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Strike Graphite

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERCHRIS BERRY

With a life-long interest in geopolitics and the financial issues that emerge from these relationships, Chris founded House Moun-tain Partners in 2010. House Mountain firmly believes that the emerging Quality of Life Cycle emanating from Asia is a "game changer" which will affect every one of us throughout the world for decades. With that in mind, the firm focuses on the intersection of three topics: the evolving geopolitical relationship between emerging and devel-oped economies, the commodity space, and junior mining and resource stocks po-sitioned to benefit from this phenomenon. Chris spent 15 years working across various roles in sales and brokerage on Wall Street before founding House Mountain Partners.

Chris is widely quoted in the press and is a frequent speaker at conferences in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Chris co-authors Morning Notes by Dr. Mi-chael Berry - a complimentary newsletter focusing to the topics mentioned above.

He holds an MBA in Finance with an interna-tional focus from Fordham University, and a BA in International Studies from The Virginia Military Institute.




COmPANy OVERVIEwLomiko focuses on Electric Minerals and Gold. We believe growth will be attained by the discovery and development of minerals for a new Green Economy, investment in green technology and discovering Gold Deposits as gold is the best store of wealth. Lomiko stock also trades on the following: ; OTC: LMRMF; FSE: DH8B, Europe: ISIN: CA54163Q1028, WKN: A0Q9W7

mANAGEmENTA. Paul Gill ~ President and CEOMr. Gill is the President of AJS Management Inc., a company providing management consulting to private and public companies. He has also been involved in the strategy, planning and implementation phases of re-structuring organizations. Until October 2006, Mr. Gill was heavily involved in the dynamic growth stage of Norsemont Mining where the company grew from a market capitalization of $1 million to $50 million. During his tenure with Norsemont Mining, Mr. Gill was the VP of Business Development and Director as well as the President and CEO, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary.

GRAPHITE PROjECTSProject Names: Quatre MillesLocation: Southwest QuebecDetails: The Quatre Milles Property is road accessible and is located approximately 175 km northwest of Montreal and 17 km due north of the village of Sainte-Veronique, Quebec. The property consists of 28 contigu-ous claims totaling approximately 1,600 hectares.

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The property was originally staked and explored by Graphicor Resources Inc. in the summer of 1989 based on the results of a regional helicopter-borne EM survey. The underlying geology consists of intercalated biotite gneiss, biotite feldspar gneiss, marble, quartzite and calc-silicate lithologies of the Central Metasedimentary Belt of the Grenville Province.

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Issued and Outstanding: 55,518,445Price as of 2/16/12: $0.10

“ We might have enough information based on historic exploration and previous drill holes to go right to the point of drilling— Paul Gill




COmPANy OVERVIEwCedar Mountain is a mineral exploration company with a clear and distinct business strategy to identify, acquire, and explore high potential projects ready for rapid advancement. Cedar Mountain is currently advanc-ing the flagship project, Graphite Creek, on the Seward Peninsula of Alaska, located 65 km north of Nome. The graphite-rich deposit offers significant potential for the discovery of large-flake, high-purity graphite exposed at surface, and is well-positioned to host an open-pit mine. Cedar Mountain holds 100% interest in the Graphite Creek project with the intention of advancing the prop-erty to a compliant resource by 2013.

mANAGEmENTCharles Chebry ~ President, Chairman and CEOMr. Chebry is the President, CEO, Chairman and Director of both Cedar Mountain Exploration Inc. and Altiplano Minerals Ltd. Mr. Chebry is also involved in the follow-ing mineral exploration companies: Director of Argonaut Exploration Inc., Director of Happy Creek Minerals Ltd. and Director of North Country Gold Corp. Previously Mr. Chebry served as a Director of CBR Gold Corp. from inception and served as President and founder of its predecessor company Arta Enterprises Inc. Mr. Chebry is the past Chief Financial Officer of Kaminak Gold Corpo-ration and Kivalliq Energy Corporation.

GRAPHITE PROjECTProject Name: Graphite CreekLocation: near Nome, Alaska, USADetails: The Graphite Creek project is located on the Seward Peninsula of Alaska, USA, on privately held prop-

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erty. The property hosts what is believed to be a large-flake, high-purity graphite resource and is in an open-pit mining configuration to allow for future development due to the minimal overburden. Graphite Creek is 65 kilo-metres north of Nome and three kilometres away from intertidal waters at Windy Cove. Furthermore, the project is situated three kilometres away from the nearest airstrip and approximately 20 kilometres away from the nearest road systems. The Graphite Creek property is approxi-mately 7,680 acres or 3,108 hectares in size now.

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“ Our team has successfully identified and secured all lands of geological merit surrounding the high-grade Graphite Creek project— Charles Chebry




COmPANy OVERVIEwAs a start-up company in 2010, Focus Metal’s brief his-tory has been stellar. Starting with its purchase of the Romer, Northern Quebec gold and precious metals prop-erties, its core business was shaped by its acquisition of the Lac Knife, Quebec crystalline flake graphite project from IAMGOLD. Focus Metals endeavours to lead, build and grow its business responsibly with respect for the environment; by exceeding expectations, and; first and foremost, by placing its investors’ interests at the fore-front. Focus Metals is also traded on OTCQX:FCSMF and FRANKFURT:FKC.

mANAGEmENTGary Economo ~ President and CEOMr. Economo has a distinguished business leadership career, serving as CEO for a number of high technology companies during the last 20 years. A former President and CEO of Dynasty Components Inc., he enjoys a long history of graphite marketing and sales for high-tech applications. Immediately prior to joining Focus Metals Inc., a company he founded with Jeffrey York, he served as Director, Corporate Communications and Investor Relations for Everton Resources Inc.

GRAPHITE PROjECTProject Name: Lac KnifeLocation: Fermont, Quebec, CanadaDetails: Focus Metals Inc. holds 100% ownership of its Lac Knife, 16% carbon grade medium and large flake crystalline graphite property. The property is at the pre-development stage with infrastructure, surface mining and primary processing (95% grade) facility construction activities planned for completion by the end of 2013. A secondary enrichment and refining facility capable of pro-

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ducing technology-grade, 99.9% graphite is scheduled for commissioning in 2014. Lac Knife was nearly developed in the early 2000s in a joint venture between Graftech International and Ballard Power Systems, previous studies were re-confirmed and updated to NI 43-101 standards and published last December. The property is unique because of its cost-mitigating, high concentration of large, medium and small flake graphite destined to meet rising global demand. A 16% carbon content means the most competitively priced technology graphite in the world. STOCk INFORmATION

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“ This 43-101 validates our position that Focus Metals' Lac Knife property holds the best grade of graphite in the world— Gary Economo




COmPANy OVERVIEwStandard Graphite Corp., an exploration-stage company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and develop-ment of graphite properties in Canada. The company is based in Vancouver, Canada with the exploration office based in Val d’Or, Quebec.

mANAGEmENTChris Bogart ~ President and CEOMr. Bogart has extensive experience in the areas of resource finance, business development, strategic plan-ning and corporate restructuring. He is also the presi-dent of Metals Management Group. Within the Strategic Metals Sector, Mr. Bogart was a co-founder of Magnum Uranium a TSX.V company which was purchased by TSX Listed Energy Fuels (TSX:EFR).

GRAPHITE PROjECTSProject Names: Black Donald, Little-Byran, LyndochLocation: Renfrew, Ontario, CanadaDetails: 9,000-hectare Black Donald (Standard holds a 100% interest) immediately surrounds the former Black Donald Mine which produced a large quantity of high-grade and high purity graphite between 1896 and 1950. 3,250-hectare Little-Bryan (Standard holds a 100% interest) is centered on known graphite occurrences and has been exposed to limited exploration through trench-ing and shallow diamond drilling. Lyndoch Graphite is centered on known graphite occurrences. Both Little-Byron and Lyndoch Graphite Both have been exposed to limited exploration through trenching and shallow diamond drilling. Airborne surveys were flown over each of these three properties in January 2012. Results from the surveys to be released soon will form the backbone of the upcoming prospecting, trenching and drilling pro-grams planned for 2012.

Project Names: Carheil, Sandy LakeLocation: New Quebec District, Quebec, CanadaDetails: Carheil, Sandy Lake and Sandy Lake NE are centered on the metasedimentary belts of the Grenville

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province with known marble/gneiss lithologies consid-ered essential to host graphite deposit and having been metamorphosed to sufficiently high grade to produce the larger graphite flakes. Carheil hosts graphite of various grades (up to 30 percent+). Sandy Lake and Sandy Lake NE have similar geology to Lac Knife. None of these proper-ties has been explored by modern exploration methods. Trenching and drilling programs are planned for 2012.

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COmPANy OVERVIEwNorthern Graphite Corporation is an Ottawa-based Ca-nadian mine development company. Northern’s principal asset is the Bissett Creek graphite project located 100km east of North Bay, Ontario and close to major roads and infrastructure. The Company has completed an NI 43-101 Preliminary Economic Assessment Report on the project and has subsequently initiated a bankable final feasibility study and commenced the environmental and mine per-mitting process. Northern anticipates that it will be in a position to begin construction of the mine early in 2012, subject to positive results from the final feasibility study and the availability of financing. Northern also trades on the OTCBB under the symbol "NGPHF".

mANAGEmENTGregory Bowes ~ CEOMr. Bowes has over 25 years of experience in the resource and engineering industries. He holds an MBA from Queens University and an Honours B.Sc., Geology degree from the University of Waterloo. Mr. Bowes was Senior VP of Orezone Gold Corporation (ORE:TSX) from February 2009 to October 2009, and was Vice President, Corporate Development of its predecessor, Orezone Resources Inc., from January 2004 until September 2005 and was Chief Financial Officer from October 2005 to March 2007, and from April 2008 to February 2009.

GRAPHITE PROjECTProject Name: Bissett Creek Location: Bissett Creek, Ontario, Canada Details: Northern Graphite Corporation holds a 100 percent interest in the Bissett Creek mining lease and surrounding claims, which are located 17 kilometres

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from the Trans Canada Highway between the cities of Ottawa and North Bay, Ontario, Canada. The site can be accessed by a good quality all weather road and labour, power, rail lines and water are all readily available. In September 2011, the company announced a significant increase in estimated resources based on the results from a 51 hole, 2,927 meter drilling program. The new resources indicate that production could be scaled to much higher rates to meet anticipated future growth in graphite demand.

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“ We believe the size, the scalability and the very high percentage of large flake graphite in the Bissett Creek de-posit makes it unique in the world— Gregory Bowes




COmPANy OVERVIEwStrike Graphite has acquired two projects within a min-ing friendly, politically stable jurisdiction. Deep Bay East, Saskatchewan and Simon Lake, Saskatchewan. Both projects possess geologic traits for the discovery of sig-nificant, large flake graphite deposits. Poised for success, with aggressive exploration and development.

mANAGEmENTGeoff Balderson ~ President and CEOIn addition to his leadership position with Strike Graph-ite, Mr. Balderson is President of Flow Capital Corp. and the VP of Snowwater Financial Ltd., private consulting groups in Vancouver, BC. Mr. Balderson is currently a director of Argentum Silver Corp., a (TSX-V:ASL) and President/CEO/Director of Barranco Resources Corp., a Capital Pool Company.

GRAPHITE PROjECTSProject Name: Deep East Bay Location: Southend, Saskatchewan, Canada Details: Deep Bay East covers 5,500 ha (13,590 acres), 15 km east of the Deep Bay West Graphite Mine. The property is noted for its potential to host a near-surface graphite deposit comprised of scarce, large-flake, high-purity graphite. The property has been explored for graphite since the 1960s. The historic drilling and trenching identified high grades of graphite across thick intervals. The Deep Bay West Mine is currently being advanced towards production and is host to a historic non-NI 43-101 compliant resource of 1.8 million tonnes. Project Name: Simon Lake Location: Northern Saskatchewan, Canada Details: Simon Lake covers 3,472 ha (8,579 acres) 280 km NE of La Ronge, close to Highway 905. The property consists of showings of flake graphite mineralization in historic drill holes, encountering a graphitic, biotite gneiss with visual estimates of zones containing from a few percent up to 70 percent graphite.

Project Name: Wagon Location: Quebec, Canada

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Details: Wagon contains 3 separate claim blocks of 3,000 ha near Timcal’s Lac des Iles Graphite Mine - the largest of two Canadian graphite producers. It has been in production for over twenty years producing various sizes and purities of graphite. The geology of the prop-erty is consistent with the Central Metasedimentary Belt of the Grenville Province. About one hundred outcrops are located on the property covering 18 km strike length of the formations.

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Zimtu Capital Corp. is a publicly held investment com-

pany that creates, invests in, and grows natural resource

companies and provides a unique way for investors

to participate in, and profit from, the public company

building process. Zimtu also trades under FSE:ZCT1.

mANAGEmENT

David Hodge ~ President

Mr. David Hodge, President and Director of Zimtu Capital

Corp. has an extensive background in business that

includes over fifteen years of experience in the man-

agement and financing of publicly-traded companies.

Mr. Hodge has been a director of mineral exploration

companies since 1996, and has served as President and

Director of Commerce Resources Corp. from its initial

public offering to the present. Mr. Hodge also serves on

the boards of Western Potash Corp. and Triple Dragon

Resources Inc. Mr. Hodge's strengths lie in leadership

and imaginative direction. His success has been founded

on a belief in team building, consultation and strong

leadership, as well as a willingness to incorporate expert

advice into a viable working enterprise.

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Zimtu Capital Corp. holds equity positions in several min-

eral exploration companies focused on graphite. An early

entrant to the graphite space, the company has been

actively acquiring properties and investing in companies

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that were doing the same. Zimtu has already participated

in several graphite transactions.

Zimtu believes that significant opportunities exist in the

graphite market and will build on its exposure to the

space, in addition to supporting the companies it holds an

interest in.

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“ Unlike many other commodities, there’s no global market to sell into. That creates an intimate relationship between miners and customers —Ryan Fletcher

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According to environmentalists, a low-carbon economy will be integral to a green future of electric vehicles and clean energy. Paradoxically, however, many analysts, explorers, miners—and especially the market—believe that future will rely on a vastly increased supply of one form of carbon: graphite. “The historic uses for graphite are still growing,” says Ryan Fletcher, a director at Zimtu Capital TSXV:ZC. “But new uses are putting incremental demand on the market.”

Graphite, a carbon allotrope, can be considered coal at its highest grade and a cousin to diamonds. It is used most widely to create extremely heat-resistant coatings for steel manufacturing equipment, as well as an additive in steel itself. Among other uses, it’s also found in brake linings, gaskets and clutches, golf clubs and tennis rackets and, under the alias of “lead,” it’s the key component in pencils.

Future projections link graphite to alternative energy: fuel cells, solar panels, pebble-bed nuclear reactors and, espe-cially, lithium-ion batteries. Used for computers, cameras, cell phones and MP3 players, lithium-ion is now taking the place of nickel-metal hydride to power electric vehicles. The prognosis for electric vehicles, meanwhile, is dra-matic. Today only about 2% of all vehicles sold are electric, and most are nickel-metal powered. But by 2020, electric vehicles powered by lithium-ion are expected to command anywhere from 5% to 18% of sales.

Clean CarbonBlack Fuel May Drive a Green Future~ By Greg Klein, December 20th, 2011

That will require new graphite sources. Throughout the last decade, world production hovered around 1.1 million tonnes a year. And about 70% to 80% of that came from China (see update below), which is now restricting exports through a 20% export duty, a 17% value-added tax and an export licensing system.

Fletcher emphasizes that graphite “isn’t a homogenous market. There are different sizes of flake, different purity levels. Unlike many other commodities, there’s no global market to sell into. That creates an intimate relationship between miners and customers.”

Depending on the ore and milling process, graphite varies by grade, particle-size distribution (or mesh) and moisture content, among other factors. For example a large-flake product might be +80 mesh (0.177 millimetres) with a grade of 94% to 99% graphitic carbon, less than 0.5% moisture content, 1.3% volatile matter, 0.01% sulphur and 0.55g/cm3 loose-bulk density.

Less than half the graphite produced is the large-flake stuff essential to lithium-ion batteries and other new uses. About 60% of world production is of the fine-mesh or amorphous graphite used for traditional purposes such as steel making.

These facts are reflected in rising prices. This year large-flake graphite (+80 mesh) hit the $2,500 to $3,000 a tonne range, about twice 2010 prices. Medium-flake graphite has reached $2,200 to $2,500 a tonne and fine flake $2,200 to $2,400, while amorphous graphite has been selling for $850.

Byron Capital Markets expects to see annual graphite de-mand increase from 1.1 million tonnes to about 2.6 million tonnes by 2020. Even if the lithium-ion predictions don’t pan out, Byron still sees demand steadily rising to 1.5 million tonnes by 2020.

But future demand won’t necessarily be limited to increased lithium-ion usage. According to a January 2011 report from the US Geological Survey, “Large-scale fuel-cell applica-tions are being developed that could consume as much graphite as all other uses combined.” University of West Virginia researchers, meanwhile, say next-generation pebble-bed nuclear reactors could use the world’s entire current output of flake graphite.

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Not surprisingly, a July 2010 European Union report lists graphite as one of 14 raw materials considered economi-cally critical.

Continued Chinese dominance in production is a major concern. The US Geological Survey credits China with producing 800,000 tonnes in 2010, far outpacing India (130,000 tonnes), Brazil (76,000 tonnes), North Korea (30,000 tonnes) and Canada (25,000 tonnes). All other countries combined produced just 32,000 tonnes. But the USGS estimates the world’s inferred resources to exceed 800 million tonnes.

(Update: A February 14, 2012, Industrial Minerals article by Simon Moores reports that China’s graphite production has been under-estimated at 55% to 75% of world supply. Moores says China actually produces 80%, with North Ko-rea producing another 2%. Moores also states that India’s production has been over-estimated at 140,000 tonnes a year when the country is in fact “a modest 45,000 tpa producer.”)

Unlike many other commodities, there’s no global market to sell into. That creates an intimate relationship between miners and customers —Ryan Fletcher

Just two mines account for Canada’s fifth-place status. Eagle Graphite Corp produces high-flake graphite from its southeast BC mine, while Timcal Graphite & Carbon mines flake graphite at its Lac-des-Iles Mine in Quebec.

Other Canadian projects are in the exploration or devel-opment stage. “When it comes to graphite, Canada has some of the world’s best terrain in the metamorphic belt extending from southeast Ontario up to northern Quebec,” Fletcher reports.

Northern Graphite’s TSXV:NGC Bissett Creek Property in eastern Ontario is scheduled to begin feasibility and permitting in 1Q 2012. Earlier this month, Focus Metals TSXV:FMS published a resource estimate for its Lac Knife Project in northeast Quebec.

Ontario Graphite Ltd plans to reopen the past-producing Kearney Mine in southeast Ontario, which it calls the larg-est confirmed graphite prospect in North America and one of the largest individual deposits outside of China and North Korea.

Under an agreement with Zimtu and one of its prospecting partners, Strike Gold Corp TSXV:SRK is earning a 100% interest the Deep Bay East and Simon Lake graphite prop-erties in northern Saskatchewan.

Orocan Resource TSXV:OR has picked up 12 projects in

three districts of Ontario and Quebec and just announced a $1-million private placement. Canadians exploring abroad include Mega Graphite Inc, which is negotiating with an ASX-listed company to acquire Australia’s largest graphite property, the Uley Mine.

For the present, the graphite boom is still at the specula-tive stage. Should the Chinese economy falter, new battery technology emerge or electric vehicles go the way of the Edsel, graphite stocks might not be worth much more than a chunk of coal in a wayward kid’s Christmas stocking. But one way or another, it looks like carbon will prevail.

Unlike many other com-modities, there’s no global

market to sell into. That creates an intimate rela-tionship between miners

and customers —Ryan Fletcher

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