At Advanced Primary Minerals ("APM") our mission is to provide the highest quality product from our premium quality primary kaolin resource and to exceed our customer's expectations in quality, delivery, and price. This will be achieved through our highly skilled and dedicated employees, our performance enhancing industrial mineral products, and our new state-of-the-art processing facility and proprietary manufacturing process.

On February 27, 2009 Erdene Resource Development Corp ("Erdene") (TSX:ERD) and Beta Minerals Inc. ("Beta") announced the closing of the transactions contemplated by the Amended and Restated Letter Agreement dated January 23, 2009 (the "Agreement"), among Erdene, Beta and Deepstep Kaolin Company LLC ("Deepstep"). Pursuant to the Agreement, Erdene and Deepstep exchanged all of the outstanding common shares of Erdene Materials Corporation ("EMC"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Erdene, for common shares of Beta giving Erdene a controlling interest in Beta. Upon completion of the Transaction, EMC became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Resulting Issuer. The Resulting Issuer changed its name to "Advanced Primary Materials Corporation" ("APM").

EMC has been active in Georgia and South Carolina for over 10 years and spent over $15 million exploring for, evaluating, extensively testing and securing high quality primary kaolin resources. EMC has also operated an industrial minerals laboratory in Eatonton, Georgia since 1998.

KaMin LLC, formerly J.M. Huber Corp., has been mining primary kaolin clays from the company's Lucky Strike property since 2003 to produce their HuberPrimeTM LWC paper product for a multi-national paper company. APM owns or controls through long-term leases, a number of high-quality primary kaolin deposits in Georgia with a total resource of 25.5 million tons (Measured and Indicated). APM properties located in McDuffie County, Georgia will provide the initial crude kaolin to support the APM business plan. McDuffie County properties contain just under 10 million tons of the company's highest quality primary kaolin resource.

The APM primary kaolin has unique attributes including the ability to achieve exceptionally high brightness, it's high aspect ratio enabling superior optical and coverage qualities, the ability, in certain paint and coating applications, to displace titanium dioxide which sells for approximately $2,500/ton, the ability to meet a wide range of chemical specifications and to provide superior casting rates in sanitary-ware ceramic applications.