Focus Metals Inc. Information To Be Available Through Standard & Poor's Market Access Program


OTTAWA, ONTARIO --(Marketwire - July 13, 2011) - Focus Metals Inc. (TSX VENTURE:FMS)(OTCQX:FCSMF) announced today that its company information will be made available via Standard & Poor's Market Access Program, an information distribution service that enables subscribing publicly traded companies to have their company information disseminated to users of Standard & Poor's MarketScope Advisor.

The company information to be made available through this program includes share price, volume, dividends, shares outstanding, company financial position, and earnings. Standard & Poor's MarketScope Advisor is an Internet-based research engine used by more than 100,000 investment advisors. A public version of the site is available at www.marketscope.com.

In addition, information about companies in Standard & Poor's Market Access Program will be available via S&P's Stock Guide database, which is distributed electronically to virtually all major quote vendors. As part of the program, a full description of Focus will also be published in the Daily News section of Standard Corporation Records, a recognized securities manual for secondary trading in up to 38 states under their Blue Sky Laws.

About Focus Metals Inc.

Focus Metals is a Canadian graphite mine developer with its flagship asset, the Lac Knife project, located in northern Quebec, near the cities of Wabush and Labrador City.

Lac Knife is a uniquely high-grade flake graphite project with extensive historical work completed. The company is also earning a 50% stake in its Kwyjibo, Quebec, rare earths and copper project in partnership with SOQUEM, the commercial mining and investment company owned by the Quebec government.

Focus Metals also owns unexplored platinum, gold and copper properties in the Labrador Trough region of Northern Quebec.

In February this year, the company announced its intention to form a U.S.-Canada-Asia joint venture to develop, patent and secure global rights for applications of graphene technologies. The joint venture is based in New York City and is headed by the eminent American research scientist Dr. Gordon Chiu.

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Contact Information:

Focus Metals Inc.
Gary Economo
President & CEO
1-613-691-1091 ext.101
gary@focusmetals.ca

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