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Mr. [Jonker] is a business executive resident in Vancouver, British Columbia, with more than 20 years of extensive management, accounting and corporate finance experience across five continents, principally in the mining industry. He currently serves as the lead independent director of Mandalay Resources Corporation, a TSX-listed Canadian public gold mining company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario and a non-executive director and chairman of the audit committee of each of Firestone Diamonds Plc, a London, England based public diamond mining company listed on AIM, and Golden Reign Resources Ltd., another Canadian public gold mining company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia listed on the TSX Venture Exchange. Mr. Jonker was previously a director and president of EastCoal Inc. and Canada Coal Inc., two TSX Venture Exchange-listed Canadian coal mining companies headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia and, until its $3.3 billion takeover by Walter Energy Inc., an international coal company, the chief financial officer of Western Coal Corp., another Canadian coal mining company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia whose common shares were listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and AIM. He is a registered Chartered Accountant in British Columbia, England and Wales, as well as South Africa.