Mr. Dattels has founded and/or financed a number of mining ventures with his most recent being UraMin Inc. which was sold in July 2007 for $2.5 billion to Areva, the French government-owned fully integrated uranium company. Mr. Dattels was an executive at Barrick Gold Corporation during its formative years when it grew from a capital base of $10 million to a market capitalisation of $2 billion when he left in early 1987. During his employment with Barrick, he was a Director and Executive Vice President of Corporate Finance. In the past decade, he has completed several financings either directly or through his merchant bank, Regent Mercantile Bancorp Inc., in the natural resources sector. This has included exploration, development or production projects in minerals, base metals and precious metals, with the main areas of focus being Africa and Asia.

Mr. Dattels was the Chairman and founder of Caledon Resources PLC, an AIM-listed Australian coal producer and Chinese exploration company, and was the co-founder and Managing Director of AIM-listed Oriel Resources PLC, a developer of nickel and chrome assets in Kazakhstan. Most recently, Mr. Dattels founded a new venture called CCEC Ltd. which is acquiring thermal coal projects in China. CCEC Ltd. recently merged with Regent Pacific Group Limited, a public company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Mr. Herbert was Finance Director of UraMin Inc from July 2005 until its sale to Areva in 2007 for US$2.5 billion. He was previously Finance Director of Galahad Gold plc, International Molybdenum plc, Kalahari Diamond Resources plc and HPD Exploration plc. He was also Chief Financial Officer of Argentinian gold explorer Brancote Holdings plc until its acquisition by Meridian Gold Inc and was Group Financial Controller of Antofagasta plc when the Los Pelambres and El Tesoro copper mines were brought to production. Before joining the mining sector he worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers and he is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Mr. Ingram is a geologist with extensive experience in managing major mineral exploration programmes for several publicly listed companies. He has designed and implemented innovative techniques for exploration in remote areas, and has managed projects in countries throughout Australia and East Asia. Mr. Ingram has been involved in mineral exploration and development for over thirty years. He was formerly Managing Director of Menzies Gold Ltd and Exploration Director of Caledon Resources PLC. Mr. Ingram has a bachelor of applied science (geology) degree from Queensland University of Technology and is a member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Mining Industry Consultants Association.

Mr. Bainbridge is an exploration geologist and has spent the past 25 years working in the gold, base metals and energy industries throughout the Asia-Pacific region. For the past two years, Mr. Bainbridge has held the position of president of Asia Intercept Mining Group leading a search for coal and uranium in Mongolia and China. Prior thereto, Mr. Bainbridge was an exploration manager with Highlands Pacific Limited in Papua New Guinea, where he managed a team of geologists in a country wide exploration search for gold, copper and nickel. During this time, his team discovered, drilled and brought into production the high grade Kainantu Au-Te gold mine. Before becoming an exploration manager, Mr. Bainbridge was chief geologist at Highlands Pacific Limited for five years.

Prior to working at Highlands Pacific, Mr. Bainbridge operated a geological consultancy group for various companies in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, The Solomon Islands, Fiji, Thailand, China and Mongolia.Mr. Bainbridge has a bachelor of science degree (Honours) from the University of Queensland andis a ‘‘Qualified Person’’ as defined by NI 43-101.

Mr. Elliott is a co-founder of F3 Capital Management, LLC, an independent alternative asset management firm specialising in early stage financings in the natural resources field. Prior thereto, Mr. Elliott was president and co-founder of Croesus Capital Management, a specialist emerging markets hedge fund manager which grew over several years to about $800 million under management. He was a manager of proprietary trading at HSBC New York from 1992 to 1993 and worked for EBF & Associates as a portfolio manager from 1990 to 1992. He has also worked for Merrill Lynch International in New York focusing on fixed income securities and Cargill in London, Geneva and Minneapolis trading fixed income, foreign exchange and derivatives. Mr. Elliott is a director of Aurelian Oil & Gas an AIM listed E&P company and Direct Petroleum Exploration Inc, a private Denver based E&P company.

Mr. Hiremath has extensive experience of financial markets having spent 25 years in the industry, combined with formal qualification as a Chartered Accountant (England & Wales), and holds a Securities Institute (UK) Certificate in Investment Management.  Mr. Hiremath began his working career as an investment analyst with Cargill Inc. (the commodity company), setting up their Financial Markets division in the UK in 1980.  He moved into the banking sector in 1989 when he joined Continental Bank as the Chief Dealer of their treasury operations. In 1990, Mr. Hiremath joined Goldman Sachs as a Director of the Foreign Exchange and Fixed Income trading group in London to develop their proprietary trading business.  In 1995 Mr. Hiremath led a leveraged management buy-out of a UK manufacturing company, Strayfield Ltd, as CEO but  returned to the financial markets the following year with Commerzbank in Frankfurt as a Director of the treasury division to lead and set-up their global foreign exchange and fixed income proprietary trading operation.  In 1999 Mr. Hiremath returned to the UK as a Director of Barclays Capital in their proprietary trading group.  Towards the end of 2001 Mr. Hiremath set up his own funds management business, Castellan Capital where he is a principal and its chief investment advisor in London.

Mr. van Hoeken is an engineer from The Netherlands with over a decade of experience in the African oil and gas industry. Mr. van Hoeken was with PGS from 1997 to 2003 and based in Lagos, Nigeria for over five years, initially as Area Manager West Africa, then Managing Director Nigeria and took over as Business Manager of the Gulf of Guinea when he relocated to London. Mr. van Hoeken has a well balanced knowledge in both exploration and production, having also worked with PGS Production which specializes in leased FPSOs and as an executive in Wellstream International, a company manufacturing and supplying offshore and onshore production equipment. Mr. van Hoeken has a B.Sc. in both Aerospace Engineering and Ocean Engineering obtained with Honors at the Florida Institute of Technology.

Mr. Sun, a Chinese Canadian citizen, has extensive experience in international trade and natural resource investment.  He brings a wealth of experience in negotiating business agreements between Chinese government agencies, overseas companies and business groups in China.  Mr. Sun has more than 25 years of experience in the management of various self-owned and state-owned companies in a number of sectors such as mining, technology, futures and the environment.  He founded and was chairman of Asia Intercept Mining Group, Zhong Jun Jia Hua Investment Group and China Gold Investment Co. Ltd.  Mr. Sun was founder and a director of Guangdong Union Futures Exchange and he was a general manager of Shenzhen Hui Guang Industry Development Co. Ltd in the early 1990s.  Mr. Sun holds a bachelor degree in communication and a master degree in Management Business Administration.