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BRYAN TROTTIER – Advisor

Mr. Bryan Trottier is an active member of the Board of Advisors, and provides expertise and advice with respect to the Company’s partnership with the Timiskaming First Nation. Mr. Trottier acts as corporate spokesperson on behalf of the Company and its historic diamond exploration agreement with the Timiskaming First Nation. Mr. Trottier is the recipient of the National Aboriginal Achievement Award, awarded in 1999 for his outstanding contributions to Aboriginal communities by promoting education, motivation and economic development. Mr. Trottier is a native of Val Marie, Saskatchewan and has been honored numerous times throughout his career. During his hockey career Mr. Trottier was Rookie of the Year winner in 1976 and is the recipient of 7 Stanley Cup Championships. In 1997, Mr. Trottier was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in recognition of his tremendous achievements in the game of hockey and has received numerous awards for outstanding community services.

The Board of Directors is very pleased to work with Mr. Trottier in achieving economic and sustainable development for future generations through mineral exploration success in the Timiskaming and Temagami regions of northeastern Ontario and northwestern Quebec.

BARRY W. PHILLIPS, F.I.C.B. – Advisor
Mr. Phillips acts a financial advisor to the Board of Directors. Mr. Phillips has over 50 years experience in international banking and financial expertise. Over the span of his career with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), Mr. Phillips served in several senior positions with the banks Canadian and International Division including being the Senior Area Administrator for the Trinidad and Tobago operations and the Senior Manager overseeing the banks offshore operations and services in the Cayman Islands. Mr. Phillips started his own financial consulting practice in 1981 specializing in raising venture capital for Canadian corporations and providing CFO related services to a range of corporations.

DR. HARRISON COOKENBOO, P.Geol. – Advisor
Dr. Harrison Cookenboo, Senior Associate Geologist with Watts, Griffis and McOuat Limited, consulting geologists and engineers, as a source of technical advice to the Board. Dr. Cookenboo has over 25 years of experience in the mineral industry with a solid background in exploring for diamonds, exploration planning and proprietary diamond property evaluations in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Northwest Territory, Nunavut Territory, Brazil, Congo and the United States. Dr. Cookenboo was responsible for geological evaluations of bulk samples of 2 to 10,000 tonnes extracted from promising kimberlites and leading to successful pre-feasibility studies. Dr. Cookenboo is a graduate from Duke University in the United States and obtained both a Masters and Ph.D. Degree in Geology from the University of British Columbia. Since 2002, Dr. Cookenboo has acted as a consulting geologist on diamond exploration and evaluation programs primarily for Brazilian Diamonds Ltd. in Minas Gerais, Brazil and for the Company on its properties in Ontario and Quebec. Dr. Cookenboo is a director of Russian Diamonds PLC.

MR. JACK MARR, M. Sc. P.Geo. – Advisor
Mr. Jack Marr will be a source of technical advice having completed an Honours Degree in Geology in St. Andrews, Scotland and followed by a Masters Degree in Earth Science from the University of Manitoba. After a brief spell with Anaconda in Quebec, he worked at Esso Minerals in Vancouver and in Perth, Western Australia, at increasing levels of responsibility, ending as Western District Supervisor in Canada. After Esso Minerals disbanded, he consulted for several years before joining Kennecott as Western Regional Manager in 1990 were he focused on Western Canadian base metal projects and the start of diamond operations in the Arctic which included the early days of the Diavik discovery. Since 1993, he has worked in the junior mining sector and co-founded and is a director of Geodex Minerals Ltd. He has worked with Geodex Minerals, in a variety of capacities all over the world, including diamond exploration in Manitoba. His current work is focused in New Brunswick on a bulk-tonnage tungsten-molybdenum discovery which has advanced to the engineering and development stages in 2007. He is a director of Capstone Mining Corp.

DR. JOHN B. GAMMON, – Advisor
Dr. John B. Gammon is a source of both technical and corporate advice. John holds a B.Sc. (honours) degree in Geology from the University of Leicester, UK, and a Ph.D in Geology from Durham University, UK. After graduation, John conducted postdoctoral research at the Universities of California and Princeton as the recipient of a Senor Visiting Fulbright Fellowship. For the next twenty years he was employed in successively senior positions in mineral exploration management with among other companies, Falconbridge. John spent seventeen years with the Government of Ontario, Canada, in the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, the first two as Director, Mineral Development and Lands Branch and then as Assistant Deputy Minister, Mines and Mineral Division. He was senior advisor on mining issues to five successive governments. After retiring from government in 2005, John established the “Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation” at Laurentian University. He is also the Founder of the World Mines Ministries Forums, Toronto. He currently sits on the Boards of Gold Summit Mines, Sherwood Cooper Corporation and Strait Gold Corporation. In appreciation for services to mining and Northern Ontario, John was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Laurentian University in 2006.