Orbite Announces Filing of Preliminary Short Form Prospectus

MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwired - June 27, 2013) -

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Orbite Aluminae Inc. (TSX:ORT)(OTCQX:EORBF) ("Orbite" or the "Corporation") announced today that it has filed a preliminary short form prospectus (the "Prospectus") with the securities regulatory authorities in each of the provinces of Canada, in connection with a "best efforts" marketed offering of class A shares and warrants of Orbite (the "Offering").

The Corporation has retained Euro Pacific Canada Inc. to lead the Offering together with National Bank Financial Inc. (collectively the "Agents").

Final pricing and determination of the number of class A shares and warrants to be sold pursuant to the Offering will occur prior to the filing of the final short form prospectus in respect of the Offering. Closing of the Offering is subject to final pricing and regulatory approval.

The net proceeds from the Offering will be used primarily to complete the Corporation's high-purity alumina plant located in Cap-Chat, Quebec and for general corporate and working capital purposes.

Concurrent with the filing of the Prospectus, the Corporation has withdrawn its preliminary short form base shelf prospectus dated March 28, 2013.

A copy of the Corporation's preliminary short form prospectus is available on the SEDAR website at www.sedar.com.

This release does not constitute an offer for sale of securities nor a solicitation for offers to buy any securities. The securities referred to in this press release have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act"), or any state securities law and may not be offered or sold to, or for the account or benefit of, persons in the United States or "U.S. persons", as such term is defined in Regulation S promulgated under the U.S. Securities Act, unless registered under the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or an exemption from such registration is available.

About Orbite

Orbite Aluminae Inc. is a Canadian Corporation with innovative and proprietary processes that is expected to produce alumina and other high-value by-products, such as rare earth and rare metal oxides, at one of the lowest costs in the industry, without generating any wastes, using feedstocks that include aluminous clay, kaolin, nepheline, bauxite, red mud and fly ash. Orbite is currently operating and optimizing its first commercial high-purity alumina (HPA) production plant in Cap-Chat, Québec. Orbite has completed the basic engineering for a proposed smelter-grade alumina (SGA) production plant, which would use clay mined from its Grande-Vallée deposit. Orbite signed an exclusive worldwide collaborative agreement with Veolia Environmental Services for the remediation of red mud using the Orbite processes with the intent to construct a Veolia-operated plant. The Corporation has an intellectual property portfolio that contains 14 IP families and owns the intellectual property rights to nine patents and 40 pending patent applications in 10 different countries.

For more information on the Corporation or to download our corporate presentation please visit: www.orbitealuminae.com

Forward-looking statements

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