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MINTAILS OWNS THE RIGHTS TO PROCESS AND EXTRACT GOLD AND URANIUM FROM OVER 330 MILLION TONNES OF SLIMES, SANDS AND ROCK TAILINGS MATERIALS MAINLY LOCATED ON SOUTH AFRICA'S HISTORIC WEST RAND.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Bryan Frost

Executive Chairman

Bryan was a partner of a Melbourne based stockbroking firm until 1973, where he specialised in advising international investors, banks and investment funds on Australian arbitrage and investments. Over the past 32 years he has been involved in a number of public companies as an executive director and major shareholder and possesses extensive experience in financial engineering and management.

Bryan was appointed to the board on 4 September 2003.

Bryan is also Chairman of Mining Projects Group Limited, Peregrine Corporate Limited, and a director of Cangold Limited (Canada).

Dick van der Walt

Managing Director - CEO - BLC, LLB, LLM

Dick was appointed Group CEO on 16 November 2005. He was born and educated in South Africa and holds BLC and LLB Degrees in Law from University of Pretoria and LLM - Masters Degree in Law from the University of South Africa.

Dick's background in law and investment banking has provided him with requisite skill and experience to confidently oversee and implement Mintails strategic goals. Dick has personally ensured that the company has been successfully able to negotiate and satisfy its obligations under South African Mining Law and the prevailing Black Economic Empowerment Code of Practice.

Lloyd Birrell

Special Projects Director - BCom (Acc)

Lloyd holds a B.Com (Acc) from UTC and B.Proc from UNISA. He practiced as a forensic and litigation accountant for ten years, appearing as an expert witness in the High Court on more than forty occasions. In 2000 he was appointed as the Southern African commercial and legal representative to Sonatrach, Algeria's Hydrocarbon and Petrochemical Co. After five years of intensive involvement in the energy industry he commenced work for SGM, dealing with commercial and legal issues.

Lloyd has been appointed Head of Special Projects which currently comprise:

• sale of non-core assets, such as rock and sand for aggregate usage;
• CMD, the division responsible for the demolition, refurbishment and relocation of the specific parts of Brakpan and East Dagga plants;
• conversion of land into commercially viable and subsequently saleable assets;
• general commercial and strategic issues;

Basie Maree

Executive Director - B.Tech (Environmental Management), NDT

Mr Basie Maree joined Mintails Executive Team on 21 January 2008, in the capacity of Group Chief Operating Officer, and joined the board in April 2008. Mr Maree began consulting as a metallurgist to Anglo American’s Gold and Uranium Division. This Division was later restructured into AngloGold Ashanti where he was appointed Head of Metallurgy and General Manager in 1999 for South African Metallurgical Operations. Mr Maree held this executive position until 2005 when he was promoted to Head of Metallurgy – Africa for AngloGold Ashanti. Under this position Mr Maree was responsible for managing AngloGold Ashanti’s project management and technical advisory divisions for their African Operations.

In his position as Group Executive Operations, Mr Maree will be able to contribute his technical and operational expertise to optimize the potential of Mintails large resource base and ensure that production milestones are achieved as the company moves into its next phase of development, mine commissioning and production.

Mr Maree holds a National Diploma in Extraction Metallurgy and also a B.Tech.Degree in Environmental Management. He also serves as a non-executive director for Nuclear Fuels Corp of SA, the International Cyanide Management Institute and Morila Gold Mine in Mali. In addition, he is a trustee of the AngloGold Ashanti (SAR) Environmental Trust Fund and is registered with ECSA as a Professional Engineering Technologist.

Richard Revelins

Executive Director - BCom, MAICD

Richard has held numerous public company board position and senior executive positions in merchant banking and stockbroking firms and has acted as an advisor to a number of public companies in such matters as takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, sale of businesses, debt and equity raisings and strategic financial advice.

Richard was appointed on 4 September 2003 and is a member of the Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee.

Richard is currently a director of Mining Projects Group Limited, Cangold Limited (Canada) and Peregrine Corporate Limited. He is company secretary of Prana Biotechnology Limited.

Bernard Swanepoel

Non-Executive Director

Bernard Swanepoel joined the board as a non-executive director on 21 January 2008. Mr Swanepoel will focus on strategic growth initiatives, options available to increase group value and the optimization of the Company’s current asset portfolio.

Mr. Swanepoel has tremendous experience and an unparalleled track record within the mining industry in South Africa. Under his management, the Beatrix Mine became the lowest cost producer in South African gold mining. For 12 years, he was Chief Executive of Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited, where under his leadership, Harmony grew from a 680,000 oz per year producer in 1995 to a 2.3m oz per year producer in 2007. Mr. Swanepoel is currently the founder and director of To the Point Growth Specialists – a consulting firm providing companies in the mining industry with advice on growth strategies.

Mr Swanepoel sits on the advisory boards of both the Wits Business School as well as the Pretoria University’s mining engineering department. He is also a non-executive director of ARM Limited and Sanlam Limited.

Charles Scorer

Non Executive Director - B.SC Eng. (Mech), Dip. Production Engineering

Mr Scorer was born in Johannesburg and holds a B.Sc Eng. (Mech) degree from the university of Natal and a diploma of production engineering from the Witwatersrand Technikon. Mr Scorer joins the board with an outstanding technical background and many years of relevant South African mining experience having previously held senior executive positions at the Chamber of Mines Research Organisation until joining the Nuclear Fuels Corporation of South Africa (Pty) Ltd (Nufcor) in 1989. Mr Scorer became General Manager of Nufcor in 1993 and was appointed Managing Director in 1996. His primary responsibility was the marketing of all South African origin uranium in addition to the final processing of uranium concentrates at the Nufcor SA calcining plant in Westonaria, South Africa. This experience will be invaluable to Mintails and in particular in the development of Stage 2 of the ERGO Mines Joint Venture (East Rand) and Stage 2 of WERGO (West Rand) which provide for the establishment of uranium processing circuits.

During his time with Nufcor SA he developed the company from being a mining industry co-operative to that of a principal marketing and trading company. He was responsible for initiating the marketing and transport of enriched uranium product from South Africa to the international nuclear fuel market.

Mr Scorer is a past Principal Council Member of the Uranium Institute (Now the World Nuclear Association) and in 1996 was appointed as a member of its executive committee.

In October 1998 Mr. Scorer formed Nufcor International Limited (NIL), a UK based joint venture between AngloGold Ashanti Limited and First Rand International Limited. NIL developed into one of the industry’s prominent trading companies participating in the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle.

Mr. Scorer resigned from NIL in January in advance of the sale of NIL to an industry participant and he is currently involved in developing operational assets in the nuclear sector.

Peter Chapman

Non Executive Director - ASIA, FAICD

Peter was an executive director of Tolhurst Noall Group Limited from its inception until November 2004. Peter's career in the stockbroking and financial services industry spans 30 years during which time he has held positions as Chief Executive, Senior Partner and Chairman. Peter is a former Affiliate of The Australian Stock Exchange Limited, an Associate of The Securities Institute of Australia and a Fellow of The Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Peter was appointed to the Board of the Company on 16 November 2005 and is Chairman of the Audit Risk and Compliance Committee and the Remuneration Committee.

Peter is currently a director of Persia Petroleum Services PLC.