Marubeni Corporation

Syrah Resources Limited (ASX:SYR) (OTCMKTS:SYAAF) (Syrah or the Company) is pleased to announce that the Company has signed a Spherical Graphite Offtake Agreement with Marubeni Corporation (Marubeni) (TYO:8002), a major Japanese integrated trading and investment conglomerate.

Syrah Resources Limited (ASX:SYR) (OTCMKTS:SYAAF) , Syrah or the Company) is pleased to announce that the Company has signed an Offtake Agreement for natural flake graphite with Marubeni Corporation (Marubeni), a major Japanese integrated trading and investment conglomerate.

Emerging bauxite exploration and development company, Australian Bauxite Limited (ASX:ABZ) has 40 bauxite tenements totalling more than 8,700 km2 covering the core of the Eastern Australian Bauxite Province.

Emerging bauxite exploration and development company, Australian Bauxite Limited (ASX:ABZ) has received laboratory results from its December 2011 drilling campaign at Taralga near Goulburn, southern NSW. Results from hole TG626 at Mt Rae and several nearby holes confirmed the discovery of the company's thickest high-grade bauxite intersection - possibly one of the thickest bauxite intersections in Australia.

Asian Activities Report for January 18, 2012 includes: DeNA Co., Ltd. (TYO:2432), Japan's leading social gaming platform operator, and NetDragon Websoft Inc. (HKG:0777), a leading online game developer and mobile internet platform operator in China, have agreed to form a joint venture in the first quarter of 2012 to develop and operate mobile social games for the Chinese market; Mitsubishi Materials Corporation (TYO:5711), Furukawa Co., Ltd. (TYO:5715), Dowa Holdings Co.,Ltd. (TYO:5714), and Marubeni Corporation (TYO:8002) have announced the extended mine of life for their jointly invested Huckleberry copper project in Canada; Goldwin Inc. (TYO:8111), Japan-based manufacturer of highest quality authentic sportswear and equipment says that it will invest 1,800,000 Swiss Franc to establish a wholly-owned subsidiary in Switzerland.

Asian Activities Report for January 5, 2012 includes: China Titans Energy Technology Group (HKG:2188) says that its subsidiary Zhuhai Titans Automatic Technology has received an Outstanding Contribution Enterprise Award from the local government of Hengqin New Area, Zhuhai City, China; CK Life Sciences (HKG:0775) has signed an agreement to acquire Australia-based Peaty Trading Group and its related assets for approximately A$31 million; Marubeni Corporation (TYO:8002) says that its subsidiary Marubeni Access is now providing international IP-VPN service, named VECTANT Global IP-VPN to Japanese companies' overseas subsidiaries; Toray Industries Inc. (TYO:3402) has restructured its research and development bases in Shanghai and Nantong, China.

Asian Activities Report for December 15, 2011 includes: DeNA Co., Ltd. (TYO:2432) has agreed to form a strategic alliance with Alibaba Cloud Computing to provide DeNA's Mobage social gaming platform to consumers and developers in China; Marubeni Corporation (TYO:8002) has agreed to acquire a 40% equity interest in APT Allgas Energy Pty Ltd; Japan Airlines and WestJet Airlines (TSE:WJA), a low-cost airline in Canada have signed a codeshare agreement which will place the "JL" flight indicator on WestJet-operated flights between Vancouver And six Canadian cities - Calgary, Edmonton, Kelowna, Montreal, Toronto and Winnipeg, from December 15, 2011; Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (TYO:4005) and Nabaltec AG (ETR:NTG) of Germany have been in discussions about collaborating on their Alumina and Aluminum Trihydroxide businesses.

Australian Bauxite Limited (ASX:ABZ) advises that it has released a webcast with CEO Ian Levy.

Australian Bauxite Limited (ASX:ABZ) (ABx) and Marubeni Corporation (TYO:8002) (Marubeni) have concluded a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly conduct a pre-feasibility study in relation to the Goulburn-Taralga bauxite project located in New South Wales, Australia.

Australian shares fell for a second straight session on Thursday as investors were disappointed with the US existing home sales data and not expecting any inspiring results from new home sales. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index lost 72.2 points, or 1.6 per cent, to 4486.1 points, while the broader All Ordinaries index was off 71.9 points, or 1.6 per cent, at 4509.4.