CVMR® Press Releases & Current Events

11 Oct 2007, Report from China Financial Star www.cnfstar.com

JJNI's nickel carbonyl project, with a capacity of 2000 tonnes per annum, was funded by public offering of JJNI shares. This project uses the atmospheric pressure carbonyl technology of CVMR^®, a Canadian company. Construction of the plant has been completed. JJNI expects the plant will be put into production in October, 2007.

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Philippines ministerial announcement: CVMR^® Exploration Rights

20 April 2007, Manila, Philippines

The Honorable Angelo T. Reyes, Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, announced that the Philippine Government has awarded exploration rights in the Province of Eastern Samar to CVMR^® Resources (Philippines) Inc. CVMR^® Resources is a subsidiary of Chemical Vapour Metal Refining Inc. (CVMR^®), a Canadian corporation specialized in highly integrated mining and refining of nickel, cobalt and PGMs with proprietary, state-of-the-art vapour metallurgy refining technology.

CVMR^® expressed its appreciation for the confidence in it expressed by the Philippine Government. CVMR^® Resources has undertaken to carry out a regional geological reconnaissance survey in compliance with the 2-year exploration work program that had been previously submitted by the corporation to the Mines & Geosciences Bureau. The surveys will identify regions for exploratory auger drilling to begin definition of the occurrence and nature of the nickel mineral deposit at CVMR^® Resources' tenement in Eastern Samar.

It is expected that a nickel laterite resource base will eventually be delineated, that would be sufficiently large to support an economically viable commercial operation, producing at least 30,000 tonnes of nickel products per annum. Such a project would provide direct employment for at least 1500 individuals, and hundreds more support personnel, and would contribute to a robust economic activity in the Province of Eastern Samar, with particular benefits flowing to the three municipalities of Quinapondan, Balangiga and Giporlos. This project will contribute to the advancement of the Philippines' dynamic mining industry by establishing a world class fully integrated processing and refining operation in the Philippines.

A vote of thanks by Kamran M. Khozan, President CEO of CVMR^®

20 April 2007, Manila, Philippines

Let me start by thanking Honorable Sec. Gen. Reyes for his leadership, support and the tough due diligence he put our organization through until he and his officials were satisfied that CVMR^® was qualified for this permit.

The scrutiny and the process we went through was thorough, and CVMR^® is proud to have qualified. In this process, we were impressed by the professionalism, dedication to duty and thoroughness of the executives of the Department of Environment & Natural Resources and all its Bureaus under Gen. Reyes' leadership.

CVMR^® is ready, willing and able to start exploration and testing of the sites in Samar as of today. At CVMR^® Resources (Philippines) Inc., 96 % of our management and engineers and staff are Filipinos. We are also proud of the fact that in this process we will use all local subcontractors. Our General Manager, Mr. Garzon Duenas is a veteran of mining and refining industry in the Philippines. This project will commence under his management. We are proud to have one of the safest records in our process over the past 25 years with zero accident and absolutely neutral environment environmental impact.

As our presentation to Gen. Reyes indicated, we will be hiring local people immediately and Samar will start experiencing the true economic effect of our presence in that Province very shortly.

I would be remiss if I did not thank the Canadian Foreign Affairs and especially Ambassador Peter Sutherland for his continuous support, advice and hard work on our behalf. We are grateful.

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At a press conference in Berlin,
Germany, 2009.

President and C.E.O. Kamran Khozan explaining CVMR^®’s strategy for mining and refining nickel in the Philippines

The offices of CVMR^® in Manila, Philippines

CVMR^®’s meeting with the Philippine Government’s Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources in Manila. From left to right: Horacio C. Ramos, Director of Mines & Geosciences Bureau; Marylin A. Vitorio - Acquino, LLB, CVMR^®’s Corporate Secretary; Kamran M. Khozan, CVMR^®’s President and C.E.O.; Gen.(rtd) Angelo T. Reyes, Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Philippines; Garzon Duenas, CVMR^®’s Managing Director; Ramon J.P. Paje, Undersecretary for Mines & Geosciences; Attorney Allan Verman Y. Ong, CVMR^®’s Corporate Assistant Secretary

Signing an agreement with Jinchuan Nonferrous Metals Company Co. Ltd. in Gansu Province, China

Signing and agreement with Jilin Jien Nickel Industry Co. Ltd. in Jilin Province, China

Jinchuan trainees at CVMR^® in Canada

CVMR^® inspecting Jinchuan’s vapour metallurgical plant in China

Kamran M. Khozan, President and C.E.O. of CVMR^®, addressing the conference “Jiangxi Overseas Listing Summit” (March 2005)

Opening day of the conference “Jiangxi Overseas Listing Summit” sponsored by CVMR^® to assist CVMR^®’s corporate clients in the Province of Jiangxi, China, to obtain investment capital in order to upgrade their technologies

The Governor of Jianxi Province China, meeting with Kamran M. Khozan, President and C.E.O. of CVMR^® accompanied by Amy McQuade, Vice-President of Amex Stock Exchange

Kamran M. Khozan, President & CEO in Yemen, near one of the CVMR^® concessions

Kamran M. Khozan, President & CEO of CVMR^® meeting with CVMR^®’s Yemen team and a representative of the Ministry of Oil & Minerals Geological Survey Mineral Resources Board