Northern Graphite Completes $1.4 Million Non- Brokered Private Placement Proceeds to help finance Baie-Comeau Battery Anode Material facility feasibility study, working capital Lead Investment by The BMI Group represents an endorsement of Northern's Mine-to-Market
Northern Graphite Completes $1.4 Million Non-
Brokered Private Placement
Proceeds to help finance Baie-Comeau Battery Anode Material facility feasibility study, working
capital
Lead Investment by The BMI Group represents an endorsement of Northern's Mine-to-Market
strategy
Ottawa, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - October 10, 2025) - Northern Graphite Corporation
(TSXV: NGC) (OTCQB: NGPHF) (FSE: 0NG) (XSTU: 0NG)
(
the "
Company
" or "
Northern
") is
pleased to announce it has completed a closing of its previously announced non-brokered
private
placement financing (the "
Private Placement
") under which it has issued 13,114,546 common shares
of the Company (the "
Offered Shares
") at a price C$0.11 per Offered Share for aggregate gross
proceeds of C$1,442,600. The BMI Group was lead investor under the Private Placement.
The net proceeds from the Private Placement will be used to initiate a feasibility study on Northern's
planned Battery Anode Material ("
BAM
") facility in Baie-Comeau, Québec, targeted for completion
within the next 12 months, and for working capital and corporate expenses.
"Securing the participation of a sophisticated investor like The BMI Group in this financing is a strong
endorsement of Northern, our assets and our strategy," said Northern Chief Executive Officer Hugues
Jacquemin. "Momentum is shifting for graphite as governments increasingly prioritize secure, domestic
supply chains for critical minerals, and Canada is no exception. With demand projected to surge, this
financing will help Northern to advance one of the most strategically important BAM projects in North
America."
"Our participation in this financing solidifies the partnership between BMI and Northern Graphite with a
meaningful investment toward the Baie-Comeau strategy," said Paul Veldman, CEO of The BMI Group.
"We see tremendous potential to repurpose this site into a facility producing graphite anode material
that is critical to the global energy transition and to re-establish Baie-Comeau as an anchor of Quebec's
clean industrial future."
In April, Northern and The BMI Group announced a partnership to evaluate the establishment of a BAM
facility at the former paper mill site in Baie-Comeau being redeveloped by BMI as the Norderra
multimodal industrial hub. Reactivating this brownfield site would provide a faster time to market
compared to a greenfield alternative, supporting Québec and Canada's critical minerals strategy while
creating new jobs and economic growth in the region. Strategically located on a deepwater port with
access to global markets, the Baie-Comeau facility would process graphite concentrates from
Northern's Lac des Iles mine in Québec, the only producing graphite mine in North America, as well as
from the Company's large-scale Bissett Creek project in Ontario and its Okanjande mine in Namibia.
Battery anode material, the single largest component of lithium-ion batteries, is produced by upgrading
graphite mine concentrate to the exacting specifications of electric vehicle battery manufacturers.
Northern's Baie-Comeau project directly addresses a key missing link in North America's energy
transition supply chain, providing the domestic processing capacity needed to turn Canadian graphite
into battery-grade anode material.
A finder's fee was paid in connection with the closing of the Private Placement to Haywood Securities
Inc. (the "
Finder
") consisting of a cash fee in the amount of $29,260 representing an aggregate fee of
7% of the Offered Shares sold to investors introduced by the Finder.
The Offered Shares issued in the Private Placement are subject to the statutory hold period of four
months and one day from the date of issuance expiring on February 10, 2026 in accordance with
applicable Canadian securities legislation. The Company may issue up to an additional 6,885,454
Offered Shares under a follow-on closing under the Private Placement. There is no assurance a follow-
on closing under the Private Placement will occur. The Private Placement is subject to the final
acceptance of the TSX Venture Exchange.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to sell any of the securities
in the United States. The securities being offered under the Private Placement have not been, and will
not be, registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "
1933 Act
"), or any
state securities laws of any state in the United States and accordingly may not be offered or sold within
the United States or to any person in the United States or to U.S. persons unless registered under the
1933 Act and any applicable state securities laws, or exemption from such registration requirements is
available.
About Northern Graphite
Northern is a Canadian, TSX Venture Exchange listed company that is the only flake graphite producing
company in North America.
Northern is focused on becoming a world leader in producing natural
graphite and upgrading it into high-value products critical to the green economy, including anode
material for lithium-ion batteries/EVs, fuel cells and graphene, as well as advanced industrial
technologies. The Company's mine-to-battery strategy is spearheaded by its Battery Materials Group,
which has a fully equipped, state-of-the-art laboratory in Frankfurt.
Northern's graphite assets include the producing Lac des Iles mine in Quebec where the Company is
boosting output to meet growing demand from industrial customers and coming demand from North
American battery makers. The Company also owns the large-scale Bissett Creek project in Ontario and
the fully permitted Okanjande graphite mine in Namibia, which is currently on care and maintenance, and
represents an opportunity to substantially increase graphite production at a lower cost and with a shorter
time to market than most competing projects. All projects have "battery quality" graphite and are located
close to infrastructure in politically stable jurisdictions.
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Pav Jordan, VP of Communications
Email:
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Please visit the Company's website at
https://www.northerngraphite.com/home/
, the Company's profile
on
www.sedarplus.ca
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"could", or "should" occur. Forward-looking statements in this news release include statements
regarding, among others, the Company's plans to develop its Baie-Comeau Battery Anode Material
facility, extend the mine life of its LDI mine, intentions to restart the Okanjande mine in Namibia and
development plans for its other projects including Bissett Creek. All such forward-looking statements
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agreed; social or labour unrest; changes in commodity prices; unexpected failure or inadequacy of
infrastructure and the failure of ongoing and contemplated studies to deliver anticipated results or
results that would justify and support continued studies, development or operations and the inability to
raise required financing. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking
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