Gavin Thomas

Gavin Thomas, Independent Director and Non Executive Chairman - has been a director and the Non Executive Chairman of the Company since January 2005. Mr. Thomas is a resource company executive with more than 32 years of international experience in exploring for, evaluating, developing, operating and reclaiming mines in North America, South America, Australia, the Southwest Pacific, Asia and Europe. Mr. Thomas has been the President of Kingsgate Consolidated Limited, a publicly traded Australian gold mining and exploration company since 2004. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director and CEO of Equatorial Mining Limited, a copper mining company from June 1998 to July 2004 and was the Managing Director of Asia Gold Mining Corporation Limited, a mineral exploration company, from April 1997 to May 1998.  From 1985 to 1997 he was an executive director and General Manager of Niugini Mining Limited and he was thier representative and a founding director of Lihir Gold Limited.

Mr. Thomas has a graduate degree in geology from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia and is a Fellow and Chartered Professional of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy ("AusIMM."). He is a member of the Geoscience Taskforce of the AusIMM.

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