Separation Property

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MEGA Graphite Inc. acquired 100% ownership of the Separation Property from Pacific Iron Ore Corporation of Calgary, Alberta. The property was formerly referred to as the Separation Property under Pacific Iron Ore ownership. The property consists of 150 contiguous claim units covering an area of approximately 6,400 acres within the Separation Lake Greenstone Belt of Northwestern Ontario. The SLGB is comprised ofmetasedimentary-metavolcanic sequences intruded by mafic to felsic bodies.

The SLGB represents the easterly extension of the Bird River belt of Manitoba and has some of the highest concentration of rare-metal pegmatite mineralization in the Superior Province coupled with probably the greatest number of complex-type, petalite-subtype pegmatite occurrences in Canada. The Bird River greenstone belt has been subdivided into a number of formations, including metamorphosed meta-basalts (amphibolites) and derived volcaniclastic metasediments. In the SLGB, lithologies include predominant amphibolite (meta-basalt), volcaniclastic metasediments, iron formation, rhyolite, granite and related pegmatites, and lesser gabbroic intrusive rocks. The granite intrusion is called the Separation Rapids pluton, a highlyevolved, peraluminous granite exposed over an area of 2x4 kilometres immediately to the north of the Property.

The Property hosts a number of petalite (Lithium) and rare-metal bearing pegmatites that are part of the SLGB. These include the Big Mack, Glitter, Wolf and Rattler bodies. The Big Mack pegmatite was discovered in In 1997 and represents the largest petalite-bearing mass on the Property and is exposed over an 80 by 225 m area. The pegmatite comprises a 30 by 100 m main mass coupled with several prominent, narrow apophyses that taper towards the south and southeast.

The Glitter Pegmatite is a highly deformed, petalite-bearing pegmatite exposed along its southeastern strike-length for 75 m and achieves a maximum width of 25 m. Considerable deformation is obvious in the form of ubiquitous tectonic flames of biotiterich, metasomatized mafic metavolcanic rock along the contact which locally are traceable into tight folds contained within the petalite-rich pegmatite zone. A similar structural history to the Big Mack pegmatite is noted.

The Rattler pegmatite consists of pink weathering, pegmatite segregations, up to 7 by 12 m,hosted in the most westward-striking apophysis of the Skidder pluton. Thesegregations, which grade imperceptibly into its medium- to coarse-grained, garnet-biotitegranite host, are composed of tourmaline-muscovite potassic pegmatite. The pegmatite contains 5 to 10% coarse books of silver to light brown muscovite up to 10 cm thick.

The Wolf Pegmatite is a mass of pink-weathering pegmatite occupies a 40 by 100 m area within a west-striking apophysis from the Skidder pluton. The zone consists mostly of tourmaline-garnet-biotite-muscovite potassic pegmatitic leucogranite characterized by graphic intergrowths of quartz-potassium feldspar up to 0.7 by 1 m and abundant coarse books of silver-coloured muscovite up to 5 cm thick.