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Board of Directors

Robert J. Quinn, Chairman , , , Partner, Quinn & Brooks LLP | Houston, Texas

Mr. Quinn was first appointed to the board of directors of the Company in June 2006. A founding partner of the Houston mining transactional law firm Quinn & Brooks LLP, Mr. Quinn has over 30 years of legal and management experience, including as Vice President and General Counsel for Battle Mountain Gold Company. He has extensive experience in M&A transactions, corporate governance, public disclosure, governmental affairs, environmental law and land management. Mr. Quinn has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Denver, a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Denver College of Law and has completed two years of graduate work in mineral economics at the Colorado School of Mines.

André J. Douchane , , , President & CEO, Mahdia Gold Corporation | Toronto, Ontario

Mr. Douchane is a seasoned mining executive with over 40 years of experience in the mining industry with a solid track record of successfully bringing development projects into production. He was appointed to the Company’s Board of Directors in April 2003, and served as the President and CEO until January 2006. Mr. Douchane is currently the Chief Executive Officer of THEMAC Resources Group Ltd., a Vancouver-based resource company focused on exploring and developing natural resource properties. Previously, he held senior positions with several precious and base metal international mining companies including President and CEO of Starfield Resources Inc., President and COO of Chief Consolidated Mining Co., and Vice President, Operations of Franco and Euro-Nevada (Newmont Mining Corporation). He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mining Engineering from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and is a graduate of the Executive Business Program at the Kellogg School of Business in Chicago.

Steven R. Berlin , , , Retired Financial Executive | Tulsa, Oklahoma

Mr. Berlin was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company in February 2001, and is also a director of Orchids Paper Products, an AMEX listed company. At the end of 2005, Mr. Berlin retired from his position as Vice-President of KFOC where he worked part-time for two years following four years of full-time work as Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining KFOC, Mr. Berlin taught at the University of Tulsa for three years where he also served a year as acting associate Dean of the College of Business and acting Director of the School of Accounting. Before joining the University of Tulsa, Mr. Berlin spent 25 years with Citgo Petroleum Corporation, where he retired as Senior VP Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Berlin has a bachelor’s degree from Duquesne University, an MBA from the University of Wisconsin Madison and has completed the Executive Management program at Stanford University.

C. David A. Comba , , , Retired Mining Executive | Burlington, Ontario

Mr. Comba was first appointed to the board of directors of the Company in March 2006. He has over four decades of experience as an exploration advocate and senior mining executive. As Chief Exploration Geologist of Falconbridge Limited in Sudbury, Ontario, he led the team that discovered the high-grade footwall deposit that allowed the Thayer Lindsley mine to go into production. Prior to its takeover by Kinross Gold Corporation, Mr. Comba was Vice-President, Exploration of Falconbridge Gold Corporation. Following the takeover, he became President and Chief Executive Officer of Pentland Firth Venture Ltd., a Kinross-controlled junior gold exploration company listed on the TSX. Pentland’s work added the first couple of million ounce resource to the Hammond Reef property Atikokan, ON. Mr. Comba was Director of Issues Management with the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada from 1998 to 2005, during which time he led the successful lobby effort for the re-introduction of enhanced or “super” flow-through shares. Mr. Comba has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in geology from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.

Greg J. Van Staveren, CA, CPA , , , Strategic Financial Consultant | Toronto, Ontario

Mr. Van Staveren was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company in February 2003. Since September 2001, Mr. Van Staveren has been the President of Strategic Financial Services, a private company providing business advisory services. During this period he has sat on the board of a number of publicly traded companies. Mr. Van Staveren is a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Public Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Math (Honours) degree from the University of Waterloo. From February 1998 until September 2001, Mr. Van Staveren was the Chief Financial Officer of MartinRea International Inc (MRE-TSX), and prior to that he was partner in the mining group of KPMG, which he joined in 1980, and where he provided accounting, and advisory services to his clients.

William J. Weymark, P.Eng. , , , President, Weymark Engineering Ltd. | Vancouver, British Columbia

Appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company in January 2007, Mr. Weymark is President of Weymark Engineering Ltd., a Company providing consulting services to businesses in the private equity, construction and resource sector. He is also a director of the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation Board, and several private companies. Mr. Weymark is also a Member of the Industry Advisory Committee for the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering at the University of British Columbia. Until June 2007, Mr. Weymark was President and CEO of Vancouver Wharves/BCR Marine, a transportation firm located on the west coast of British Columbia. Prior to joining Vancouver Wharves in 1991, Mr. Weymark spent 14 years in the mining industry throughout western Canada working on the start-up and operation of several mines. Mr. Weymark is a Professional Engineer and holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Mining and Mineral Process Engineering from the University of British Columbia and is a graduate of the Institute of Corporate Directors’, Directors Education Program.
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