Directors

John F. Kearney Irish, aged 50, chairman, is a mining executive with over 28 years experience in the mining industry. He is a director of several public resource companies including Minco plc and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
Ian Cuthbertson aged 54, finance director and company secretary, is a chartered accountant. He has extensive experience in the international oilfield and construction industries and has been secretary of the company since 1988
Danesh Varma Canadian, aged 51, non-executive director, is a chartered accountant and a fellow of the Institute of Taxation. He is president of American Resource Corporation and Dundee Bancorp (India) Private Limited and a director of The Dundee Bank. He is also a director of a number of resource companies.


Directors proposed at AGM

David Lean Australian, aged 54, non-executive director, is a chartered accountant. He has over 28 years experience in the mining industry most of which was with major base and precious metal mining houses in Australia, Europe and Canada. These included: Australian Mining & Smelting (now Pasminco, which was the Australian lead/zinc division of CRA/RTZ); Boliden, a major base and precious metals mining and smelting company in Sweden; and Curragh Inc., formerly a major lead, zinc and silver mining company in Canada. He was primarily involved in the commercial aspects of the industry. More recently his involvement in the mining industry has been in trading mineral products. He is also a director and financial controller of a public company in the USA not involved in mining.
Howard Miller aged 57, non-executive director, is a lawyer with over 30 years experience in the legal and financial sector in Southern Africa, Canada and the UK. He has been particularly involved in the financing of resource related companies. He is a director and former chairman of Nelson Resources Limited (formerly Nelson Gold Corporation Ltd.), a Toronto listed company, which operates a gold mine in Tajikistan and is developing oilfields in Kazakhstan. Until recently, he was a director and chief executive of Tahera Corporation, a Toronto listed company engaged in the exploration and development of diamond deposits in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.


Technical management

Peter Tyler
Aged 54, the company's chief geologist, has managed the Parys Mountain project since 1994. He has over 30 years experience in exploration and mining in Africa, north and central America, Europe and south east Asia.
He gained an honours degree in geology from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1967. He has been chief geologist at underground copper mines in British Columbia, Canada and an open pit copper mine in Ireland and has worked underground in the Witswatersrand gold mines in South Africa. He has managed exploration programmes around the world for a variety of commodities including copper, zinc, nickel and gold and was an associate with DMBW, a senior consulting group based in Toronto for a number of years.