Mason Graphite Inc. announced that following discussions with certain of its significant shareholders and other stakeholders, the board of directors of the Company has decided to increase the size of the Board from six directors to seven directors, and to appoint Ms. Adree DeLazzer as an additional independent director of the Company, effective following the Annual General and Special Meetings of Shareholders of the Company to be held virtually on December 20, 2022. Adree DeLazzerMs. DeLazzer has over 15 years of experience in greenfield and brownfield exploration, with a focus on precious metals, rare earth metals (REE), uranium and diamonds. Ms. DeLazzer joined Royal Fox Gold Inc. as Vice President Exploration in September 2021 and continued in the same role with Northern Superior Resources Inc. following the merger with Royal Fox Gold.

Prior to her current role, Ms. Delazzer was with Kirkland Lake Gold Limited, where she held the position of Superintendent of Geology for the Detour Lake Gold Mine in northeastern Ontario, the second largest open pit gold producing mine in Canada, as well as Exploration Manager responsible for overseeing several multimillion-dollar exploration campaigns covering 1,000 km(2) of greenstone belt in the Abitibi. She is a skilled exploration professional geologist who was notably an integral part of the 58N zone discovery, and of the large West Detour exploration campaigns of 2020 and 2021. Prior to working for Kirkland Lake Gold and Detour Gold, Ms. DeLazzer worked as a Senior Project Geologist on multi commodity targets in Newfoundland and Labrador for Silver Spruce Resources.

She also worked as a geologist for BHP Billiton at the Ekati Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories. Ms. DeLazzer has a B.Sc. in Earth Science from Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova-Scotia, and is registered in Ontario as a professional geologist.