Renascor Purified Spherical Graphite Facility, Bolivar

The downstream half of Renascor Resources' vertically integrated Battery Anode Material project in South Australia: an operating Purified Spherical Graphite (PSG) demonstration plant, officially opened on 23 July 2026 and co-funded by an A$5 million Commonwealth grant under the International Partnerships in Critical Minerals Program, and the planned commercial-scale PSG facility at Bolivar, near Port Adelaide, covered by Export Finance Australia's conditionally approved A$185 million Critical Minerals Facility loan. Renascor's HF-free purification route combines sulfuric acid leaching with a low-temperature caustic bake and a reagent-recycling water treatment circuit, targeting battery-grade 99.95% carbon or better. One precision worth keeping: the demonstration plant is not on the Bolivar site — Renascor leased a 1,250 square metre industrial warehouse north of Adelaide, proximate to Bolivar, where it intends to build the full-scale commercial facility. No source loaded this pass states a tonnes-per-year capacity for either the demonstration plant or the commercial facility, so no capacity claim is recorded; the 60,000 tpa figure in Renascor's offtake framework is a non-binding sales volume, not plant capacity. The split of the commercial facility into separate purification and particle-shaping lines is inferred from the described conversion of graphite concentrate into Purified Spherical Graphite; no loaded source states the flowsheet order.

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