The Wall Street Journal reports that Air pollution from coal combustion likely cut life expectancy in parts of China by more than five years during the 1990s, a study has found, adding weight to increasing public demands for Beijing to clean up the environment.

Cleaning the killer air means replacing coal with nuclear power plants. EACH of the 54 nuclear power plants under construction in China requires 10,000 tons of super pure high grade graphite to build and 14,000 tons each YEAR to run the nuclear power plants.

Western Graphite announced they are in negotiations to add a new 2000 acre FULLY producing graphite mine to their operations.

The new mine is a fully producing graphite “Khara Mine” and in the same area as the WSGP's Amorf property in Southern Turkey.

The BIG plan here? USE the cash flow from this operation to kick-start production of high-quality big flake carbon graphite in their British Columbia project. This deal also potentially triples WSGP's graphite mining operations in the region.