I have read a number of posts recently purporting to tell us why the PEA is delayed. It boils down to this: difficulty to purify material; destruction of large flakes and the need to carry out new drilling in spriing in order to make more material.

Well I for one think that these issues are false and that the proponents don't know what they are talking about.

1) Flake size is important in determining how pure one is able to subsequently get the graphite, provided you are dealing with flake graphite.

2) Purity alone is sufficient provided you can achieve very high levels, say 99.9% or higher, unfortunately flake producers can only do that with very large flakes.

3) Crystallinity is a critical property for electrical resistivity, density etc BUT it is independent of flake size and therefore is not affected by processing, it is an intrinsic property which is determined by how the material was made orginally millions of years ago in our case.

4) ZEN has clearly demonstrated very high purity 99.97-99.99%

5) ZEN has near perfect crystallinity and as good or better than synthetic

Therefore, while I have no idea whether ZEN will drill anymore holes or needs more samples for end users, what I do know is that by demonstrating the ability to highly purify its material, its high crystallinity and particle sizes in the range used by battery manufacturers after processing, I believe that the above posters are merely trying to instill doubt and fear in people and have no clue what they are talking about.

I am still long on ZEN