Graphite One says Dunleavy highlighted Graphite Creek as a U.S. graphite source
Graphite One said Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy highlighted its Graphite Creek project as a possible domestic graphite source as the company pointed to federal permitting progress and U.S. reliance on imports.
Graphite One said Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy highlighted its Graphite Creek project as a possible domestic graphite source as the company pointed to federal permitting progress and U.S. reliance on imports.
Graphite One Inc. said Tuesday that Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy highlighted the company’s Graphite Creek project as a domestic source of graphite for U.S. critical mineral supply chains.
The company said Dunleavy made the comments in an Aug. 31 Fox News op-ed and later discussed Alaska’s graphite potential in a Fox News television interview. The release said the project is part of a broader effort to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign natural graphite, a material used in battery and energy storage supply chains.
Graphite One said the United States remained 100% net import reliant for natural graphite in 2025, citing the U.S. Geological Survey’s 2026 Mineral Commodity Summaries. The company also said the USGS identifies Graphite Creek, north of Nome, Alaska, as the largest known graphite deposit in the United States and one of the largest globally.
The release said Dunleavy described the reserve as large enough to meet the nation’s graphite needs for a century. Atlas could not independently verify that claim from the materials provided.
Graphite One said Alaska hosts known resources of 57 of the 60 U.S. government-designated critical minerals. The company also said Dunleavy previously nominated Graphite Creek as a federal High-Priority Infrastructure Project and that, in June 2025, the project was accepted as a covered project under the FAST-41 permitting process. Graphite One said that made it the first Alaska mining project listed on the FAST-41 Permitting Dashboard.
FAST-41 is a federal program intended to give covered infrastructure projects more agency coordination, more transparency and a set permitting timetable, according to the company’s release.
Graphite One said its plan is to build a vertically integrated U.S. graphite supply chain spanning mining in Alaska, processing, advanced materials manufacturing in Ohio and potential recycling. The company said the project is designed to turn an American resource into domestic supply for lithium-ion battery and energy storage markets.
The release also included standard cautionary language saying the project remains subject to financing and that there is no assurance Graphite Creek will provide all graphite needed in the United States.
What officials or companies said
Graphite One chief executive Anthony Huston said the United States remains reliant on imported natural graphite and said the company is advancing a supply chain anchored by Graphite Creek in Alaska and advanced graphite materials manufacturing in Ohio.
The company also quoted Huston as saying domestic resources must be developed at scale if the United States wants to reduce dependence on foreign graphite.
What happens next
Graphite One said it is continuing to advance the project, but financing remains a condition for future progress.
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