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I BOARD OF DIRECTORS HIGHLY EXPERIENCED MANAGEMENT TEAM Left to right: Jason Berton, Cathy Moises, Bob Duffin, lan Morgan, Wayne Rossiter. BOB DUFFIN | Non-Executive Charmain | BSc (Hons), MSc (Hons), Grad Dip Mgt, FAusIMM Bob is an experienced company director with over 45 years' experience in resource exploration, project assessment, mining investment analysis, and company management. Bob lived and worked in mining communities whilst holding senior positions in the exploration divisions of Peko Wallsend and MIM Holdings. He was also the Managing Director of Austirex International, an international resource exploration consulting and contracting firm. He has also worked with three stockbroking firms and was head of research at one of Australia's leading resource sector brokers in the 1980s. Bob is a former Non-Executive Director of a number of companies, including Centennial Coal, Midwest Corporation, Ferrowest, Burmine, Austmin Gold, Mt Lyell, the UK resources investment company Europa Minerals Group, and Mancala, a mining contractor. Most recently he was the Chairman of WPG Resources that operated two gold mines in South Australia and also acquired and developed the Peculiar Knob, Buzzard and Tui iron projects which were divested resulting in a significant return for shareholders. WAYNE ROSSITER | Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer | BE (Mining), CA, MappFin, MAus/MM, GMAICD Wayne is both a mining engineer and a chartered accountant. Wayne has held senior finance and management roles in resource and energy companies. He has knowledge and experience in transitioning companies from the exploration stage through to development and into production. His range of experience includes underground coal gasification, coal seam gas, coal, conventional oil and gas, precious metals, gold and iron ore with global experience covering Australia, Africa, China, Indonesia, the USA, the UK, the former Soviet Republic of Georgia and the Middle East. Most recently Wayne was Chief Executive Officer of WPG Resources where he operated the underground Challenger gold mine, the open cut Tarcoola gold mine along with a portfolio of exploration and development projects. He is currently a corporate advisor with a boutique broking and advisory firm with extensive resources experience. CATHY MOISES | Deputy Chair & Lead Independent Non-Executive Director | BSc (Hons), Dip SIA Cathy is a geologist and mining investment analyst who has transitioned to corporate roles and a career more recently as an independent non-executive director of several listed companies. In her career as a mining analyst, she worked with McIntosh (now Merrill Lynch), County Securities (now Citigroup), Evans and Partners, and Patersons Securities, where she was head of research. She then moved to the corporate sector where she became head of investor relations and business development at Perseus Mining. She is non-executive chair of Pacgold, an independent non-executive director of WA Kaolin, Arafura Resources, Australian Potash, Podium Minerals, and Pearl Gull. She is also an independent member of the investment committee at Argonaut Securities. Her key areas of industry experience include gold, base metals, mineral sands and the rare earths sector. JASON BERTON | Independent Non-Executive Director | BEC BSc (Hons) PhD Jason is a geologist and company director. He started his career as an exploration and mine geologist at the Plutonic gold mine in Western Australia then moved to BHP Billiton in South Australia, where he worked on the Olympic Dam mine expansion project. He has also worked with SRK, an international firm of consulting geologists, and spent two years in private equity assessing resource sector investment opportunities. He is a former managing director of Estrella Resources, and is a director of PolarX, where he played a major role in negotiating the acquisition of key tenements in North America. Jason's honours thesis was focussed on the geology of the Lake Cargelligo area in New South Wales, close to the Company's Browns Reef deposit, and his doctorate was in structural geology. He has strong entrepreneurial and corporate skills, as well as a very firm understanding of structural geology and its role in the formation of metalliferous orebodies. 5 EASTERN METALS
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