Mr. Foreman graduated with honors from Queen's University in 1992 and has worked in a wide spectrum of geological environments involving both base and precious metals. He has worked for various junior mining and exploration companies in North and South America. Throughout the mid 1990's Mr. Foreman worked on a series of large multi-million dollar exploration programs in British Columbia, Yukon and Mexico. From 1998 through 2002 Mr. Foreman worked on various projects exclusively in Peru. As Chief Geologist, he was a key figure in putting the 1,000 tonne-per-day Santa Rosa open pit gold-silver mine into production.

Luca Riccio, PhD, P.Geo. is president of Riccio Geoconsulting Ltd. and former V.P. Exploration of Crystallex International. Dr. Riccio has been involved in the evaluation and/or supervision of gold, base metal, chromite, nickel-copper and PGMs projects in the Americas, Europe and Asia. He was responsible for the underground exploration and development at the New Britannia Mine in 1987-88 and the initial evaluation of the Andacollo gold project in Chile in 1989. In the early 1990's Dr. Riccio pioneered a regional exploration program in southeastern Venezuela, which led to the discovery of several gold deposits and one producing mine. Under his supervision, the reserves at Las Cristinas gold deposit in Venezuela increased from 10.0 to 12.6 million ounces. Dr. Riccio is fluent in four languages.

Edmundo (Mundo) Uribe Quintana (also know as Edmundo Sanchez Aldana Quintana) is a Mexican born entrepreneur that has founded a number of successful businesses in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. Mr. Uribe is the founder of Golden Anvil, S.A. de C.V., a Mexican mining company with one project in operation. During the first twenty years of his career, Mr Uribe participated in the introduction of innovative explosive technologies for the mining and construction industries, thus creating a wide network of business associates connected to the Mexican mining and exploration industry.

Mr. Hall is President and Chief Executive officer of Aurizon Mines and has been a Director of Aurizon since its inception in 1988. Mr. Hall is a Chartered Accountant who has been involved in the management of mineral exploration, development and operating companies since 1981 and has been instrumental in securing significant project and equity financing.

Mr. Bottomer is a professional geologist with more than 33 years of experience in global mineral exploration and development with major and junior mining companies - the last 16 years based in Vancouver, B.C. Currently, he is vice-president, corporate development, with Entree Gold Inc., a public company focused on mineral exploration in Mongolia and Central Asia. He was formerly director of Canadian exploration with Echo Bay Mines, and vice-president, new projects, with Prime Equities (Pezim Group). He is also a past president of the B.C. and Yukon Chamber of Mines, and currently an elected councillor on the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C.