpapiergesetzen. Dementsprechend sind Leser darauf hingewiesen, kein übermässiges Vertrauen auf vorausschauende Informationen zu platzieren.
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Kontakt Information
Gary Economo, Präsident und CEO
Konzentrieren Sie Metals Inc.
Ottawa
613-691-1091 ext. 101
gary@focusmetals.ca
www.focusmetals.ca
Louis-Olivier Batty, Media Relations
Hydro-Quebec
514-289-4214
batty.louis-Olivier @ hydro.qc.ca
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