Mr. Kimura has practiced as a mine geologist, exploration geologist, mine engineer and consulting geologist for the past 48 years in Canada. His experience has included 6 years of underground mine geology, 15 years of open pit mine geology and exploration, 4 years of mine engineering at a large open pit mine and 16 years of mineral exploration across Canada.

Mr. Kimura s been consulting for several mining and exploration companies for the past seven years on porphyry copper-gold, epithermal precious metal and Archean gold deposits primarly with Placer Dome Inc.

Mr. Kimura is a registered Professional Geoscientist with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia. He is a life member of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. A fellow member of the geological association of Canada, and a member of the Society of economic geologists.

Mr. Kimura graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts and Science degree in geology and physics.

Mr. Jackson is a senior geologist with 37 years in the mineral exploration industry. His past experience has involved exploration and development of both base and precious metal deposits in a wide range of environments for both large and small companies.

Mr. Jackson was partly responsible for the discovery and development of several major mineral deposits including the Red Dog, multi-billion dollar zinc deposit in northwestern Alaska for Cominco Resources Inc., and the discovery and development of the Borealis, South McCoy and Manhattan Gold deposits in Nevada for Houston Oil and Minerals Corp.

Mr. Jackson's corporate experience includes founding, Crown Resource Corp. in 1981 where he was instrumental in putting into production three major gold deposits. Since working with Crown Resource Corp., Mr. Jackson has been involved in exploration and development projects with several public companies that include gold, silver, diamonds, base metals, industrial minerals, oil and gas.