Mr. Pascall graduated from Sussex University in England with an honours degree in Control Engineering, and then completed an MBA at the University of Capetown. He has worked in general management positions in the mining industry since 1977 in South Africa with RTZ and E.L. Bateman and since 1981, in Australia. He was the Project Manager of the Argyle Diamond Project and then, as Executive Chairman and part owner of Nedpac Engineering between 1982 and 1990. Mr. Pascall was involved in a wide variety of mineral projects in Australia, New Zealand. S.E. Asia, Chile, the United States, and Zimbabwe. Since then he has been a consultant in the mining industry including a two-year period with Hamersley Iron. He has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company since November 1996.

Mr. Newall graduated from the Royal School of Mines, University of London, England in 1971 with an honours degree in Mining Geology, and was awarded an MBA from the Scottish Business School at Strathclyde University. He has worked in mining and exploration throughout his career, having held senior management positions with Amax Exploration Inc. and the Robertson Group plc. Mr. Newall has been a director of a number of public companies in the United Kingdom and Canada.

Mr. Rowley graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1975.After starting his career as an accountant working in both Australia and England he worked as executive assistant to the Board of Directors of a large Australian public company from 1980 to 1984. He then established his own resource consulting and investment company and was involved as a shareholder, Director and Chairman of a number of Australian public resource companies before co-founding First Quantum Minerals Ltd in 1996. Mr. Rowley served as First Quantum's CFO and as a Director until January 2007, when he assumed the role of Executive Director, Business Development. He is also non-executive Chairman of Forsys Metals Corp, a leading company in the uranium sector and Lithium One Inc, an emerging Canadian lithium company. Mr Rowley is married with three children and lives in Perth, Western Australia.

Rupert Pennant-Rea has had a varied career as economist, journalist, central banker and businessman. He was born and brought up in Zimbabwe, and has degrees in economics from Trinity College, Dublin and the University of Manchester. He has been Editor of The Economist and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. Mr. Pennant-Rea is chairman of Henderson Group plc and is non-executive director on the boards of PGI plc, Acuity VCT plc, Acuity VCT 2 plc, Go-Ahead Group plc, Gold Fields Limited.

Mr. St. George held senior positions within the investment banking industry in the United Kingdom and Australia for over 25 years. He was Managing Director and Chief Executive/Co-Chief Executive Officer of Salomon Smith Barney, Australia and its predecessor, Natwest Markets Australia, from January 1995 to mid-2001. Mr. St. George worked in London from 1974 to 1994. Immediately before moving to Australia, he was the Managing Director Corporate Finance Natwest Markets in London, having previously been a Director of Hill Samuel & Co. Limited, a London headquartered merchant and investment bank. He is currently a non-executive director of Boart Longyear Limited, an international drilling products and services business and has served on a number of public Company Boards in Australia. Mr. St. George qualified as a Chartered Accountant in South Africa and holds an MBA from the University of Cape Town.

Mr. Adams obtained his Bachelor of Science Degree from Southampton University and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in the United Kingdom in 1981. He worked for the Anglo American group of companies for 12 years up to 1999, his final position being Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of AngloGold North America based in Denver, Colorado. Mr. Adams worked for Aber Diamond Corporation as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 1999 to 2003. Currently he serves as an independent non-executive director of Uranium One Inc.

Mr. Martineau graduated from the University of Oxford in England with a MA and d.Phil in geology. He has worked worldwide in mineral exploration and mine development since 1970, specializing in Africa since 1986. After seven years in North America with Kennecott Copper Corporation he moved to the United Kingdom becoming General Manager Global Exploration for BP Minerals. After a period as Director Minerals for Seltrust Mining (Australia) and CEO of Cluff Minerals Exploration in 1989, he founded and acted as CEO for Canadian listed SAMAX Gold Inc, Carpathian Gold and latterly AXMIN Inc. Currently he serves as a non-executive director of several UK and Canadian natural resources companies.

Mr. Brunner served as President and CEO of Boart Longyear Company (USA), a leading provider of drilling services, tools and equipment for the natural resource industry, the construction and quarrying industries and industrial markets worldwide, from 2004 to 2008. During his 21-year career with Boart Longyear, Mr. Brunner held several senior positions including Managing Director - Boart Longyear Limited (South Africa); Regional Director - Boart Longyear Limitada (Chile/Peru); and, President - Boart Canada Ltd.

Mr. Brunner holds a MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and is a graduate from the Colorado School of Mines and the British Columbia Institute of Technology.