Status
Announced: Mine development awaiting financing
Product: Flake + purified AAM. Capacity: 25.0 kt/yr (Legacy figure; not re-verified).
EcoGraf Tanzania; second major African graphite source after Balama; HFfree purification process; environmental differentiation; non-Chinese source for ex-IRA markets.
Customers and offtakers: Multiple.
Plant record
Plant record
| Company | EcoGraf (Tanzania) |
| Plant | Epanko Natural Graphite Mine |
| City | Epanko |
| State or province | Morogoro |
| Country | Tanzania |
| Material | natural graphite |
| Product | Flake + purified AAM |
| Capacity (kt/yr) | 25.0 |
| Capacity basis | Legacy figure; not re-verified |
| Status | announced |
| Status note | Mine development awaiting financing; purification planned in Australia; unverified |
| Scale | commercial |
| Start year | 2026 |
| Investment (US$ billion) | 0. |
| Customers and offtakers | Multiple |
| Carbon or silicon source | Tanzania natural graphite |
| Geopolitical exposure | MEDIUM |
| Record updated | 2026-10 |
In context
Where it fits
Listed in Anode Active Materials. Anode plants are compared on route (natural or synthetic graphite, silicon, hard carbon), the step they own (mining, graphitization, spheroidizing, coating), capacity and cell qualification; purification, graphitization and coating are the bottlenecks, not graphite itself.
Sources
Sources and scope
- Scope
- Epanko Natural Graphite Mine (EcoGraf (Tanzania))
- Sources
- ElectronsX anode dataset; company disclosures and filings
- Updated
- 2026-10