Directors

John Kearney, chairman

Irish, born 1951, a mining executive with over 29 years experience in the mining industry. He is a director of several public resource companies. Those listed in the UK include Anglesey and Minco plc.

Throughout his career he has worked with the Northgate Group, the developer of the Irish mineral industry, firstly in Ireland at Tynagh, Gortdrum and the Tara mine (now owned by Outoukumpu and the largest zinc mine in Europe). In 1981 he was appointed executive vice president at Northgate's head office in Toronto and succeeded Pat Hughes as president of Northgate in 1987 and as chairman in 1992; he has since resigned. Under Mr. Kearney's direction, Northgate operated the Copper Rand, Portage and Lemoine mines at Chibougamou, Quebec, the Campbell Resources and Joe Mann mines, also in Quebec, the Sonora gold mine in California, the Colomac mine in Canada's North West Territories and the Choquelimpie mine in Chile as well as investments in other companies and operations in north and south America and Australia.

He was appointed chairman of Anglesey in late 1994 and lead the corporate re-organisation and re-capitalisation of the company during 1995 and 1996 leading to the re-establishment of Anglesey as an active minerals company in 1997.

He holds degrees in Law and Economics from University College, Dublin and an MBA from Trinity College, Dublin. He is qualified as a solicitor with the Law Society of Ireland and as a chartered secretary with the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of London.

He has presented papers, a number of which have been published, at conventions and meetings on topics including mining, mergers and acquisitions, and mine financing. He is a member of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the Prospectors and Developers Society of Canada and the Law Society of Ireland.

Bill Hooley, chief executive

Bill Hooley, born 1947, has extensive experience in Australia, the UK and North America in mineral project development and assessment. A graduate in Mining Engineering from Imperial College, Royal School of Mines, he is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He has worked for a number of major mining companies as well as running a number of junior mining companies. Prior to joining Anglesey, he was managing director of Micon International Co Limited, the internationally respected minerals consulting group.

Ian Cuthbertson, finance director

British, born 1947, finance director, is a chartered accountant. He has extensive experience in the international oilfield and construction industries and has been secretary of the company since its flotation in 1988. He qualified as a chartered accountant with Coopers & Lybrand in 1969 and joined Santa Fe, the largest land based oil well drilling company, in 1972 spending the next 11 years overseas in a wide variety of posts. His particular specialities include contract and project management and accounting, corporate finance and company management.

Non-executive directors

David Lean

Australian, born 1946, 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

British, born 1944, 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.

Roger Turner

Roger Turner has more than 30 years worldwide experience in mine engineering, management and project development in both open pit and underground mining. A graduate in Mining Engineering from the Camborne School of Mines, with an MSc in Economic Geology from Leicester University, he is a member of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy UK, the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the American Institute of Mining Engineers.

Early in his career he worked as a mine manager for Noranda and Hudson Bay in Canada and for Falconbridge in Africa. In the UK he was manager of the Westfield open pit coal mine in Scotland and the Wheal Jane tin mine in Cornwall for Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation. As a mining consultant he worked for, amongst others, Warrior International (now Standard Bank) and Samuel Montagu & Company. In 1994 he was appointed President of Nelson Gold Corporation and was responsible for the financing, construction and start up of the Jilau gold mine in Tajikistan. From 1996 to 2002 he was co-founder, President and CEO of Oxus Gold plc, and was responsible for the acquisition and development of the Amantaytau gold mine in Uzbekistan. Mr. Turner is currently chairman of Minco plc and Ovoca Gold plc.

Danesh Varma

Canadian, born 1950, 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. He is also a director of a number of many resource companies including Westfield Minerals Limited and Northgate Exploration Limited.