Tirupati Graphite plc announced the opening of its second mine in Madagascar at the Vatomina Project, where it remains on track to start commissioning the first 9,000 tpa processing plant in second quarter of 2021. To support increasing demand for its products, Tirupati continues to make excellent progress advancing its specialty graphite and graphene processing businesses in India as well as its two primary mining and processing projects in Madagascar, Vatomina and Sahamamy, where it aims to increase production capacity to a globally significant 84,000 tpa by 2024 in several modules. Over the next 4-6 weeks now the Vatomina mine has opened, the Company will strip the overburden and mine ore to commence stockpiling of feed stock for the upcoming 9,000 tpa processing plant that remains on track to be commissioned in second quarter 2021.