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Orocan Announces Increase in Private Placement
Vancouver, BC - December 23, 2011 - Orocan Resource Corp (the "Company) is pleased to announce that due to investor demand it intends to increase the size of its previously announced non-brokered private placement financing (see the press releases December 12, 2011) from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
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Orocan Announces Airborne EM has Commenced in Ontario
Vancouver, BC - December 22, 2011 - Orocan Resource Corp (the "Company) Orocan is pleased to announce that it has commenced exploration on its Black Donald, Little-Bryan and Lyndoch properties. An airborne TDEM survey conducted by Prospectair Geosurveys, is currently being flown over the three (3) properties located in Ontario and the results from this survey will serve to evaluate the extent of the known occurrences and help in the discovery of new mineralization.
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Orocan Announces Name Change to "Standard Graphite Corporation"
Vancouver, BC - December 21, 2011 - Orocan Resource Corp (the "Company) announces that an extraordinary general meeting of members of the Company will be held on January 27, 2012. At that meeting, a special resolution will be proposed to change the Company's name to "Standard Graphite Corporation". The change of name is subject to member approval and acceptance for filing by the TSX Venture Exchange.
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Orocan Announces Non-Brokered Private Placement for up to 4,000,000 Units
Vancouver, BC - December 12, 2011 - Orocan Resource Corp (the "Company) a non-brokered private placement of up to 4,000,000 units at a price of $0.25 per unit (the "Unit") for aggregate gross proceeds of up to CDN $l,000,000. Each Unit will consist of one common share and one half of one non-transferable share purchase warrant. Each whole warrant (the "Warrant") will be exercisable by the holder to acquire one additional common share at a price of $0.40 for 18 months from Closing. The Warrants are subject to an accelerated expiry which comes into effect once the shares trade above a weighted average price of $0.60 for any twenty consecutive trading-day period, subsequent to four months from Closing. In the event of an accelerated expiry, the expiry date will be the earlier of the regular 18 month expiry date and 30 days from the date the Company advises the placees of the accelerated expiry.
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Orocan Signs Agreement for Graphite Properties in Quebec
Vancouver, BC - December 01, 2011 - Orocan Resource Corp (the "Company) is pleased to announce it has signed an option agreement to acquire a 100% interest in nine graphite properties in Quebec, Canada. Theses properties have been acquired by a group of vendors led by the Quebec Graphite Consortium (QGC).
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Orocan Signed a Binding Agreement for Graphite Properties in Ontario
Vancouver, BC - November 21, 2011 - Orocan Resource Corp (the "Company) is pleased to announce it has signed a Binding Agreement to acquire a 100% interest in three graphite properties in Ontario, Canada including the Black Donald and Little Bryan Properties.
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Zimtu Capital Corp. Announces Graphite Property Transaction with Orocan Resource Corp.
VANCOUVER, Zimtu Capital Corp. (TSXv: ZC; FSE: ZCT1) (the "Company" or "Zimtu") is pleased to announce that the Company and two of its prospecting partners have signed an agreement with Orocan Resource Corp. (TSXv: OR) ("Orocan") whereby Orocan can earn a 100%-interest in the three...
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Focus Metals Changes Its Name to Focus Graphite
OTTAWA- May 24, 2012 - Focus Metals Inc. (TSX VENTURE:FMS)(OTCQX:FCSMF)(FRANKFURT:FKC) (the “Corporation”) is pleased to announce that following the approval of a special resolution by the Corporation’s shareholders at the annual and special meeting of shareholders of the Corporation held on May 3rd, 2012 in Ottawa, Ontario, the Corporation has changed its name and will now trade on the TSX Venture Exchange (the “Exchange”) under the name “Focus Graphite Inc.” as of May 25, 2012. The Corporation will continue trading on the Exchange under the stock symbol “FMS”.
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Northern Graphite Awards Detailed Engineering and Design Contract for Bissett Creek
January 18th, 2013 - Following a competitive bidding process involving five engineering firms, Northern Graphite Corp. has awarded a $3.5-million contract for the detailed engineering and design of the Bissett Creek graphite project to PES-BECMA. PES-BECMA, a joint effort between Porcupine Engineering Services Inc. and BECMA Ltd., will be responsible for the front-end engineering and design (FEED) of the 2,500-tonne-per-day processing facility and related infrastructure that will produce approximately 20,000 tonnes of large-flake, high-purity graphite per year.
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Rock Tech Enters Option Agreement to Acquire 100% Interest in Quebec Graphite Property
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 30, 2012 – Rock Tech Lithium Inc. (TSX-Venture: RCK; Frankfurt: RJIA; Pink Sheets: RCKTF) (the “Company” or “Rock Tech”) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an option agreement (the “Agreement”), subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange (the “Exchange”), whereby the Company can acquire a 100% interest in a graphite property (“Option Property”), located in southwestern Quebec, from UniMera Holding Public Ltd. (the “Vendor”).
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Standard Graphite Retains European Investor Relations
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Jul 20, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Standard Graphite Corp. (tsx.v: SGH) (the "Company") reported that it has entered into a consulting agreement to retain Pure IR of Munich, Germany to provide financial public relations services. Pure IR will assist the Company in expanding its profile and conveying the Company's key messages primarily to the European investment community.
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