US$1.3 billion NPV

Volt’s near-term strategy is to develop Bunyu Stage 1 to process 400,000tpa of ore and produce a nominal 20,000tpa of graphite products. The Stage 1 development is to produce bulk graphite product which will both satisfy the existing offtake agreement and the non-binding offtake agreements entered into with four potential Chinese customers1. The Bunyu Graphite Project has already demonstrated PFS project economics of US$1.3 billion NPV (pre-tax) with a 1.4 year payback based on annual production of approximately 170,000 tonnes of graphite product (see ASX announcement dated 15 December 2016).