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People and Places July 2010

June 21, 2010 - 00:00 GMT

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Greg Bowes, Industrial Minerals Inc.; Ronald G. Brenneman, Allied Mineral Products; Gerard Buffiere, Gilles Michel, Imerys; Pierre-Andre de Chalendar, Saint-Gobain; Robert P. Jornayvaz III, Intrepid Potash; Mackenzie I. Watson, Quest Rare Minerals

The company owns 51% of Northern Graphite Corp., which is developing the Bissett Creek graphite deposit, east of North Bay, Ontario.

Bowes, also CEO of Northern Graphite, has over 25 years experience in the resource and engineering industries, and holds an MBA from Queens University and a BSc Geology from the University of Waterloo.

What are your chief objectives as CEO?

Corporately, we intend to list Northern Graphite on the Toronto Venture Exchange. The plan is for Industrial Minerals Inc. to dividend out its Northern Graphite shares to shareholders and essentially disappear. The net effect is that the Bissett Creek graphite project will be owned by a company listed on the Toronto Venture Exchange in Canada rather than an OTC-BB in the USA.

How do you see Northern Graphite’s status and future?

With respect to the project, we intend to be in a position to make a construction...

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