Vancouver, British Columbia, November 10, 2026 – Graphite One Inc. (TSXV: GPH; OTCQX: GPHOF) (“Graphite One,” “G1” or the “Company”) today announced a research program with Ames National Laboratory (“Ames Lab”) to assess and optimize a sustainable process for recovering rare earth elements (“REEs”) from garnet material from the Company’s Graphite Creek deposit near Nome, Alaska.
The work, conducted under a Strategic Partnership Project Agreement, will examine garnet preparation and characterization, acid leaching, separation of heavy rare earth elements (“HREEs”) from light rare earth elements (“LREEs”), and product purification. Funded by G1. the program is intended to develop a preliminary scalable flowsheet and evaluate its mass balance, reagent use, water consumption and waste generation. The three-month project will commence immediately.
