ULRICH RATH
President & Chief Executive Officer, Director

Mr. Rath has over 35 years of experience in the mining industry. Mr. Rath has been the President and Senior Partner of FOCUS-Rath and Associates Ltd. (a management company providing advisory services to mining companies) since April 2003. Mr. Rath was the President and Chief Executive Officer of EAGC Ventures Corp. (a mining company operating in South Africa and acquired by Bema Gold Corp. in February 2004) from April 2002 to March 2003, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Compania Minera Milpo S.A.A. (a Peruvian mining company with two operations and a focus on the development of medium sized-mines such as Cerro Lindo) from April 1999 to December 2001 and the Vice-President, Corporate Development of Rio Algom Limited (a senior Canadian mining company acquired by BHP Billiton PLC in October 2000) from December 1992 to November 1998.

Mr. Rath has led or been a senior member of the project management teams responsible for the development of three mines in South America, including Antamina (a U.S.$2.1 billion copper/zinc mine located in Peru which is owned by Noranda Inc., BHP Billiton PLC, Teck Cominco Limited and Mitsubishi Corporation), Bajo de la Alumbrera (a U.S.$1.2 billion gold/copper mine located in Argentina which is owned by Xstrata PLC, Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. and Northern Orion Resources Inc.) and Cerro Colorado (a U.S.$600 million copper mine located in Chile which is owned by BHP Billiton PLC). Mr. Rath holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada and a Masters of Science degree in Geology from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.


FERNANDO PORCILE
Director

Mr. Porcile is a mineral engineer with over 40 years of experience in the mining industry. Most recently, Mr. Porcile was President, South America Copper for Falconbridge Limited with responsibility for managing Falconbridge's copper assets in South America (including the Lomas Bayas mining operations, the Altonorte smelter and Falconbridge's interests in Collahuasi and Antamina). Prior to 2002, Mr. Porcile was Vice President, Project Development for BHP Billiton Base Metals with responsibility for several key projects and prior to that he held a variety of positions with Rio Algom Limited (including President of Compania Minera Cerro Colorado). He also worked for CODELCO (a major Chilean copper producer).


ROBERT (BOB) BAXTER
Director

Mr. Baxter has over 20 years of experience in the mining industry (principally in Latin America). Mr. Baxter was the General Manager of Baxter Consultants Engineering (a consulting company providing project appraisals to mining companies located primarily in Peru) from September 2000 to June 2002, the Business Development Coordinator Americas for North Limited (a senior Australian mining company acquired by Rio Tinto PLC in October 2000) from May 2000 to September 2000, the Regional Geologist, Americas for North Limited from June 1999 to May 2000 and the Regional Manager (Chile/Argentina) for North Limited from November 1996 to June 1999. Mr. Baxter has an Applied Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree from the University of New South Wales.


JOHN KUTKEVICIUS
Director

Mr. Kutkevicius is a practicing lawyer with over 12 years of experience. Mr. Kutkevicius has been a partner of the Toronto law firm of Kutkevicius Kirsh, LLP since January 1, 2000 where he practices in the area of income tax law. Prior to January 1, 2000, Mr. Kutkevicius was a partner at the law firm of Beach Hepburn LLP where he practiced law in the area of income tax law. Mr. Kutkevicius holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen’s University, a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Western Ontario and Masters of Law degree from York University. Mr. Kutkevicius is a member of the Canadian Tax Foundation.

E.G. (Ed) THOMPSON
Director

Mr. Thompson is a professional engineer and geologist with over forty five years experience in all aspects of management in the North and South American mining industry. He is the President of E.G. Thompson Mining Consultants Inc., and is a past President of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada. His career started in the late 1950’s with Teck Corp. as a geologist, followed by senior positions at Lacana Mining Corp., a sponsor of the Cordex Syndicate in Nevada. During 1986 to 1990, he was the President of Mingold Resources (Canada) and a director of Exploration of Westgold Resources (USA) and was active in gold exploration and acquisitions. He is a director of Aurogin Resources Ltd., Freewest Resources Canada Inc., Western Troy Capital Resources Inc., Tri Origin Exploration Ltd., and is the Chairman and a director of Sparton Resources Inc. and Golden Queen Mining Co. Ltd. and for more than the past five years has been the President and director of Thompson Lundmark Gold Mines Ltd.

DAVID R. BELL
Director

Mr. Bell is a private consultant, operating his own business, Bell Geological Services, consulting to various companies in the mining community for the past 15 years. Mr. Bell was previously employed by Falconbridge Nickel Mines as a miner and geologist, where he worked in the Sudbury Basin and completed exploration work in Blind River, Thunder Bay, Northern Manitoba and British Columbia. Mr. Bell was also mine geologist for Dome Mines Ltd. at Dome Mines in Timmins, and a project geologist for Dome Mines Ltd. during the feasibility stage of Detour Lake Mine in the James Bay Lowlands. He has evaluated and reported on over sixty regional projects in Canada, the United States, Australia, Philippines, Africa and Europe. He also received the Prospector of the Year award (1982) in recognition of his discoveries in the Hemlo Gold Camp, Ontario. Mr. Bell is currently the Chairman and a director of Silk Road Resources Ltd. and is also a director of Beaufiled Consolidated Resources Inc. and Unigold Resources Inc.

PETER BLUNT, CGA Ontario.
Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary

Mr. Blunt has more than 35 years of accounting and finance experience in Canadian and overseas corporate financial management sectors having spent time as treasurer with the Sheridan Group of companies and CFO and Treasurer with North American Palladium. Since 1998 Mr. Blunt has been Financial Controller for a number of companies operating in the Caribbean and North America.

JOHN KAPUSTA
Vice President Geology

Mr. Kapusta has had 28 years of experience in the exploration and mining industry, including working at the Antamina project and at the Bulyanhulu mine. Mr. Kapusta, who is very familiar with the Peruvian geological and exploration environment, will be concentrating the bulk of his efforts on facilitating the transition of the Mina Justa project through the Feasibility Study and construction, into production. Mr. Kapusta and his family will reside in to Lima with the Marcobre SAC team.