Southern Arc Minerals Inc.

Providing Shareholders with Exposure to Highly Prospective Exploration Assets while Minimizing Risk

Southern Arc is a Canadian company incorporated in British Columbia in 2004. The Company is focused on enhancing shareholder value through strategic investments in mineral resource companies with a focus on gold and copper-gold.

Southern Arc's management team identifies highly prospective assets in politically safe jurisdictions and seeks to unlock their value by providing strategic investments, proven technical skills, global knowledge, and increased access to industry relationships.

Southern Arc's current portfolio of investments includes:

• An investment (and largest shareholder) in Japan Gold Corp. - a Canadian junior exploration company exploring for gold in Japan;

• An investment in Tethyan Resources plc - a junior exploration company exploring for copper, gold and other base metals within the Tethyan Mineral Belt in Eastern Europe;

• An investment in Rise Gold Corp. - an exploration-stage mining company which owns the historic past producing Idaho-Maryland gold mine located in Nevada County, California, USA.

• An investment in PT Ancora Indonesia Resources Tbk, - an Indonesian public company listed on the Jakarta Stock Exchange