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Directors

 
Kenneth MacDonald, President, Chief Executive Officer and Director

From September 1992 to present, Mr. MacDonald has been the president and owner of Fisher Transport Limited, a specialized transport company. Mr. MacDonald was Vice President of Finance for Kaoclay Resources Inc. (now Erdene Resources Inc.) from 1996 until it was acquired by Erdene. From 1985 to September 1992, he was involved as Vice-President Finance with public and private incorporations in the resource sector. Prior to 1985, Mr. MacDonald, a chartered accountant, was a senior manager with one of Canada's major accounting firms. Mr. MacDonald has been Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of Erdene since March 2003. Mr. MacDonald was appointed Vice-President Business Strategy of Erdene in 2007. Mr. MacDonald will provide management and other services to APM pursuant to the management arrangements between Erdene and APM.

 
Philip S. Martin, Chairman and Director

Mr. Martin is an independent consultant who previously served on the boards of Energy Metals and Southern Platinum and is a director of Bear Lake Gold Ltd., Rubicon Minerals Corporation, Nevoro Inc., Aura Minerals Inc. and NiCo Mining Limited. He holds a B.Sc. degree in mining engineering and an MBA. He has a broad range of experience in the mining industry as well as in mining finance and research. Philip worked with Gordon Capital Corporation in Toronto in research and investment banking specializing in the mining sector. Since 1998 he has acted as a mining finance consultant for clients in Canada and internationally.

 
Philip L. Webster -- Director

For the past ten years Philip Webster's principal occupation has been as President of Imperial Windsor Group Inc. and Emster Holdings Inc. and as a private investor. From 1984 to 1990 he was an adjunct professor at McGill's School of Architecture. He was a designer with Anderson Architects from 1986 to 1989 and Executive Assistant to the President of Imperial Trust Company from 1979 to 1981. Mr. Webster is presently a director of Erdene and Western Financial Group Inc., both TSX listed, and Imperial Windsor Group Inc., Autoparc Stanley, Webridge Donnaconna and Emster Holdings Inc., all private companies. He is a Trustee of the R. Howard Webster Foundation, the Zellers Family Foundation, the Constance Lethbridge Foundation, the Lucas Foundation and the Red and White Foundation. He is a Trustee and past Chair of Stanstead College, on the board of the Atwater Library and Computer Centre, a member of the Canadian Centre for Architecture's Development Committee, and the Corporation of Bishop's University and sits on various committees of Princeton University. He was previously the Chairman of the Site Selection Committee of the McGill University Hospital Centre; the Treasurer, Building Committee Chairman and Foundation member for the Montreal Association for the Blind and Chairman of the World Foundation of Haemophilia. He has an A.B. (Hon.) degree from Princeton University and a Master of Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard.

 
J.C. (Chris) Cowan - Director

Mr. Cowan, MSc (Geology), P. Eng. (Ontario), is a minerals consultant providing services to exploration and mining companies world-wide since 1990. Prior to that, he spent 28 years with Falconbridge Limited in a variety of senior management and board positions. Mr. Cowan has also been responsible for technical direction of Falconbridge's world-wide exploration as well as activities exploration manager in Southeast Asia and Chief Geologist for Sudbury Operations. Mr. Cowan has been a director of Erdene and was appointed Vice-President (Asia) of Erdene in June 2006. Mr. Cowan is a Managing Director of Erdene Mongol XXK, Erdene Energy XXK, and Anian Resources XXK, wholly-owned subsidiaries of Erdene. Mr. Cowan has served as a director for a number of publicly listed companies, including Unigold Inc. (2003-2006) and Preston Resources Inc. (1997-2001).