Orbite Acquires New Claims, Expands Existing Property West

MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - April 24, 2012) - Orbite Aluminae Inc. ("Orbite" or the "Company") (TSX:ORT) is pleased to announce the acquisition of 952 new claims covering a total of 543.2 km² on a territory extending over 170 km ranging from Quebec city East to Cap-Chat, Quebec, the location site of Orbite's high-purity alumina production facility. This strategic new acquisition covers a substantial portion of the aluminous shale-bearing Orignal Formation, and reaches out to the Company's existing property of Grande-Vallée, the site of which currently comprises of 110 claims, totalling 66.7 km² of land.

Further to the completion of this acquisition, and in the perspective of moving forward with the search of opportunities for new asset resources, the Company initiated an acquisition program to develop aluminous shale-bearing claims in Southwestern Quebec. This initiative resulted in adding new claims, also from the area of Saint-Apolinaire, West of Quebec city - where natural gas is readily available - to its current set of properties.

Orbite plans on initiating field work as early as the beginning of the summer 2012 on all of its new claims in order to successfully achieve exploration, and move towards the establishment of new aluminous shale resources for the Company.

About Orbite

Orbite currently owns a total of 60 984 hectares, in Southwestern Quebec, including 100% of the mining rights on a Grande-Vallée property totaling 6 665 hectares, the site of an aluminous clay deposit located 23 km south of Grande-Vallée, and a 2 600 m² full scale high purity alumina production plant in Cap Chat, in the Gaspé region. An NI 43-101 report issued in August 2011 identified a Resource of between 800 million and one billion tonnes of aluminous clay in part of the deposit containing a series of mineral elements. The Company also owns the intellectual property rights to a unique Canada and U.S. patented process for extracting alumina from various types of aluminous ores and for which patents are also pending in other countries. www.orbitealuminae.com

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