The ASX’s only graphite producer, Bass Metals, is hoping to have its Graphmada project, in Madagascar, produce at nameplate capacity of 6 000 t/y by the second quarter of 2017.
Bass CEO Tim McManus told Mining Weekly Online on the sidelines of the Africa Downunder conference, that production at Graphmada had recently reached 3 600 t/y, which was already an improvement on the 1 500 t produced in 2015.