Mr. Alland has a distinguished career in the mining and finance sectors. Most recently, he was a founding shareholder and CEO of AIM-listed Copper Resources Corporation (CRC). CRC has three copper projects in the Congo, one of which is under construction and expected to commence production at the rate of 50,000 tonnes per annum in 2008. Prior thereto, Mr. Alland had a 23-year career at the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), its affiliate responsible for private sector project financing in developing countries. He has broad-based experience in finance and management, including exposure as manager, investor, merchant banker and financial advisor.

Mr. Alland has extensive experience with mining projects worldwide, starting with early attempts in the 1970s to develop the Tenke-Fungurume copper project in Congo (then Zaire), and, following, in 1975 to 1986, with major projects by Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines, ZCCM, (then Nchanga Consolidated Copper Mines, NCCM), including the financing and review of the company’s major expansion projects, among them its major copper tailings leach and cobalt projects, as well as supervision of the company’s activities throughout the period. Mr. Alland’s subsequent activities in minerals and mining involved the LAMCO iron ore project in Liberia, the MIBA diamond project and the Kilimoto gold project in Congo (Zaire), and financing of the Alucam (Pechiney) aluminum smelter in Cameroon. Subsequent experience in 1990 to 1992 involved mining projects in South America, including Escondida (copper) in Chile, Comsur, largest private mining company in Bolivia, Yanacocha (gold) and Southern Peru Copper in Peru. Mr. Alland was board director of Comsur and alternate director of Escondida.

Mr. Alland holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Harvard College. He speaks English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Thai.

Mr. Eke started his career in stockbroking and insurance with Shepphards & Chase and then Hogg Robinson plc. Over the last 15 years he has held directorships of a large number of companies, principally involved in equity investments, property ownership and management, and hotel operations, where he has been tasked with rationalising and restructuring operations to enhance profitability. Mr. Eke is currently the Chairman of betinternet.com plc and Managing Director of Burnbrae Group Ltd.

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 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., including, for Apollo Gold Corporation, Royal Standard Minerals Inc., Guyana Goldfields Inc., European Minerals Corporation, Defiance Mining Corporation (merged with Rio Narcea Gold Mines Ltd., which in turn was merged with Lundin Mining Corporation), Weda Bay Minerals Inc. (sold to Eramet S.A.), Apac Minerals Inc. (now Golden China Resources Corporation which was merged with Sino Gold Mining Limited), African Gold PLC (now Mwana Africa PLC), Red Dragon Resources and Regent Pacific Group Limited (Hong Kong).

He also was the Chairman and founder of Caledon Resources PLC (formerly Finelot 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. He also co-founded Everfor Diamonds PLC, a Kola Peninsula diamond explorer traded on AIM.

In the mid-1990s, Mr. Dattels founded International Gold Resources Corporation which he brought from inception to its sale in 1996 to Ashanti Goldfields Company Limited. In 2007, 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. Dattels is currently the Executive Chairman of AIM-listed Polo Resources Limited, a coal exploration and development company with exploration coal assets in Mongolia, as well as holdings in GCM Resources plc and Caledon Resources plc.

Mr. Dattels has a bachelor of arts from McGill University, a law degree (cum laude) from the University of Western Ontario and has completed the Program for Management Development at Harvard.

Mr. Mellon has been a fund manager for twenty years, after graduating from Oxford University. He is the principal shareholder of Burnbrae Limited and is an avid participant in a number of markets, in particular the stock markets of emerging nations. Mr. Mellon started his career by investing in Asian and American stocks and, with his business partner, went on to pioneer investment in closed end funds.

Mr. Mellon worked for GT Management Plc from 1978 to 1984. In July 1984, he joined the Thornton Group where he was Managing Director of the Asian operation. From 1988 to 1990, he was an executive director of Tyndall Holdings Plc responsible for business expansion and corporate development.

Mr. Mellon is currently the co-chairman of Regent Pacific Group Limited and a non-executive director of Charlemagne Capital Limited, which is currently listed on the AIM market.

Mr. Mellon holds a masters degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University.

Mr. Weller has thirty years of experience in the marketing and trading of base metals, ferroalloys, minor metals and industrial minerals worldwide with particular experience in Europe (including emerging central Europe), CIS and the Americas, having graduated from Southampton University with a BSc in Physical Geography and then joining Noranda Sales Corporation.

Mr. Weller has been Managing Director of Euromin SA since 2001 having joined the trading team in 2000. Euromin is an international metals and ores trading subsidiary 100 per cent. owned by the Vitol Group. Euromin's focus is on the zinc business and associated metals/secondaries and the company is particularly active in Russia and the Black Sea region in partnership with the Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant (CZP). Mr. Weller was a Director of CZP from 2001 to 2003 when CZP was under the ownership of the Vitol Group.

Prior to joining Euromin, Mr. Weller was a Director of Noranda Sales Corporation (London) from 1982 to 1993, handling the marketing of a diverse range of ores, concentrates and metals including molybdenum, manganese, alumina, fluorite, zinc, lead and minor/precious metals in Europe, Africa and the former Comecon. From 1993 until 1998, Mr. Weller was commercial vice president for Noranda/Falconbridge Group based in Toronto with responsibility for marketing and sourcing zinc and lead raw materials for the Group's mines and smelters in international markets.