ORNL researchers created and tested two methods for transforming coal into the scarce mineral graphite, which is used in batteries for electric vehicles and renewable energy storage.

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The ash that's left is not rich enough in carbon to produce graphite, Lara-Curzio said. Coal refuse from mines and processing plants is typically made of fine particles too small to burn or low ...

ORNL’s electrochemical process creates graphite from coal byproducts at 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit. This contrasts with the conventional method, which requires temperatures over 4,000 degrees ...

In today’s Daily on Energy, we explore a newly approved graphite mining project in Alaska that will be covered by the federal government’s fast-track permitting program, also known as FAST-41.

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The US Geological Survey lists 50 minerals designated as “critical.”Some, such as lithium or graphite, are well known but many are obscure (looking at you ytterbium).

State-run coal behemoth Coal India has secured a graphite block, a critical mineral asset, in Madhya Pradesh. It would be the company’s first ever non-coal mineral mining venture.

True, it's an allotrope (so, we've coal, graphite, diamond and graphene, all are just carbon but different arrangements of atoms) and as above, we prefer that natural graphite in some battery uses.