Ken has been a qualified accountant since 1988 and in his own Public Accounting Practice in Kalgoorlie-Boulder since 1991, and more recently in his Perth Office. He has been involved in mining for over 20 years both directly and via his family's prospecting interests. Ken is currently a non executive director and company secretary for another publicly listed company. Ken is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia. Ken brings to the board extensive commercial experience in mining matters as well as a passion for sustainable and balanced environmental issues and practical carbon reductions for the mining industry.

Nick Archibald is a geologist with more than 30 years of minerals industry experience. He trained as a field-based structural geologist/metamorphic petrologist with a BSc Hons from James Cook University and a PhD from University of Western Australia. He then completed a Research Fellowship at Monash University working on Broken Hill. In the early/mid 1980s he worked for numerous companies around Australia as a consultant. He founded Fractal Graphics in 1991 and software development company Fractal Technologies in 1996. Fractal Graphics had a long research association with CSIRO which led to amongst other things the “Worms”, a multi-scale wavelet based technique for interpretation of potential field data. Fractal Graphics went on to win the Goldcorp Challenge in Canada in 2001. He is currently Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Geoinformatics Exploration Inc, the successor company to Fractal Graphics, which is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Nick was the recipient of the Gibb Maitland Medal from the Western Australian division of the Geological Society of Australia and is a Fellow of the AusIMM, the SEG and the AIG. He was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2006.

Dr. Mukesh Arora, M.Sc., M. Phil., Ph.D., joined the RAK Minerals & Metals Investments FZC, RAK, UAE, about Three years ago with the capacity of General Manager (R&D), is heading the Resource Development department. He is also discharging his duties as General Manager (R&D) as additional charges for other joint venture entities of the group. He has over twenty two years of experience both in academics as well as in industries of the mining sector. Before joining the present organization, he had served the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), a flag ship organization of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India, for about eight years. While working with NGRI he contributed significantly in the field of basic and applied aspects of the genesis of various metallic and non metallic minerals resources of economic importance. Considering his scientific contribution, degrees of M. Phil. (Coal Sedimentology), and Ph. D. (Sedimentary Geochemistry), were conferred to him in the year 1988 and 1991 respectively. His special contribution is in the field of gold and base metal mineralization. He has edited one book, and published about twenty scientific research papers in national and international journals. He is the member of various international scientific communities, including National Geographical Society. He has worked about eleven years with National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC), one of the top ten public sector companies of Govt. of India. Before leaving the NMDC in early 2005, he served the organization with various capacity and positions. He has about four years of experience of mine planning, mine operations and total quality control of completely mechanized iron ore mines with the annual capacity of seven million tonnes of iron ore productions in Central India. His expertise in Geo-statistics has been utilized for the reserve estimation and grade control practices in operational iron ore mines of India. He has also worked and gained experience by working over six years as operation in-charge of gold exploration projects in different parts of Africa and India. Apart from experience in gold exploration, he has headed the exploration and development projects for diamond, base metals, limestone, beach sand etc. As a mark of recognition of his services in mining sector, he has been registered as “Recognized Qualified Person (RQP)” by the Indian Bureau of Mines, Gov. of India. With the present organization, his responsibilities lie for the development of mineral resources inventory for the group, project development, mining operations, team development, and techno-commercial-financial management of projects of large spectrum of industrial minerals on turn key basis in various Far East, Middle East, & Central Asia, and African countries, including India. He has worked in over fifteen countries in three continents.

Steve Boda is a geologist with over 18 years of experience in mineral exploration, resource definition and project evaluation and development in Australia, Asia and Africa. He has held various technical and managerial roles including Geological Site Manager for the Lumwana Copper Project in Zambia and Senior Exploration Geologist at Mt Muro, Central Kalimantan Indonesia for Aurora Gold. Steve has worked for 5 years in China commencing as Senior Technical QA/QC Geologist at the Jinfeng Gold Project in Guizhou Province China for Sino Gold and then project acquisitions in China for his own company Crescent Minerals Ltd. Currently he is the Exploration and Resource Manager for Dragon Mountain Gold Ltd and is the Principal Geologist for Brighton Minerals Ltd in Cambodia.

Sue Border is a geologist with over 30 years experience in the minerals industry. Sue specialises in project management and reserve estimation. Her broad experience included periods as a mine geologist, consultant, academic, and exploration manager before starting Geos Mining. Together with her husband, Sue has built Geos Mining into a team of 15 varied professionals consulting in a wide range of minerals and coal related fields. Success has resulted from a continuing focus on efficiently fulfilling clients’ needs. Sue has experience in a wide variety of industrial minerals and metals. She has carried out research in geostatistics and mine quality control. She is a fellow of AusIMM (Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy) and AIG (Australian Institute of Geoscientists), and a member of MICA (Mineral Industry Consultants Association).

Warick Brown graduated with BSc (Hons) and MSc degrees in geology from La Trobe University and subsequently worked for W.M.C. Ltd for approximately four years as a geologist in exploration and mining at Olympic Dam, Kambalda and Bendigo. After returning to La Trobe University to complete a Diploma in Computer Science, he worked for a year as a programmer at Telstra and as a programmer and systems analyst at Volkswagen, Germany for five years. Since completing a PhD on a neural network method for mineral prospectivity mapping at the University of Western Australia, Warick has been a postdoctoral researcher at Murdoch University, where he worked on applications of hybrid fuzzy-neural networks and self-organizing maps to mineral exploration. He is currently a lecturer and coordinator of the Masters in Ore Deposit Geology program at the Centre for Exploration Targeting at the University of Western Australia. His research interests include the application of Geographic Information Systems and spatial data analysis to mineral prospectivity mapping and exploration targeting.

Anthony (Tony) Burgess (MSc Geology) is Chief Geologist and a Director of Trinity Mineral Exploration (TME), a PNG based company, which is actively exploring for gold and platinum along the north west coast of PNG since November 2004. Anthony Burgess has a B.Sc. and a MSc. in Geology from Canterbury University. The title of his MSc. thesis was: “Gold Mineralisation at the Golden Blocks Goldfield” and involved a study of the structural, stratigraphy and lithological controls on gold mineralisation within a suite of sedimentary rocks in NW Nelson. Anthony’s career in geology spans 35 years as a geologist working in the clay, sand, aggregate, coal and gold mining industries. He has specialized in all aspects of mine site geology at major coal and gold mines including exploration, evaluation and grade control. Anthony worked as Senior Resource/Technical Geologist for Porgera Gold Mines, PNG, for 11 years and supervised the delineation of 9 moz of additional gold reserves. He is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and is qualified as a competent person to report and compute Resource/reserves as required under NI 41 – 101 of the Canadian Stock Exchange and similar US Stock Exchange Codes.

Tom Cudahy is a geologist and leader of CSIRO’s Minerals and Environmental Sensing Group based at the Australian Resources Research Centre in Perth, Western Australia. He has an undergraduate degree in structural geology from Macquarie University and a PhD from Curtin University with a thesis based on silicate and surface scattering mapping using an airborne multi-line CO2 laser. He has led numerous national and international collaborative research projects and been a member of various satellite science teams including ASTER and Hyperion. He has also worked with airborne SEBASS, HyMap, ARGUS and Geoscan Mk II airborne image data and is currently focused on developing remote hyperspectral capabilities for delivering accurate mineral and environmental composition maps of Australia for the resources industry in collaboration with the government mapping agencies of Australia.

Alex Davidson is EVP, Exploration and Corporate Development with responsibility for Barrick Gold’s international exploration programs and corporate development activities. Prior to April 2005, he was responsible for Barrick’s exploration strategy and programs as EVP Exploration. Mr. Davidson joined Barrick in October 1993 and under his leadership, Barrick’s exploration efforts grew outside of North America and into Latin America and beyond. Prior to joining Barrick, Mr. Davidson was Vice President, Exploration for Metall Mining Corporation. Mr. Davidson has over 25 years' experience in designing, implementing and managing gold and base metal exploration and acquisition programs throughout the world. In April 2005, Mr. Davidson was presented the 2005 A.O. Dufresne Award by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum to recognize exceptional achievement and distinguished contributions to mining exploration in Canada. In 2003, Mr. Davidson was named the Prospector of the Year by the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada in recognition for his team’s discovery of the Lagunas Norte Project in the Alto Chicama District, Peru. He received his B.Sc. and his M.Sc. in Economic Geology from McGill University.

Eric graduated in 1982 with a degree in Applied Geology from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. After work as an exploration geologist in Ireland and Turkey with NL Petroleum Services and as a field geochemist in Malawi with the British Civil Uranium Procurement Organisation, he joined the Geological Survey of PNG in 1984 as a regional geological mapper. Following five years of mapping in the Sepik River headwaters and on Bougainville Island, he joined Rio Tinto as project geologist responsible for copper and gold exploration in the PNG highlands based out of Sydney. In 1993 he was transferred to Vancouver as regional exploration manager for Western Canada and then in 2000 to London as the personal assistant to the head of Exploration. In January of 2002, he moved to Perth to assume the role of director of Exploration for Australasia and in January of 2007 was appointed head of Exploration for Rio Tinto based in London.

With over 30 years experience, Stephen Fraser leads a team that specializes in the integrated analysis of geoscience data for mining and exploration purposes. During his undergraduate years, Stephen gained experience as a mine geologist in both soft, and hard rock mining operations (for Thiess Bros at their South Blackwater coal mine, and for Zinc Corporation at Broken Hill). Stephen graduated from the University of Queensland as a structural geologist, then worked as an explorationist in a variety of locations including, Saudi Arabia (Riofinex), Western Australia (CRAE), Eastern Australia and Indonesia (CSR). At CSIRO he has extended his capabilities in the areas of remote sensing and spectral analysis (satellite, aircraft, HyLogger, PIMA & Face Mapper studies), geochemistry, airborne and down hole geophysics, and in the display, interpretation and storage of spatially-located geoscientific data. His interests into the use of computational methods for data analysis has led to the development of specialist software for spatial data mining based on an approach known as self-organizing maps.

Daniel's range of deposit types studied covers a very broad spectrum and includes: gold, copper, iron, tin, nickel (laterite and sulphides), lead-silver-zinc, uranium, mineral sands, phosphate, coal, diamonds and bauxite. His particular fields of expertise include resource estimation, resource classification (JORC), recoverable resource evaluation (non-linear geostatistics, MIK, uniform conditioning), conditionals simulation of orebodies, application of conditional simulation to grade control and risk analysis, sampling theory, design, implementation and audit of grade control, and resource estimation systems, mining simulation, open pit optimisation and training of professionals in statistics, geostatistics, sampling and grade control.

MIRZA Talib Hasan is presently Heading the National Geological Survey of Pakistan. The Department is broadly responsible for geological mapping and mineral exploration of the country besides geotectonic and groundwater studies. He has a vast experience of more than twenty five years of field work in geological mapping and mineral exploration in and outside the country. After obtaining his graduate degree in Geology from Peshawar University-Pakistan he did his M.S. in Coal Geology and utilization from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA and also conducted research on Coal Petrography and Environment of deposits in the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1986-88. During his professional career he visited USA and Australia as Member of Phosphorite Working Group of CENTO in 1984 and 1974 and contributed papers on Phosphorite of Pakistan in the book on World Phosphorite published by Cambridge University Press in 1986. He has written many publications and reports particularly in his field of specialization on coal and phosphorite deposits of Pakistan. He represented Pakistan in many international conference/ workshop on geology and seismo-tectonic in USA, Australia, Japan, Thailand and Iran besides visiting many other countries. He is also Member of Board of Directors of other national organizations of Mineral and Geology i.e. (1) Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation. (2) Pakistan Saindak Metals Ltd. (3) Pakistan Oceanography Institute.

Michael Hawkins is currently President, CEO and Director of East Asia Minerals Corporation, (EAS) a company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Michael has a wealth of experience in the resources sector, and has spent the last 27 years employed, predominantly for major mining companies, in Australia, North America, Central America, South America, the Pacific region and throughout Asia.

Rico Hizon, the 2006 TOYM (The Outstanding Young Men) Awardee for International Journalism and Community Service, is the main anchor of the daily business and finance programme Asia Business Report and anchors one edition of World Business Report live from Singapore every weekday mornings. Produced in Singapore, Asia Business Report offers viewers the latest economic and market news from the Asia-Pacific region, with in-depth analysis of the latest trends from the movers and shakers in the business world. Rico also reports on the latest business and financial issues impacting the region. His latest reports have taken him to Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines. Rico joined BBC World in 2002 after eight years with the financial and business news network CNBC Asia. He was based in Hong Kong and Singapore, where he was the main anchor of the morning edition of CNBC Today, Squawk Box, Market Watch and Power Lunch. Before working at CNBC Asia, Rico was an anchor and business reporter at the Manila-based GMA-7 network, responsible for covering capital markets, banking and finance, real estate, investment and corporate developments. He anchored the daily business programme, Business Today, GMA News Live and Stock Market Live from the trading floor of the Philippine Stock Exchange. Rico has close to 20 years of regional journalism experience. Before entering the broadcast industry, he was a lecturer in one of the country's top schools De La Salle University, where he also finished a degree in Broadcast Journalism.

Mitch Hooke has been Chief Executive of the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) since April 2002. The MCA is one of the nation’s most significant industry bodies and represents minerals exploration, production and processing companies nationally and internationally which produce around 90 percent of Australian’s annual mineral output and exports. The companies account for nearly 40 per cent of Australian goods exports and one-tenth of annual national output. In this role he recently chaired the first APEC Mining Industry Forum held in conjunction with the Ministers Responsible for Mining meeting in Perth. This gave the minerals industry an unprecedented opportunity to make recommendations to APEC ministers on issues critical to further expanding the resources sector. He has reinvigorated and restructured the MCA, lifting its profile and engaging in debate about important issues facing the industry and Australia including climate change, energy security, skills and labour shortages, trade, constraints to growth and the need for continued economic reform. Mr Hooke’s current appointment is the latest in a range of industry leadership roles he has held over the past two decades. Before joining the MCA, Mr Hooke served as inaugural Chief Executive of the Australian Food and Grocery Council from 1995 to 2002. Earlier, he was Executive Director of the Grains Council of Australia. Mr Hooke began his career as an Agricultural Adviser on Queensland’s Darling Downs where he pioneered zero-tillage ecological farming systems.

A graduate in geology from Southampton University and a post graduate MSc degree in Applied Geophysics from the University of Birmingham, UK, he has over 30 years experience as a government geophysicist in Botswana (1971-1985) and Namibia (1986 onwards). He has been involved in many international projects and since 1994 has been largely responsible for the planning and supervision of the Namibia Airborne Geophysics Programme. To date more than 3 million line-Kms of airborne magnetic and radiometric data have been acquired at a cost of US$ 20m. which are now available to industry at a small fraction of real cost. In addition government funded airborne electromagnetic, gravity and hyperspectral surveys have been conducted to resolve specific exploration problems and assist target delineation.

Phil commenced his career with nine years' experience of Archaean gold deposits, gaining experience in both open pit and underground mine geology and grade control, as well as in exploration and resource development. Subsequently, he spent nine years as a resource geologist with a major Australian mining company before joining SRK in 2004. He specialises in mine geology, orebody interpretation and wireframing, resource estimation using linear and non-linear geostatistics, the integration of geological and grade information, technical audits of resource estimates and grade control systems and reconciliation.

Dr. Ling Wen has served as an executive director and the President of our Company since August 2006. Dr. Ling has served as the executive director of the Company since November 2004. In addition, Dr. Ling is also the Chairman of Shenhua Finance Company Limited. Dr. Ling had previously served as the executive vice president and chief financial officer of the Company. Prior to joining our Company, Dr. Ling served as a Vice General Manager of Shenhua Group. Prior to joining Shenhua Group in December 2001, Dr. Ling served as Deputy General Manager of the International Business Department of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Deputy General Manager of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Limited and Chairman of UB China Business Management Company Limited. Dr. Ling has in-depth and extensive experience in financial institution and enterprise management. Holding a professorship at the school of management of the Harbin Institute of Technology, he is a member of the Institute of Financial Accountants of the United Kingdom and is a fellow-professional accountant of the National Institute of Accountants of Australia. Dr. Ling graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University with a bachelor’s degree in science in 1984, received a master’s degree in system engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1987 and received a Ph.D. degree in management engineering in 1991. From 1992 to 1994, Dr. Ling conducted post-doctoral research in macroeconomics in the Department of Automation of Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Holding a Philosophy of Dortor in Geology (Ph.D), Ngo Van Minh has 15 years of experience as Director of geological Unit, and 5 years of experience working as chief geologist of geological Division. He was part of the team that discovered a new magnesite deposit in Central of Viet Nam (2000). This is largest magnesit deposit in Viet Nam.

Jon Steen Petersen, Senior Vice President, INTEX Resources ASA, Mr. Petersen has more than 30 years of experience in mineral resources as an Associate Professor of Economic Geology and Geochemistry at the University of Aarhus and an active consultant to the mining industry. Mr. Petersen is a fellow of the Geological Society of London, the Society of Economic Geologists, the Association of Applied Geochemists and the PDAC. Mr. Petersen was the VP Exploration at Mindex ASA and Crew Gold Corporation prior to his engagement with INTEX Resources and has been instrumental for resource discoveries and acquisitions of these companies.

Peter is a geologist with nearly 40 years experience in mine geology, mineral resource and ore reserve estimation, feasibility studies, project evaluation and mineral exploration. Prior to joining AMC in April 2003, Peter was an independent consultant with ten years experience in his own business, first established in 1989. Peter’s consulting included advising the audit committee of an Australian Gold Mining Company on Mineral Resource reporting and numerous audits and due diligence studies. He was a General Manager in MIM Exploration with responsibility for technical services and also for Mineral Resource and Ore Reserves reporting for the MIM Holdings group of companies from 1992 to 1996. Peter was formerly Chief Geologist at Mount Isa Mines Ltd, having worked at Mount Isa for 13 years. He was also a director of a junior exploration and mineral treatment technology company. Peter has participated in management of exploration, project evaluation and acquisition and review of mining projects in Australia, PNG, Argentina, Chile and the Republic of Ireland. He has undertaken consulting assignments and visits to operating mines, exploration sites and financial institutions in the USA, Canada, Peru, Fiji, Egypt, New Zealand, Indonesia, Tanzania, Botswana, Mongolia, Thailand, South Africa, Hong Kong, England and Republic of Korea and participated in Australian Trade missions to Chile and Peru. Peter is a Fellow of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) and a Chartered Professional (Geology). He is the current Chairman of the Joint Ore Reserves Committee and was Secretary from late 1999 to 2005. He is also a member of Committee for Mineral Reserves International Reporting Standards (CRIRSCO). He was a member of the Steering Committee and a contributor for Monograph 23 “Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves Estimation - The AusIMM Guide to Good Practice” and has authored or co-authored a number of papers on Mineral Resource and Ore Reserve estimation, classification, exploration research and practice. He is the past Chair of The AusIMM’s Geoscience Taskforce and a past Councillor, branch chairman and secretary.

Ian Tyler completed his BSc at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1978 followed by a PhD in metamorphic petrology at the University of Aston in Birmingham completed in 1981. He then moved to Australia to join the Geological Survey of Western Australia as a regional mapping geologist. During his 26 year career with GSWA he has mapped extensively throughout Western Australia, producing some 26 geological series maps in the Archean and Proterozoic of the Hamersley Basin and the Capricorn Orogen, and in the Proterozoic of the remote Kimberley region in the state’s far north. He has developed a strong research interest in the tectonic evolution of Proterozoic Australia. He was Chief Geoscientist from 1999 until 2007. In his current position he promotes the mineral prospectivity of the vast under-explored Proterozoic greenfields areas in central and northern Western Australia He is well placed to discuss GSWA’s approach to geological mapping and its presentation to explorers. During his time as Chief Geoscientist he was closely involved in GSWA’s ongoing transition from its traditional role carrying out systematic mapping of geological series 100K and 250K map sheet areas, to a more flexible province or tectonic unit based approach. The aim is to provide geological products as seamless digital map layers and images in a format that explorers can readily include into their own projects, making use of field data, map unit descriptions, geochronology and geochemistry held in state-wide databases. Precompetitive regional geophysical datasets and images (magnetics, gravity, radiometrics), satellite imagery and orthophotography are used in map compilation, particularly to interpret bedrock geology under regolith and thin sedimentary basin cover.

Watanabe is Managing Editor of Resource Geology as well as a member of editorial boards of Economic Geology, and Mineral Deposits. He contributed to several MMAJ exploration projects in Japan, and also served as a scientific advisory board member of this Agency. He has been seconded as a advisory board member and/or technical expert to several Japan International Cooperation Agency projects related to evaluation of mineral potential. These have included technology-transfer projects in Honduras (1991-1994), Mongolia (1997-1999), Vietnam (2000), Morocco (2000-2001), Mauritania (2002-2006), Argentina (2003), Laos (2006-2008) and Zambia (2007-2008). He was awarded as the 2004 Regional Vice President Lecturer of the Society of Economic Geologists. He served as the Regional Vice President for Asia from 2004 to 2007 and is serving as a councilor for the society.

Dr. Khin Zaw, Associate Professor, CODES ARC Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia and leader of ‘Ore Deposits of SE Asia” Project. Khin Zaw is an Associate Professor, CODES ARC Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia and leader of ‘Ore Deposits of SE Asia” Project. He received BSc from Yangon University in 1968, FGA Diploma (Fellowships of Gemmological Association of Great Britain) in 1969, MSc (Economic Geology) from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada in 1976 and PhD from University of Tasmania in 1990. He is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He has over 30 years experience working on genetic aspects of mineral deposits in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China and SE Asia, and has published considerable number of papers relating to ore genesis and mineral exploration in Australasian region. He recently published a special volume of Ore Geology Reviews journal on “Mineral Deposits of South China” with fellow guest editors Steve Peters, Nigel Cook and Zenqian Hou.