Graphite is a key lithium-ion battery component, with demand for these batteries from sectors like electric vehicles and energy storage systems likely to provide tailwinds to the graphite sector in the coming years.
Australian investors searching for ways to get exposure to the graphite industry can look to the ASX, which is home to a slew of companies focused on supplying the graphite and battery anode markets.
When learning about an industry, it’s often a good idea to start with key players. The Investing News Network has compiled a list of the largest Australian graphite companies on the ASX by market cap.
Data was collected using TradingView’s stock screener on May 26, 2026.
Read on to learn about Australia’s largest graphite companies and their graphite mines and refineries here.
1. Sovereign Metals (ASX:SVM,OTCQX:SVMLF)
Market cap: AU$409.98 million
Sovereign Metals is focused on advancing its Kasiya project in Malawi towards production of natural rutile, which is a high-purity titanium feedstock, and natural flake graphite. The company believes the graphite from its project has the potential to be used to supply spherical purified graphite for the lithium-ion battery anode market.
Major miner Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO,NYSE:RIO,LSE:RIO) has made a series of strategic investments in Sovereign Metals of more than AU$60 million, giving it a 19.99 percent stake in the company.
With this funding and Rio Tinto’s technical expertise, Sovereign completed a definitive feasibility study (DFS) at Kasiya in April of 2026.
The DFS demonstrates that once it’s at steady state production, the project has the potential to produce 275,000 tonnes of flake graphite and 222,000 tonnes of rutile annually, which the study says would make it the world’s largest producer of both minerals. The DFS reports a 25 year initial mine life with a pre-tax net present value of US$2.2 billion.
2. Syrah Resources (ASX:SYR)
Market cap: AU$232.19 million
Syrah Resources is an industrial minerals and technology company with a vision of becoming a leading global supplier of graphite and battery anode products. The company’s two main focuses right now are its flagship Balama graphite operation in Mozambique and its Vidalia active anode materials facility in Louisiana, US.
Syrah started production at the Vidalia facility in early 2024 with an annual production capacity of 11,250 tonnes of active anode material. The company is considering expanding Vidalia’s production capacity to 45,000 tonnes per year; however, a final investment decision is dependent on sales of the product and customer and financing commitments.
Syrah’s Balama operation has a projected lifespan of over 50 years, and its combined mining and processing operations allow for the production of 94 to 98 percent pure carbon graphite concentrate.
Syrah inked a binding offtake agreement with EV maker Lucid Group (NASDAQ:LCID) in February 2025 to supply about 7,000 tonnes of natural graphite active anode material from Vidalia totalling in aggregate over a three-year term planned to begin in 2026.
In March 2026, Syrah entered a binding offtake agreement with NextSource Materials (TSX:NEXT,OTCQB:NSRCF) in which Syrah will supply between 34,000 and 68,000 tonnes of natural graphite fines over seven years to serve as feedstock for NextSource’s battery anode facility in the United Arab Emirates.
The company’s other offtake agreements include ones with South Korea’s Posco Future M (KRX:003670), Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA), Westwater Resources (NYSEAMERICAN:WWR), and Graphex Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Graphex Group (NYSEAMERICAN:GRFX,HKEX:6128).
On June 1, Syrah and Tesla resolved a dispute about product quality that could have resulted in Tesla terminating the offtake agreement. There are reports that the conflict may have had more to do with the current market price for natural graphite active anode material being significantly lower than the contract’s fixed price. If Tesla had proceeded with terminating its offtake deal, it would have created a roadblock for Syrah’s compliance with its US$98 million loan from the US Department of Energy for its Vidalia expansion.
Syrah also has a US$150 million conditional loan commitment with the US International Development Finance Corporation for Balama. The DFC is considering converting all of its outstanding debt to equity in Syrah.
3. Talga Group (ASX:TLG)
Market cap: AU$148.17 million
Talga Group is a vertically integrated graphite battery anode and materials company advancing its graphite anode refinery and mine at its Vittangi project in Sweden.
As of June 2025, all the necessary permits are in place for its wholly owned Nunasvaara South mine at its Vittangi anode project, which will feed its fully permitted anode refinery in Luleå. The mine and refinery together have been designated as a strategic project under the European Commission’s Critical Raw Materials Act and the Net-Zero Industry Act.
Talga is currently operating the EVA plant at the site, with annual capacity of 50 tonnes of battery anode per year aimed at qualification testing and sales for its Talnode anode product. The refinery’s next stage, anticipated to begin in 2027 or 2028, would see its production raised to 5,000 tonnes per year. Once the refinery is in full-scale operation, it is expected to produce 19,500 tonnes of lithium-ion battery anode annually.
Talga announced record anode production volumes in April 2026 as its Talnode anodes are part of 21 qualification and validation programs with battery manufacturers looking to supply a variety of demanding applications such as AI data centres and energy storage systems.
Talga has also secured a binding offtake agreement with battery charging technology company Nyobolt that includes a multi-year supply of Talga’s Talnode-C anode from Vittangi.
4. Renascor Resources (ASX:RNU)
Market cap: AU$147.68 million
Renascor Resources is focused on advancing its Siviour battery anode materials project in South Australia.
Siviour is planned as a vertically integrated battery anode material graphite mine and manufacturing operation with Stage 1 production of 50,000 tonnes per year of battery-grade purified spherical graphite (PSG).
In 2024, the Australian government approved a AU$185 million loan facility to help advance the upstream graphite concentrate operation at Siviour. The company also received a AU$5 million grant under the government’s International Partnerships in Critical Minerals Program to help fund a AU$10 million PSG demonstration processing plant.
Both of these initiatives have helped to fast track Siviour. After gaining government approval in June 2025, the demonstration plant was commissioned in April 2026 and is progressing toward production of battery-grade graphite and customer samples.
Renascor has offtake commitments in place with companies such as POSCO Holdings (NYSE:PKX,KRX:005490) and Mitsubishi Chemical Group (OTCPK:MTLHF,TSE:4188).
5. Quantum Graphite (ASX:QGL)
Market cap: AU$133.22 million
Quantum Graphite is advancing the Uley 2 flake graphite project in South Australia, which includes the past-producing Uley mine and the Mikkira deposit. The company bills it as “one of the largest high-grade natural flake deposits in the world.”
In March 2025, the Australian government granted major project status to the Uley 2 flake graphite property together with Sunland’s associated facilities.
The project is fully permitted and development ready, with a binding offtake agreement with a major European trading group for 50 percent of its production for a minimum of five years.
Through its Sunlands Power joint venture with Sunlands Energy, Quantum Graphite plans to manufacture coarse-natural-flake-based thermal storage media sourced from the Uley mine to be fitted within Sunland Energy’s patented TES Graphite Cells technology for grid-connected, long-duration energy storage.
In March 2026, Sunlands signed a memorandum of understanding with the Governorate of Al Buraimi to build a natural graphite refinery in Oman. Quantum Graphite’s Uley 2 project will serve as the exclusive supplier of flake graphite to this facility to make products for the global lithium-ion battery anode and thermal energy storage markets.
FAQs for investing in graphite
What is graphite?
Graphite is a naturally occurring form of the mineral carbon and is composed of many layers of graphene. The other naturally occurring form of carbon is diamonds, although the two minerals look entirely different due to their molecular structure. Graphite is fragile, but it has a very high heat resistance.
Natural graphite comes in three forms: amorphous, flake and vein, with flake being the most used. There is also synthetic graphite.
What is graphite used for?
A popular graphite use is as a component of lithium-ion batteries, which are used in everything from smart phones to EVs to energy storage systems. It is a primary material in battery anodes — in fact, in the average electric passenger car, there are about 66 kilograms of graphite.
The first thing that may come to mind when thinking of graphite applications is pencil lead. In fact, it is that industry that gave graphite its name — its moniker is derived from the Ancient Greek “graphein,” which means to write. However, pencils make up a small percentage of overall graphite consumption.
Other graphite uses include lubricants and consumer electronics; the commodity is also used as a refractory material in the manufacturing industry and in the creation of graphene sheets.
Is graphite found in Australia?
Australia sits on 5.4 million tonnes of ore reserves and 22.6 million tonnes of economic demonstrated resources, as per government data published in 2026. Australia’s graphite reserves and resources are shared between Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
Article by Melissa Pistilli; FAQs by Lauren Kelly.
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