Mr Ian Middlemas B.Com, CA

Chairman

Mr Middlemas is a Chartered Accountant, a member of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree. He worked for a large international Chartered Accounting firm before joining the Normandy Mining Group where he was a senior group executive for approximately 10 years. He has had extensive corporate and management experience, and is currently a director with a number of publicly listed companies in the resources sector.

Mr Middlemas was appointed a Director of the Company on 9 March 2007 and Chairman on 16 May 2007. During the three year period to the end of the financial year, Mr Middlemas has held directorships in Salinas Energy Limited (November 1995 - present), OmegaCorp Ltd (October 2000 - August 2007), Global Petroleum Limited (April 2007 - present), Syngas Limited (May 2007 - February 2008), Indo Mines Limited (December 2006 - present), Mantra Resources Limited (September 2005 - present), Newport Mining Limited (September 2008 - present), Mavuzi Resources Limited (January 2007 - March 2008), Odyssey Energy Limited (September 2005 - present), Pacific Energy Limited (June 2006 - present), QED Occtech Limited (July 2001 - present), Sierra Mining Limited (January 2006 - present), Sovereign Metals Limited (July 2006 - present), Fusion Resources Limited (May 2002 - March 2009) and Berkeley Resources Ltd (July 2003 - November 2006).