The project area is situated in the Usagaran of the Mozambique belt and consists of graphitic gneisses and schists interpreted to occur along the flanks of various anti- and synforms in the area with the lithological units dipping at between 15 and 50 degrees to the NW and SE.

Weathered ore and waste will be excavated using a hydraulic shovel and loaded onto dump trucks for hauling out of the pit. Fresh ore and waste will be drilled and blasted before being loaded and hauled in a similar manner.

In order to achieve a high-grade feed to the mill, three discrete ore streams are mined, a low-grade stream (0% to 10% TGC material), a medium grade stream (10% to 20% TGC material) and a high-grade stream (+20% TGC ore). The low-grade material with a grade of around 6% TGC is stockpiled alongside the pit and not transported to the mill. This ore can be available for later treatment, blending or be sold to other parties.

The proposed flowsheet consists of the following primary activities:
- ROM Bin and Apron Feeder.
- Crushing - a primary jaw crusher and secondary cone crusher.
- Drum Scrubber with Trommel Screen (Trommel Screen Oversize to Secondary Crushing).
- Milling – a primary rod mill.
- Sequential Rougher/Scavenger Flotation.
- Regrind cleaner flotation – four stages of concentrate attrition regrinding and cleaner flotation.
- Filtration and concentrate drying.
- Screening of final product concentrate.
- Bagging of concentrate.

The plant has been sized for a feed of 300 thousand tons per annum (ktpa) of ore with a grade of >16% Total Graphitic Carbon (TGC), to produce 40 ktpa of graphite flake concentrate with an average grade of 97% TGC. This corresponds to a graphitic carbon recovery of about 85%. The design basis was 1,000 tons of ore per day for 300 days per year (50 weeks, 6 days per week, with an availability of 92% giving a running ........