Alabama Graphite appoints Moore as adviser

Jan 3, 2017

ALABAMA GRAPHITE CORP. APPOINTS RANDY A. MOORE, FORMER PRESIDENT OF LEADING U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE BATTERY MANUFACTURER EAGLEPICHER TECHNOLOGIES, AS STRATEGIC ADVISOR

Alabama Graphite Corp. has appointed Randy A. Moore as strategic adviser to the company.

Mr. Moore is the former President of U.S. Department of Defense multi-chemistry battery manufacturer, EaglePicher Technologies, LLC. EaglePicher is the leading producer of high-reliability batteries and energetic devices for the defense, aerospace and commercial industries, and provides significant experience and broad capability in battery electrochemistry. Mr. Moore led EaglePicher for nearly eight years, until the end of 2015, overseeing significant growth and was directly responsible for EaglePicher’s 100,000-square foot Lithium Ion Center of Excellence manufacturing facility in Joplin, Missouri. Mr. Moore is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of U.S.-based ZAF Energy Systems, Inc., a company that develops and commercializes state-of-the-art, next-generation battery technologies, and is a founding member, former Chairman, and current member of the Board of Directors of National Association of Advanced Technology Batteries International (“NAATBatt International”), a U.S.-based, not-for-profit trade association commercializing advanced electrochemical energy-storage technology for emerging, high-tech applications.

Mr. Moore brings more than 35 years of senior operational, defense and international experience to Alabama Graphite Corp. Prior to EaglePicher, Mr. Moore served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Kollsman, Inc., an operating unit of Elbit Systems that develops advanced avionics and electro-optic instruments and systems for aerospace, defense and medical applications. He also spent five years at Kaman Corporation where he ran a new strategic business unit providing aerospace structures for civilian OEMs and top DoD contractors and directly to DoD components. Mr. Moore also served in management and operations positions at Westinghouse, E-Systems/Raytheon and Lucent Technologies, where he oversaw numerous programs related to DoD programs in electromagnetics, energy storage, radio frequency and acoustic sensors, and communications.

A retired Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force, Mr. Moore spent a combined 27 years in the active and reserve Air Force where he served in various capacities, including contracting officer in the Office of Scientific Research and as a special agent in a counterintelligence capacity for the Office of Special Investigations. Mr. Moore completed his undergraduate degree in Marketing and Management at Texas Lutheran University and received his MBA from Southern Illinois University.

Donald Baxter, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Executive Director, of AGC stated, “I’d like to extend a very warm welcome to my fellow NAATBatt director Randy Moore. There is no one who understands the nuances of the U.S. DoD battery landscape as well as Randy. His vast experience and expertise will undoubtedly prove invaluable to AGC as we move forward with our ‘DoD First’ business strategy of marketing our American sourced and manufactured Coated Spherical Purified Graphite (CSPG) – trademarked as ULTRACSPG(TM) – for lithium-ion batteries to United States Department of Defense lithium-ion battery manufacturers and contractors. I cannot underscore the significance of Randy’s appointment as AGC’s Strategic Advisor.”

About Alabama Graphite Corp.

Alabama Graphite Corp. is a Canadian-based flake graphite exploration and development company as well as an aspiring battery materials production and technology company. The Company operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Alabama Graphite Company Inc. (a company registered in the state of Alabama). With an advancing flake graphite project in the United States of America, Alabama Graphite Corp intends to become a reliable, long-term U.S. supplier of specialty high-purity graphite products. A highly experienced team leads the Company with more than 100 years of combined graphite mining, graphite processing, specialty graphite products and applications, and graphite sales experience. Alabama Graphite Corp. is focused on the exploration and development of its flagship Coosa Graphite Project in Coosa County, Alabama, and its Bama Mine Project in Chilton County, Alabama as well the research and development of its proprietary manufacturing and technological processing process of battery materials.

Alabama Graphite Corp. holds a 100% interest in the mineral rights for these two U.S.-based graphite projects, which are both located on private land. The two projects encompass more than 43,000 acres and are located in a geopolitically stable, mining-friendly jurisdiction with significant historical production of crystalline flake graphite in the flake graphite belt of central Alabama, also known as the Alabama Graphite Belt (source: U.S. Bureau of Mines). A significant portion of the Alabama deposits are characterized by graphite-bearing material that is oxidized and has been weathered into extremely soft rock. Both projects have infrastructure in place, are within close proximity to major highways, rail, power and water, and are approximately three hours (by truck or train) to the Port of Mobile, the Alabama Port Authority’s deep-seawater port and the ninth largest port by tonnage in the United States (source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers/USACE). The state of Alabama’s hospitable climate allows for year-round mining operations and the world’s largest marble quarry (which operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year in Sylacauga, Alabama), is located within a 30-minute drive of the Coosa Graphite Project.

On November 30, 2015, Alabama Graphite Corp. announced the results of PEA for the Coosa Graphite Project, indicating a potentially low-cost project with potential positive economics. Please refer to the Company’s technical report titled “Alabama Graphite Corp. Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) on the Coosa graphite Project, Alabama, USA” dated November 27, 2015, prepared by independent engineering firms AGP Mining Consultants Inc. and Metal Mining Consultants Inc., and filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.