US government gives high priority status to Graphite One’s Alaskan project
Drill platform at Graphite One’s Graphite Creek project in western Alaska. Credit: Graphite One
In mid-January Graphite One’s (TSX: GPH; US-OTC: GPHOF) Graphite Creek project in Alaska was designated as a High-Priority Infrastructure Project (HPIP) by the US. government’s Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Committee (FPISC). The approval comes after the project was originally nominated for HPIP designation by Alaskan governor Mike Dunleavy in October, 2019.
In his 2019 nomination letter to the FPISC, Governor Dunleavy wrote that designating Graphite Creek as a High-Priority Infrastructure Project “will send a strong signal that the US. intends to end the days of our 100% import-dependency for this increasingly critical mineral.”