Critical Elements Corporation Retains the Howard Group for Strategic Investor Communications

MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwired - March 20, 2014) - Critical Elements Corporation (TSX VENTURE:CRE)(OTCQX:CRECF)(FRANKFURT:F12) is pleased to announce that it has retained The Howard Group as its strategic investor communications advisor. The Howard Group will direct both traditional and online initiatives targeting the investment community and the investing public.

The Agreement has a term of one year. The remuneration payable to the Howard Group will be $7,500 per month plus GST and the Company shall grant to the Howard Group 450,000 incentive stock options which shall be vested and shall be exercisable at $0.20 per share. The Agreement together with the granting of the stock options are subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.

Since 1988, The Howard Group has provided comprehensive investor and capital markets programs, business development solutions, strategic planning and financing services to public companies. The Howard Group is associated with the Insight Limited Partnership II, which invests in micro and small cap companies.

The Insight II Limited Partnership currently owns 300,000 shares of Critical Elements.

In addition to its ongoing services, The Howard Group Inc. will be providing an ongoing commentary on CRE's activities in its "Insight" online newsletter. Interested parties are encouraged to subscribe to the newsletter feed: http://howardgroupinsightnewsletter.blogspot.com/

About Critical Elements Corporation

Critical Elements is actively developing its 100%-owned Rose lithium-tantalum flagship project located in Quebec.

A recent financial analysis of the Rose project based on price forecasts of US$260/kg ($118/lb) for Ta₂O₅ contained in a tantalite concentrate and US$6,000/t for lithium carbonate (Li₂CO₃) showed an estimated after-tax Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of 25% for the Rose project, with an estimated Net Present Value (NPV) of CA$279 million at an 8% discount rate. The payback period is estimated at 4.1 years. The pre-tax IRR is estimated at 33% and the NPV at $488 million at a discount rate of 8%. (Mineral resources that are not mineral reserves and do not have demonstrated economic viability). (See press release dated November 21, 2011.)