Corporate Profile

Mr. Piggott initially made his name by developing innovative mining systems in the copper & cobalt mines of Zambia at Luanshya, and at Chibuluma, Chambishi and Kalengwa as Mine Superintendent.  He then operated an exploration company in Australia and Papua New Guinea, identifying the gold cap of the Ok Tedi copper orebody, which was then dealt to BHP, which recovered two million ounces of gold in the first three years of production.  Over the past 30 years, he has started and produced (mostly through companies that he has controlled) numerous gold/silver, tin, tungsten, rutile/zircon open pit and heap leach mines in Australia and Mexico utilizing innovative technology to maximize profits. He sold his Australian operations in 1987 to concentrate on developing metallurgical technologies, one of which is a patented dry processing for heavy minerals, which is used today in Australia and Mexico.  For the last twelve years, he has focused on gold production in Mexico and on exploration opportunities for near-term gold/silver production in Mexico and Latin America.  He has launched two Mexican gold mines which have each been in continuous production for twelve and five years, respectively.  Mr. Piggott graduated in Mining Engineering from the Camborne School of Mines in the UK and from the Executive Development Program at the London Business School.  

Mr. Farrant is a chartered accountant with 14 years of financial and senior management experience in the gold mining sector with both senior and junior gold producers. Most recently he served as President and CEO of Sierra Minerals Inc. after having served as CFO of a number of junior development stage and producing mining companies. During his 6 years with Barrick Gold Corporation and 3 years with Kinross Gold Corporation, he held progressively senior finance positions, including Vice President and Treasurer of Kinross. Mr. Farrant holds a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours, from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and earned his CA designation in 1995 while with Coopers & Lybrand. Mr. Farrant is also a Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Everton Resources Inc. (TSX-V: EVR)

Mr. Sedun is President of Global Vision Capital Corp., an independent venture capital firm based in Vancouver, Canada, as well as current Chairman and CEO of Uracan Resources Ltd. (URC: TSX-V), a Canadian uranium exploration company.  He is a former corporate finance/securities and mining lawyer, having practiced law for 14 years. Thereafter, he was president of another private venture capital firm for seven years and was President and CEO of Diamond Fields International Ltd., a TSX-listed company, for over two years.  Mr. Sedun has been a founding shareholder and/or director in a number of successful companies including Diamond Fields Resources Inc. (acquired by Inco for $4.3 billion in the largest takeover of a Canadian junior mining company); Adastra Minerals Inc. (acquired by First Quantum Minerals for approximately $300 million in stock); Peru Copper Inc. (acquired in an all-cash $840 million takeover by Chinalco); Geovic Mining Corp., which is developing a world-class cobalt/nickel mine in Cameroon, Africa (raised over $100 million of equity in its first year as a public company); and Uracan Resources Ltd., which has discovered a large uranium resource in Canada of over 40 million lbs and growing.

Mr. Sutherland is a Vancouver-based specialist in corporate finance, resource and growth companies. He was CFO of Arequipa Resources leading up to its acquisition by Barrick Gold for $1.1 billion. He was also a partner in a venture capital company specializing in worldwide marketing ventures and previous to that, Site Manager in building a $110 million gold mine in California. Most recently, he was co-founder, Vice-President and CFO of Tekion, Inc., a micro fuel cell developer, and was a key partner in its growth from 4 to 75 employees in under three years and raising US$18 million for this private company. Prior to Tekion, he was President and CEO of ASC AVCAN Systems Inc. and built the company into an international operation. He currently is a Corporate Director of five public companies, one of which is listed on NYSE/AMEX. Mr. Sutherland is a Certified General Accountant and has a diploma in Operations Management from the B.C. Institute of Technology.

Mr. Sullivan is a graduate geologist from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He has twenty years of gold exploration experience in Australia, during which time he was instrumental in the discovery of the Mt. Leyshon gold deposit which subsequently produced in excess of 2.5m oz of gold. For the past ten years, Mr. Sullivan has worked in Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Chile exploring for and assessing various gold projects, two of which he has helped put into production.

Mr. Escandon is a graduate geological engineer from the National University of Mexico, with more than 40 years of experience in exploration and mining. Mr. Escandon's varied experience includes mine design, metallurgical research, feasibility studies and environmental studies. Mr. Escandon was the Director in charge of the Consejo de Recursos Minerales, Mexico's national Mining Bureau for six years. He is a qualifed professional as defined by Canadian NI 43-101 regulations.

Mr. Fry began his career in 1985 with McCann Erickson Advertising. After 8 years in the advertising business as a senior account director, he founded his own corporate communications company, Virilian Communications, and began working with public companies. He became a director of Lima Gold Corp in 1995 and subsequently founded Market Capital Corp in 1997 for the purpose of raising capital for public and private companies. He has been acting as a corporate finance/corporate communications consultant since that time.