Sovereign Metals Limited announced the appointment of consultant Dr Surinder Ghag to Sovereign's owner's team as Chief Technology Officer - Graphite. Dr Ghag will assist Sovereign's graphite strategy in qualifying the graphite product from its Kasiya Rutile-Graphite Project (Kasiya or Project) for lithium-ion battery anodes. A highly qualified metallurgist, Dr Ghag brings 25 years of industry experience including developing graphite test work programs, ore-to-anode graphite strategies, anode plant feasibility studies, and project development and commissioning.

Recently, Dr Ghag was instrumental in developing an environmentally friendly and commercially viable method for purifying graphite, working alongside the Australian Government scientific research entity CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation). Prior to his work in graphite, Dr Ghag's work included process engineering at various Australian mineral sands operations. A major component of graphite sales agreements is customer qualification.

As Chief Technology Officer- Graphite, Dr Ghag will be responsible for designing and delivering graphite downstream test work programs to be aligned with graphite product development and qualification as Sovereign continues discussions with battery anode processors, end-users, and potential future offtake partners.