Graphite investing: Supply and demand. As mentioned, flake graphite is currently gaining a lot of attention as graphite market participants try to guess how much impact facilities like Teslaâs gigafactory â and other lithium-ion battery megafactories â will have on graphite demand.
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Michael Blake, the writer whose novel Dances With Wolves became a major hit movie and earned him an Academy Award for the screenplay, has died. Blake, 69, died Saturday in Tucson, Arizona, after a long battle with cancer, his business partner, Daniel Ostroff, said. Blake, who wrote several novels, is best known for Dances With Wolves, which he wrote while broke at the urging of his longtime friend, the actor Kevin Costner. Michael Blake pictured accepting the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for Dances With Wolves at the 63rd Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles in 1991.