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Grande-Vallée North Aluminous Clay Prospect, Quebec

Habanero Resources Inc. has recently obtained the Grande-Vallee North aluminous clay prospect which consists of approximately 7,400 hectares (18,285 contiguous acres) directly bordering to the north Orbite Aluminae Inc (ORT-TSX) 6,441-hectare Grande-Vallée property, the site of an aluminous clay deposit located 32 km northeast of Murdochville, Quebec. The first phase of sampling on this property has been completed and altered red clay was encountered. Samples as high as 22.99% Al2O3 were encountered and multiple samples over 18% Al2O3 were sampled. At this time only 1/3 of the property has had work done and a more aggressive work program in now being planned for 2012 to test for Al2O3 and rare earths.

During 2011, APEX Geoscience Ltd ("APEX") geologists conducted a 4 day reconnaissance investigation of the Habanero Resources Inc's ("Habanero") Grand- Vallée North aluminous clay prospect located in Gaspe, Quebec. The Grand- Vallée North prospect comprises of 132 claims covering approximately 7,400 hectares (ha) and lies adjacent to Orbite Alumina Inc's (Orbite) 6,441 ha Grand-Valle Property.

"Recent exploration by Orbite has defined 5 zones of highly aluminous, unconsolidated fragmentary red shale and red and green mudstone ("claystones"). Analysis of 1,180 shale and mudstone drill core samples by Orbite returned an average Al2O3 ("alumina") content of 22.77% (Source: Orbite Alumina Inc., 2010 Field Work Grande-Vallée Property NI 43-101 Technical Report, March 31, 2011). Orbite has reported that through testing of its proprietary hydro-metallurgical treatment that a reasonable prospect of economic extraction exists for claystones containing over 18% alumina.

APEX collected a total of 27 samples of clay-rich shale and mudstone from unconsolidated surface deposits and outcrop. Of the 27 samples, a total of 16 were collected within Habanero's current Grand-Vallée North claims. Samples of red shale exposed in road-cuts 500 metres to the northwest of Orbite's "Zone D" occurrence returned highly anomalous alumina values. The alumina content of the 5 samples collected within Habanero's claims adjacent to the Zone D occurrence ranged from between 22.99% and 20.49% (Table 1). A total of 4 additional samples collected from between 1 and 3 kilometres northwest of the Zone D occurrence returned alumina values in excess of 18% (9 samples in total returned greater than 18% alumina; Table 1).

Table 1: 2011 Grand-Vallée North Alumina Analysis Summary
Sample Al2O3(%)
11ERS101 22.99
11ERS113 22.64
11CBS014 21.69
11ERS102 20.72
11CBS002 20.53
11CBS001 20.49
11ERS112 19.55
11CBS013 19.32
11CBS012 18.93

Habanero's 2011 reconnaissance has shown that unconsolidated shale and mudstone lithologies having visual similarities and comparable alumina content to those found within Orbite's Grand-Vallée Property, also occur within the Grand-Valle North prospect. The results indicate the potential of the Grand-Vallée North prospect to host aluminous clay deposits similar to those known at the Grand-Vallée Property. To date Habanero has not assessed the Rare Earth Element (REE) potential of the Grand-Vallée North prospect. The upcoming 2012 exploration program will focus on evaluating unexplored areas of the claims, delineating the known aluminous clay occurrences, and further examination of REE potential of the Grand-Vallée North prospect. At this time only 1/3 of the prospects land position has been investigated"


According to Orbite's website, "A NI 43-101 compliant technical report on the disclosure of information relating to mineral projects in Canada indicates that the clay deposit at the Grande-Vallée property contains, conservatively estimating a density of 2 tonnes per cubic metre, 800 million to 1 billion tonnes of "indicated mineral resources" in the first 100 metres depth of the Marin sector alone. The property is strategically located near several deepwater ports and across the St. Lawrence River from the province's major aluminum smelters."  
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