Zentek’s (TSX-V:ZEN) Albany Graphite Project in Ontario, Canada, has returned a US$3.85 billion ($5.45 billion) after-tax net present value in a Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) prepared by Micon International.
The PEA evaluated the project’s integrated production pathway, encompassing resource extraction, flotation processing, and fluidised bed reactor purification.
The integrated production pathway intends to produce ‘ultra-high-purity’ graphite products for nuclear, defence, and strategic critical mineral supply chains.
Using a 5% discount rate, the PEA returned a pre-tax net present value of US$4.18 billion.
This indicates an internal rate of return of 27.7% pre-tax and 27.4% after-tax, with the after-tax payback period set at 4.4 years.
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