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Western Australia has resources of

over 3.6 Mt of contained total
Mines, deposits, prospects graphitic carbon
and occurrences Wyndham

Mine (operating, proposed or shut) Kununurra Ÿ Recorded historic production is 219 t of

graphite, mainly from Munglinup
Deposit
Prospect Corkwood Ÿ The majority of occurrences are in Archean
Derby
Occurrence McIntosh to Mesoproterozoic graphitic schists or
Broome gneisses (representing metamorphosed
Processing plant Fitzroy Crossing Halls Creek
carbonaceous sedimentary rocks) in mostly
Highway / major road
flake and ‘amorphous’ varieties
Town
Ÿ There are sporadic vein-hosted occurrences,
Port Hedland associated with Proterozoic pegmatites and
paragneisses (e.g. Ajana)
Karratha
Marble Bar Defined resources:
Ÿ Munglinup
Exmouth Ÿ McIntosh
Ÿ Springdale
Black Forest Ÿ Yalbra
Newman
The Munglinup Project has recently had a
definitive feasibility study completed to
produce 52 ktpa of graphite concentrate over
Big Bend
Carnarvon a 14-year mine life. Probable Ore Reserves for
Yalbra the project are 4.24 Mt at 12.8% total graphitic
Coordewandy carbon. The graphite concentrate product is to
Meekatharra Wiluna be exported from the port of Fremantle
Ÿ A new state-of-the-art facility to produce
battery-grade graphite is to be built in
Dalgaranga
Ajana Mt Magnet
Leinster Kwinana. The EcoGraf plant will process
Laverton
natural flake graphite for lithium–ion
Geraldton Northern Gully Leonora batteries. Currently, China is the only large-
scale producer of battery-grade graphite
Ÿ International Graphite Pty Ltd has been
awarded $2 million from the State
Coolgardie Kagoorlie–Boulder
Government to establish the Collie graphite
Southern Cross
hub. A definitive feasibility study to build a
PERTH Greenhills
Eucla new micronizing and graphite foil
EcoGraf Henderson graphite plant Norseman manufacturing facility was completed in
2020
Collie graphite hub
Bunbury Munglinup 200 km
Esperance

Donnelly River Springdale

Albany

219 t $388 m* 5.0%

Historical Investment Royalty
production projects rate

$
(2020–21 financial year)
* Includes projects planned, possible, committed or under construction as of October 2021

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 Graphite resources ranked by contained graphite (kt)
Resources estimated according to JORC 2012

Project Status Owner Resources Av. grade Contained Resource

TGC (Mt) TGC (%) TGC (kt) date
McIntosh Feasibility Hexagon Energy Materials 23.8 4.5 1059 05/04/2019
Munglinup Feasibility Mineral Commodities, Gold Terrace 8.0 12.2 973 08/01/2020
Springdale Exploration Comet Resources 15.6 6.0 936 06/12/2018
Yalbra Exploration Buxton Resources 4.0 16.2 650 24/10/2014
Resource estimates have been rounded TOTAL 51.4 3619
Abbreviation: TGC, total graphitic carbon

Graphite prospectivity of Western Australia

Ÿ Flake and amorphous graphite in regionally metamorphosed metasedimentary rocks of Archean
and Proterozoic terranes (e.g. the majority of Western Australia's graphite deposits, including
Yalbra, McIntosh and Munglinup)
Ÿ Flake graphite deposits hosted in veins associated with pegmatites and paragneisses in
Proterozoic terranes (e.g. Ajana region, Northampton Inlier)
Ÿ Disseminated flake graphite hosted in weathered pegmatites (e.g. Katanning)
Properties and uses
Ÿ Graphite is a naturally occurring crystalline form of carbon
Ÿ It does not react with other materials and is an excellent conductor of electricity and heat
Ÿ Applications and uses include pencils, lubricants, brake lining and clutches, lithium-ion batteries,
fuel cells, vanadium redox-flow batteries, and in the aerospace industry
Ÿ Medium- to coarse-grained graphite is particularly useful in batteries, when >150 microns long

Graphene, termed ‘the world’s next wonder Graphite prospectivity in Western Australia is
material’, comprises a series of one-atom thick outlined in the DMIRS publication Graphite in
sheets of graphite. © gettyimages We s t e r n A u s t r a l i a , a v a i l a b l e a s a f r e e
downloadable PDF from the DMIRS bookshop
(www.dmirs.wa.gov.au/ebookshop)

For more information Contact us

www.dmirs.wa.gov.au/gswa Sarah Sargent

Geological Survey and Resource Strategy Division
MINEDEX www.dmirs.wa.gov.au/minedex
Email: [email protected]
GeoVIEW.WA www.dmirs.wa.gov.au/geoview Tel: +61 8 9222 3890

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