South Star Battery Metals Corp.

Highlights: Positive National Instrument 43-101 Preliminary Economic Assessment for the BamaStar Mine and Concentrator Plant in Coosa County, AL and a value-add upgrading plant in Mobile, AL. The natural flake graphite concentrate precursor material for the value-add plant will come from South Star's BamaStar and Santa Cruz Mines, which is now in Phase 1 operations in Brazil. First production for BamaStar is planned by [...]

Highlights: Commissioning is complete at Santa Cruz Phase 1 Graphite Mine in Bahia, Brazil, and first one tonne product has been placed in the bulk bag. Commercial production will ramp-up in October with first product shipments expected by end of October. Phase 1 construction and commissioning was completed as Santa Cruz team approaches 286,488 manhours and 678 days without a loss-time accident. As-builts and a [...]

Advancing the First New Natural-Flake Graphite Mine in the Americas this Century South Star Battery Metals Corp. is pleased to announce that, further to the Company's May 6, 2024 announcement and its August 1, 2024 announcement , South Star has executed another binding commercial sales agreement for an initial 40 tonnes of natural-flake graphite concentrate from the Company's flagship Santa Cruz Graphite Mine, located in [...]

South Star advancing the first new natural-flake graphite mine in the Americas this century. South Star Battery Metals Corp. is pleased to announce that further to the Company's May 6, 2024 announcement , South Star has executed another binding commercial sales agreement for the initial purchase of 100 tonnes of graphite concentrate from the Company's flagship Santa Cruz Graphite Mine , located in northeastern Brazil's [...]

Highlights: Mine prestrip, preliminary dump foundations and ramps are complete, and approximately 50,000 tonnes of ore is being placed on the ore pad by end of August for commissioning and initial operations. The following plant areas are substantially complete, and commissioning of the equipment is underway: Primary and secondary crushing circuit Floatation/grinding/screening plant Tailings thickener and filter press [...]

Highlights: Metallurgical work completed on representative oxide, transition and fresh rock composite samples ranging in grade from 2.36% Cg for fresh rock to 3.04% Cg for oxide samples. Bond abrasion and work index testing show low to medium abrasion and low energy requirements. Open circuit flotation tests resulted in excellent concentrates grade ranging from 94.4% Cg for fresh rock materials to 99.5% Cg for oxide [...]

Santa Cruz Graphite Mine Highlights: Final payment of land purchase for Phase 1 Plant and Operations. Approval of the Definitive Mining Licenses For Phases 1, 2 & 3. All mining and environmental licenses/permits are approved and in-hand for the future phased, modular expansion of Santa Cruz graphite production up to 50,000 tonnes/year. Phase 1 construction is on schedule for substantial completion by the end of June 2024 [...]

VANCOUVER, BC, May 6, 2024 /CNW/ - Trading resumes in: Company: South Star Battery Metals Corp. TSX-Venture Symbol: STS All Issues: Yes Resumption : 2:30 CIRO can make a decision to impose a temporary suspension of trading in a security of a publicly-listed company. Trading halts are implemented to ensure a fair and orderly market. CIRO is the national self-regulatory organization which oversees all investment dealers and [...]

South Star Battery Metals Corp. is pleased to announce the execution of a binding sales agreement for the initial purchase of 100 tonnes of the Company's graphite concentrate from its Santa Cruz Graphite Mine in Brazil. The material will be shipped in five industry-standard intermodal ISO 20-foot shipping containers, each holding 20 one-tonne super sacks. South Star anticipates that initial orders will be fulfilled and [...]

South Star Battery Metals Corp. , is pleased to announce that Richard Vigil has been appointed as Vice President of Operations of the Company. Mr. Vigil is a mining engineer with an MBA specializing in international business and finance. He has 15 years of experience evaluating mines and projects globally but with a focus on the Americas. His expertise includes assessing the technical and economic merits of [...]