Orbite Aluminae Retains the Services of Consulting Firm Roche and Geologist Alex W. Knox

MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - March 12, 2012) - Orbite Aluminae Inc. (TSX:ORT)(the "Company") has mandated the engineering firm Roche Ltd., Consulting Group ("Roche") and geologist Alex Knox, M.Sc., to issue an audit report (the "Audit"), which will focus on portions of the Preliminary Economic Assessment Technical Report (scoping study), published on January 12, 2012 ("Technical Report"). The Audit to be conducted by Roche consists of validating the information in sections 7 to 14 and 21 (related to alternative energy scenarios) of the Technical Report.

Roche has assigned its Vice-President Mining and Ore Processing, Guy Saucier, Eng., to the project. Mr. Saucier will be assisted by geologist Alex Knox, M.Sc., among others. The Autorité des Marchés Financiers recognizes that these two professionals are independent Qualified Persons under Regulation 43-101 Respecting Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (Quebec).

Alex W. Knox, M.Sc., P.Geol.

Alex Knox is one of Canada's foremost rare earths experts. His more than 35 years' experience in mineral exploration includes prospect generation, regional analysis, and economic evaluation. For the first decade of his career, Mr. Knox was a mineral exploration geologist with Unocal Canada Ltd., where he studied and explored rare earths on the company's sites at the time when Molybdenum Corporation of America (Molycorp) was part of the Unocal Group in the U.S. During this period, he explored a number of carbonatite and alkalic rock complexes in Canada (including the Kipawa Alkalic and Eldor Carbonatite complexes in Quebec) for niobium and rare earth elements. Since 1993, Mr. Knox has acted in a consulting role, and since 2008, he has been involved with mining exploration projects involving rare earths in Quebec and Labrador, most notably with Matamec Exploration.

Mr. Knox has direct experience in clay-based rare earth elements, and his services as a rare earth expert are regularly retained by companies in Canada and around the world. Mr. Knox is a Fellow of the Geological Association of Canada.

Guy Saucier, Eng.

Mr. Saucier has more than 27 years of experience in mining geology, exploration, and corporate development. His expertise includes resources evaluation and open-pit mine design and planning. He has been involved in several scoping and feasibility studies and has participated in global projects involving gold, base metals, iron, coal, bauxite, and industrial minerals.

About Roche

Roche Ltd, Consulting Group has for many years worked in close cooperation with the mining industry in Quebec and abroad, including Africa, Latin America and New Caledonia. Roche specialists provide a comprehensive range of services required for developing mining projects, from the first stages of development through plant construction, startup and engineering. Its wide-ranging expertise means clients have access to a one-stop shop for all the expertise they need to carry out their projects, from mining development and ore processing to mining environment and infrastructure.

About Orbite

Orbite owns 100% of the mining rights on a Grande-Vallée property of approximately 6 441 hectares, the site of an aluminous clay deposit located 23 km south of Grande-Vallée, and a 2 600 m² full scale pilot plant in Cap Chat, in the Gaspé region. An NI 43-101 report issued in August 2011, identified an Indicated Resource of about 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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