Board of Directors Resumes :

• Pierre R. Gauthier - Director and Chairman of the Board.
  Mr. Gauthier holds a Bachelor Degree in Economics (B.A.) obtained in 1967 from the Université de Montréal and a Bachelor Degree in Commerce (B.Com. obtained in 1969 from Ottawa University. He also holds a Master Degree in Business and Administration (M.B.A.) obtained in 1976 from Concordia University. Mr. Gauthier has over 35 years of experience in the financial field. From 1970 to 1986, he worked in the investment banking business where he was involved in corporate finance, institution sales (as manager) and research (as director). He has worked for several brokerage firms, namely Dominion Securities, Burns Fry and Geoffrion Leclerc. He was Vice-President and Director at A.E. Ames from 1976 to 1981 and Vice-President and Director at Bell Gouinlock from 1981 to 1986. From 1986 to the present, he has occupied various positions in numerous resource companies. Since March 2000, he is the President of Seed Capital Inc., a venture capital firm.
   
  

• André Thibault - Director.
  Mr. André Thibault obtained a Bachelor in Commerce in 1967 from the Hautes Études Commerciales of the University of Montreal and became a chartered accountant in 1968. In 1970, he founded the firm of chartered accountants, Thibault Marchand, that merged with Peat Marwick (now KPMG) in 1986. In 1991, he joined the firm Price Waterhouse that later became PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, as a partner. Mr. Thibault was responsible for major clients, public and private companies, including in the mining industry. He is currently retired, having retired from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in 2004.
  
  

• Barry Coughlan - Director.
  Mr. Coughlan obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia in 1975. Mr. Coughlan is a self-employed Vancouver based businessman and financier, who over the past 25 years has been involved in the financing of publicly-traded companies. His principal occupation since is President and Director of TBC Ventures Ltd., a private investment company, which provides management, technical and financial services to a number of publicly-trades companies. Mr. Coughlan's focus has been the identification, negotiation and securing of viable resource projects worldwide, while concurrently developing long-term relationships within domestic and international investment communities. Mr. Coughlan is an officer and or a director of the various listed companies in the mining sector.
  
  

• Richard Groome - Director.
  Mr. Groome has a Bachelor Degree in Economics (B.A.) obtained in 1981 from McGill University. He has been in the financial industry for more than 20 years. He is Managing Partner of Notre-Dame Capital Inc., a financial advisory firm based in Montréal, Québec. His expertise is in the financing of small and mid-size emerging growth companies. Prior to starting this business in September 2005, he was Senior Vice-President of Strategic Capital Inc. from January 2003 through September 2005 and Senior Vice-President of Institutional Equity Sales from August 2001 to January 2003 at Desjardins Securities, a Québec-based firm.

Management Team Resumes:

•   Robert Casaceli - President and CEO.

  Mr Casaceli holds a Master in Geology (1981) from Oregon State University and a B.A. in Geology (1977) from the University of Colorado. His career in the mining industry spans 36 years and has involved every facet of mineral exploration for precious metals, base metals, and uranium. In the course of this period, he has also been President and CEO of a TSX resource company for over 12 years and has been involved in the design, funding, and implementation of numerous reconnaissance and advanced-stage exploration projects, and prospect/mine evaluations in some 50 countries.He has a strong background in the application of geologic mapping, drill logging, and structural geology, as well as in various geophysical, geochemical, and remote sensing methods used in the exploration for mineral deposits. Mr. Casaceli was a founding partner of the consulting firm Annapurna Exploration in 1985. He has extensive experience in negotiating mining deals, structuring legal agreements, and establishing companies in several countries. He speaks fluent Spanish and French, and has communication skills in several other languages.  Mr Casaceli has been involved in the discovery or delineation of several mineral deposits in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, and Asia. He was previously President and Chief Operating Officer of L.A. Nevada (Subsidiary of Euro-Nevada Mining Corporation) for two years, whose primary function was the identification and acquisition of royalty interests from mining properties located throughout Latin America and elsewhere in the world. Mr Casaceli has also published numerous technical and scientific papers
  

• Vatché Tchakmakian - Chief Financial Officer.
  Mr. Tchakmakian is a chartered accountant specialized in the field of public companies and securities regulations in Canada. He has served as Vice President Finance and Secretary for Beaufield Resources Inc., a TSXV listed mining exploration company, since January 2005. In addition, Mr. Tchakmakian was the Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of Dacha Capital Inc. a TSXV listed venture capital company, from August 2002 until August 2009 and Secretary, Treasurer of Gold Hawk Resources Inc., a TSXV listed mining company, from June 1997 until January 2007, at which time that company ceased to be a mining exploration company and became a producing company. He also served as Chief Financial Officer of Franc-Or Resources Corporation, a Toronto Stock Exchange listed mining exploration company, from December 1999 to October 2008. From 1988 to 1993, he managed audit assignments at one of the predecessors of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, a national accounting firm, for a number of large private and public companies. Mr. Tchakmakian received his B.S. in Public Accounting from École des Hautes Études Commerciales, Université de Montréal in 1988.
   
  

• Luce Saint Pierre - Corporate Secretary.
  Ms. Saint Pierre is a member of the Quebec Order of Chartered Accountants and of the Quebec Bar Association. Ms. Saint Pierre has worked for 15 years, from 1972 to 1987, for a national accounting firm where she served as partner for seven years and was responsible for the auditing of large companies in various sectors of the economy. She completed her law degree from 1989 to 1992 and was admitted to the bar in 1994. Ms. Saint Pierre is a self employed lawyer since June 2002.