Focus Graphite Inc. announced the results from the company's 2016 infill and extension drilling program at its wholly owned Lac Tétépisca Graphite Project ("the Project") located southwest of the Manicouagan reservoir in the Côte-Nord administrative region of north-eastern Québec. The results of 2016 drilling program (18 holes; total: 2,424 m) combined with the results of the maiden core drilling program carried out on the Project in 2014, 16 holes; total: 1,874 m will form the basis of an initial Mineral Resource Estimate, planned to commence in first quarter of 2017, to be followed by a Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) in second quarter or third quarter. In 2016, 18 HQ-diameter holes (total: 2,424 m;) were drilled to test the continuity of the graphitic mineralization within the "Manicouagan-Ouest Graphitic Corridor" with respect to the variability of graphitic carbon thickness and grades. Fifteen (15) holes intersected significant graphitic mineralization with grades ranging from 5.6% Graphitic Carbon (Cg1) to 19.35% Cg over a minimum true thickness2 of 6.2 m. The Manicouagan-Ouest Graphitic Corridor is a linear kilometer-scale geophysical Magnetic (MAG) - Electromagnetic (EM) anomaly that is now drilled-tested over a 1,000 m strike length. The main graphite-bearing zone is 85 m wide on average, with drilling down to approximately 100 m.