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First Point Minerals Reports 2012 Decar Drilling Intersects 563 Metres of 0.156% Magnetically-Recovered Nickel

Vancouver, October 25, 2012 – First Point Minerals Corp. (FPX-TSX.V) (“First Point” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce results for the first four of 27 resource definition holes completed during this year’s drilling campaign at the Decar nickel-iron alloy project in central British Columbia. One of the main objectives of the program was to […]

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First Point Minerals Defines New Drill Target at Orca Property in Northern B.C.

Vancouver, October 11, 2012 — First Point Minerals Corp. (FPX-TSX.V) (“First Point” or the “Company”) is pleased to report that its 2012 regional mapping and sampling program has defined a promising, new nickel-iron alloy drill target at the 100%-owned Orca property in the Dease Lake area of northern British Columbia. The target at Orca measures

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First Point Minerals Intersects 316 metres of 0.1% Nickel-In-Alloy at Klow

Vancouver, October 4, 2012 – First Point Minerals Corp. (FPX-TSX.V) (“First Point” or the “Company”) is pleased to report that it has intersected a zone of nickel-iron alloy mineralization carrying encouraging grades in a first round of wide-spaced drilling at the 100%-owned Klow property in central British Columbia. Five holes totalling 1,579 metres tested a

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First Point Minerals Completes Widely-Spaced Exploration Drill Program at Wale

Vancouver, October 2, 2012 — First Point Minerals Corp. (FPX-TSX.V) (“First Point” or the “Company”) is pleased to report that it has completed a first pass of widely-spaced exploration drilling at the 100%-owned Wale nickel alloy property in northern British Columbia, in addition to collecting a 5-tonne surface bulk-sample for metallurgical testing and market studies.

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First Point Minerals Announces Appointment of Chief Financial Officer

Vancouver, September 29, 2012 — James Gilbert, President and Chief Executive Officer of First Point Minerals Corp. (FPX-TSX.V) (“First Point” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Martin Turenne, Chartered Accountant, as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, effective September 1, 2012.

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First Point Minerals Updates Progress at Decar

Vancouver, September 21, 2012 — First Point Minerals Corp. (FPX-TSX.V) (“First Point” or the “Company”) is pleased to report on the 2012 drilling progress at the Decar nickel alloy project in central British Columbia. The Decar project is in the Preliminary Economic Assessment (“PEA”) phase, and is managed and operated by Cliffs Natural Resources Exploration

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First Point Minerals Begins Drilling Wale Nickel Alloy Target

Vancouver, August 20, 2012 — First Point Minerals Corp. (FPX-TSX.V) (“First Point” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that exploration drilling has started at the 100%-owned Wale nickel-iron alloy prospect in northern British Columbia. A proposed drill program of up to 8 widely-spaced holes totalling about 2,800 metres will test a 3-kilometre-long target area

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First Point and Cliffs Settle Arbitration Action on Decar Project

Vancouver, July 31, 2012 — First Point Minerals Corp. (FPX-TSX.V) (“First Point” or the “Company”) announces that it has agreed with Cliffs Natural Resources Exploration Canada Inc. and Cliffs Natural Resources Exploration Inc., both wholly owned subsidiaries of Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: CLF) (Paris: CLF) (collectively “Cliffs”), on a comprehensive settlement of a previously

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First Point Minerals Completes Previously Announced Follow-on Private Placement

NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES Vancouver, July 30, 2012 — First Point Minerals Corp. (FPX-TSX.V) (“First Point” or the “Company”) announces that Cliffs Natural Resources Exploration Inc., an affiliate of Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: CLF) (Paris: CLF) (“Cliffs”), has exercised its pre-emptive right to acquire sufficient

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First Point Announces Follow-on Private Placement Financing

Vancouver, July 19, 2012 — First Point Minerals Corp. (FPX-TSX.V) (“First Point” or the “Company”) announces that Cliffs Natural Resources Exploration Inc., an affiliate of Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: CLF) (Paris: CLF) (“Cliffs”), has notified First Point of its intention to exercise its pre-emptive right, which was granted under the terms of the Option

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