Chairman – Ray Miller B.Comm, FAICD, FCPA

Ray Miller has had over 25 years experience as an executive in the resources industry in both public and private company roles. He has diverse international and domestic experience with a proven track record in executive management, directorships and operational experience in finance, strategy and project development and their implementations, risk management and corporate governance.

Mr Miller formerly held a number of executive positions including Chief Financial Officer with MIM Holdings, Vice President Finance BHP Minerals-Steel making and Energy Materials Group. In conjunction with other senior ex-MIM executives, Mr Miller assisted in the setting up of Gallipoli Mining Pty Ltd, a private company whose goal is to identify strategic investment opportunities for its major shareholder Nippon Mining and Metals of Japan. In addition, Mr Miller has held a number of Directorships on International advisory Boards.

Mr Miller is currently Chairman of Qmastor Limited, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Fellow of the Australian Society of CPA’s.

Managing Director - Jeremy Read BSc (Hons), MAusIMM

Jeremy Read has 22 years domestic and international minerals exploration experience and was previously the Manager of BHP Minerals Australian Exploration Team. He has extensive exploration experience for gold, nickel sulphides and base metals. Mr Read played a critical role in the discovery of the Kabanga North Nickel deposit, in Tanzania which is currently undergoing feasibility studies . He is skilled in developing new technical teams, management of technical/specialist service groups, project generation activities, risk management, multi-commodity mineral exploration, company listings and capital raisings. During his employment with BHP Mr Read participated in the development of several significant strategic exploration alliances. Mr Read was the founding Managing Director of Discovery Metals from its incorporation in May 2003 until his appointment as a non-executive Director in February 2008. He is the founding Managing Director of Meridian Minerals Limited.

Director – Michael Howard B.Eng (Mining) (Hons)

Michael Howard has over 30 years experience in the mining industry, having worked in various capacities with BHP and related companies from 1973 through to 2000 (including Manager – OK Tedi Liaison, and General Manager of a mine and a smelter complex).

More recently, Mr Howard has been involved in mineral exploration and project evaluation from Greenfields projects through to mature operations in a number of commodities. Mr Howard also has experience in the development, financing and managing of projects for entities such as ASX listed, Midwest Corporation Limited, holding the position of COO of Midwest between 2004 and 2006.

Mr Howard is currently involved in consultancy work and provides advice to a range of companies on project reviews and developments.

Director – Paul Niardone, BA. MBA

Paul Niardone is the Executive Director for Professional Public Relations (WA) and is experienced in marketing, investor relations and strategic planning for clients in both government and the private sector.

Mr Niardone began his career in the Department of Cabinet and Parliamentary Services and has held management positions with the Peel Region Business Enterprise Centre, the Department of Commerce and Trade and Westpac Bank before starting Professional Public Relations (WA). Mr Niardone has co-authored and produced a publication "A Guide To Buying A Business" which is currently still being sold. He lectures at universities and currently sits on the Murdoch University Business School Board and conducts in-house corporate planning and marketing sessions. Mr Niardone is also a director of the Small Business Development Corporation in WA.

Mr Niardone has sat on the boards of a number of public and private companies and not-for-profit organisations. He is also a member of the Australian Marketing Institute, Institute of Management Consultants and the Institute of Company Directors. Mr Niardone previously sat as Chairman of Bellevue Resources until the company acquired Meridian Minerals and he remained on the Board as a Director.

Executive Director – Mr Zhao Shaoru

Mr Zhao has over 20 years mining experience and is the key founder of several mines for Northwest Mining and Geology Group Co., Ltd for Nonferrous Metals (NWME). NWME is one of China’s top five exploration and mining Bureaus (amongst over 100 provincial Bureaus) in terms of revenue and technical capacity.

Mr Zhao has extensive experience and professional knowledge for lead-zinc developing projects and is experienced in building a mine from the beginning to the normal operating stage.

Mr Zhao is a graduate in mining engineering at the China South University, recognised as one of China’s best universities in the mining and geology field.

Company Secretary – Ros Shand BA, LLB, FCIS

Roslynn Shand has a combined degree in Arts/Law from the University of Queensland, is a fellow of the Chartered Secretaries Australia and has considerable experience in the company secretarial area. She has been a company secretary for over 15 years for entities in the financial, agricultural and mining sectors.

Chief Financial Officer – Rick Govender B.Comm, MBA, ASA(CPA),CSA(Cert.)

Rick Govender’s expertise covers financial and management assignments with publicly listed and large proprietary companies, including compliance and risk management, company secretarial and reporting for international entities. His experience extends to performing special due diligence and preparation of board and ASX reports for historical and prospective financial information. Rick works closely with boards and executive management to assist them in achieving solutions and meeting ongoing regulatory and financial requirements. Rick has dealt with both domestic and international organisations, in the IPO department as well as the ongoing reporting requirements to these companies. Rick’s experience covers a wide range of industries, company sizes and reporting issues, and he is a member of CPA and CIS (Australia) as well as an MBA graduate.

Exploration Manager – Dr Quinton Hills B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D., AusIMM

Dr Quinton Hills is an experienced mineral exploration industry professional, most recently leading the exploration team which has identified over 45 million tonnes at 1.3% copper at Discovery Metals Limited’s Copper Project in northwest Botswana. He has also worked as a geological consultant for Teck Cominco, Copperstrike, Aditya Birla, Strategic Minerals and Intrepid Geophysics. His recent work has involved commodity styles such as intrusion-related, epithermal and mesothermal gold deposits, syn-depositional to syn-orogenic copper, strataform zinc-lead-silver mineralisation (Broken Hill type and SEDEX) and magmatic nickel and copper mineralisation.

Dr Hills has planned and managed exploration programs throughout eastern Australia and Botswana. Dr Hills completed a Ph.D. studying the deformational and metamorphic history of the Georgetown Inlet in northern Queensland. As a part of his Ph.D study, Dr Hills compared the tectonic evolution of the Georgetown Inlet with the highly mineralised terranes of Mt. Isa and Broken Hill.

Commercial Manager – Ian Wallace

Through corporate positions with Renison Goldfields, Pancontinental Mining, BHP Billiton and most recently Anglo American Coal, Ian has over 30 years diverse experience in the Exploration and Mining industry. Across Gold, Base Metals, Coal and Seamgas, Ian’s areas of expertise are Exploration Joint Venture and Commercial contract negotiations and management, Native Title, Aboriginal Cultural Heritage and Mining Tenure management.