Orbite Aluminae Inc. Reports on Its General and Special Meeting of Shareholders

MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - July 3, 2012) - Orbite Aluminae Inc. (TSX:ORT) (the "Company" or "Orbite") is pleased to report that it held its annual general and special meeting of shareholders (the "Meeting") on June 29, 2012 and all items of business on the agenda were approved. At the Meeting, Orbite shareholders:

• re-elected all nine nominees for director with a new term to expire in 2013, namely Richard Boudreault, Toby Gilsig, Pierre Meunier, Charles Chevrette, Christian Van Houtte, Lionel Léveillé, Stéphane Bertrand, Michael Hanley et Jean-Sébastien David;
  
  
• ratified the reappointment of KPMG LLP as Orbite's independent public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2012;
  
  
• and voted affirmatively for the approval of the new 2012 Stock Option Plan.
  
  

Orbite's President and CEO, Mr. Richard Boudreault, also provided the shareholders with a comprehensive summary of the several milestones reached in the last year, including the favorable progression of the HPA production facility, the signing of several non-disclosure agreements with potential customers and partners and the incorporation of a wholly owned subsidiary expected to be the vehicle of the projected phase 1 SGA Joint Venture. Mr. Boudreault also announced Orbite's intention to evaluate the potential formation of distinct business divisions in order to segregate its several expected business operations, namely the HPA and SGA production facilities.

As previously announced, the closed-loop hydrochloric acid regeneration is an integral part of Orbite's patented process that enables the Company to become a low cost producer of smelter grade and high purity alumina, as well as rare earths and metals. This step of the process that can successfully use any source of raw materials, namely Orbite's clay with a low concentration of rare earths or third party feedstock, concentrates the rare earths and rare metals into chlorides, and convert them into hydroxides and then into separated oxides. The acid regeneration step, being one of the last steps of Orbite's process, and its proved efficiency validate entirely the technology from the first step that leaches all metals from the Grande-Vallée's deposit to the last one that allows very efficient extraction and subsequent separation of the rare earths and rare metals oxides.

About Orbite

Orbite currently owns 100% of the mining rights over a total of 60,984 hectares including the Grande-Vallee property measuring 6,665 hectares, the site of an aluminous clay deposit located 23 km south of Grande-Vallee, and a 2,600 m2 facility in the process of being converted into a high-purity alumina plant in Cap Chat, in the Gaspe region. An NI 43-101 report identified over 1 billion tonnes of aluminous clay in part of the deposit. The Company also owns ten different families of intellectual property rights (and patent pending), protected by Canadian and U.S. patents, for extracting alumina and for which patents are also pending in other countries.

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