RNU: Battery-Grade Purified Spherical Graphite Produced
Original announcement by asx on
- Company
- Renascor Resources Limited
- Ticker
- RNU
- Exchange
- ASX
- Region
- South Australia
- Primary commodity
- Graphite
- Secondary commodities
- None reported
- Document categories
- Metallurgy
- Extracted
- 2026-10-06 23:14:10 UTC
Analysis by Minestarters Atlas
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Summary
Renascor has successfully produced battery-grade purified spherical graphite (PSG) with 99.97% carbon purity at its demonstration plant in Adelaide. This milestone validates the scale-up of their HF-free purification process using third-party graphite to establish performance benchmarks.
Reasoning: Successful demonstration-scale production of battery-grade purified spherical graphite (PSG) validates the company's proprietary HF-free technology.
Positive factors
- Achieved battery-grade purity (99.97% C) at demonstration scale
- Validates HF-free purification process scale-up
- Supports customer engagement and offtake discussions
- Uses third-party graphite to benchmark performance
Negative factors
- Trials used third-party graphite rather than Siviour graphite for this specific milestone
Facts used in scoring: 1
Classification and evidence
Mill Routeneutral
Processing via mill or concentrator (CIL, CIP, tank leach, flotation).
Why it applies: The process involves an integrated purification circuit/flowsheet at a demonstration plant.
Evidence · text
“integrated purification flowsheet”
Single Domain Onlynegative
Testing limited to one composite or domain — representativeness not established.
Why it applies: only one composite was tested
Extracted facts
Stored fact records: 1. Some facts used in scoring do not have a stored record.
Metallurgical Results (1)
batch trialsSiviour Graphite Deposit · graphiteView all detailsHide details
Identity
- Project
- Siviour Graphite Deposit
- Commodity
- graphite
- Region
- australia_sa
- Reported Region
- South Australia
- Ticker
- RNU
Test Work
- Program Status
- detailed
- Test Type
- batch trials
- Processing Route
- integrated HF-free purification flowsheet
- Sample
- third-party spherical graphite batch trials at demonstration plant
Recovery
- Recovery Basis
- actual_test
- Conc. Grade
- 99.97
- Conc. Grade Unit
- % carbon
Reagents
- Reagent Notes
- integrated HF-free purification process
Review
- Needs Review
- No
- Historical
- No
Dates
- Event date
- 2026-10-06T00:00:00.000Z
Reasoning: High purity achieved at demonstration scale using an integrated HF-free circuit.
Positive factors
- Achieved 99.97% purity
- Demonstration scale validation
Evidence · text
“achieving purity of 99.97% carbon”
How Atlas produces this analysis
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