Kellyton – Westwater Resources, Inc. announced that it has submitted a Section 404 permit application to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the company’s Coosa County graphite deposit. Submitted under the Clean Water Act, this represents an important step in the permitting process for Coosa. The application relates to certain potential impacts to water associated with future development activities at the project site.
“Submission of the Section 404 permit application reflects continued progress in advancing Coosa through the permitting process,” said Frank Bakker, president and CEO of Westwater Resources. “Coosa is intended to serve as a future domestic feedstock source for our Kellyton graphite plant, supporting our objective of developing a secure U.S. vertically-integrated supply of battery-grade graphite.”
The Coosa graphite deposit is located approximately 30 miles from Westwater’s Kellyton graphite plant. It is the largest and most developed graphite deposit in the contiguous USA and will provide a long-term domestic source of natural flake graphite feedstock. The Kellyton plant is being developed to process natural flake graphite into battery-grade graphite. Together, these assets support Westwater’s vertically-integrated, mine-to-market strategy of developing U.S.-based graphite production capacity for domestic supply chains.
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