Dr. Abbott is a Certified Professional Geologist with over 34 years of experience exploring for mineral deposits, 26 of them for gold in Nevada resulting in the acquisition of three gold orebodies that were subsequently mined profitably, the Tonkin, Big Springs and Golden Butte mines. Over his career, Dr. Abbott has consulted to the mining industry and has been an officer and director of several junior mining companies and has served as an executive of numerous professional mining associations. Dr. Abbott received his Ph.D. in geology from Rice University where he studied the tectonics of the western United States. He is a Qualified Person under the rules of National Instrument 43-101.

The Company has today also granted incentive stock options to its directors and consultants to purchase a total of 759,000 shares of the Company at a price of $1.00 per share. The options granted to directors expire on May 22, 2012 and are subject to a hold period that expires on September 23, 2007. The options granted to consultants of the Company are subject to the same terms as above except that they expire on May 22, 2009. Also, in accordance with the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange, all of the options are subject to vesting provisions for the first 18 months.

On Behalf of the Board of Directors,

"Eugene Beukman"

Eugene Beukman, President
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