Posted on 21 Apr 2025
Canadian miner Northern Graphite and real estate company BMI Group are considering establishing a battery anode material (BAM) facility in Baie-Comeau, Quebec.
The pair will evaluate the feasibility of the plant, which would be built at a former paper mill at BMI’s Norderra multimodal industrial hub. In the first stage, it would have a capacity of 50,000 tonnes/year of BAM. Production is slated to start in 2028.
Northern Graphite is also evaluating another option for the BAM facility, a 300-acre greenfield site owned by the city of Baie-Comeau. However, the miner says the Norderra hub “has significant advantages in terms of existing infrastructure and speed to market.”
Norderra, which has 784,000 square feet of indoor space and 82 acres of outdoor leasable land, is connected to the port of Baie-Comeau. It also sits on BMI’s planned critical mineral corridor – an infrastructure and logistics network intended to support the distribution of minerals across Ontario and Quebec.
Currently, Northern Graphite produces 10,000-15,000 t/y of graphite concentrate from its Lac Des Iles mine in Quebec. The company is targeting a production of 200,000 t/y across its properties in Canada and Namibia.
Source:Kallanish
