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Peter Briggs qualified as a registered builder after completing his building diploma in 1967. He worked in the Architectural Division of the WA Public Works Department and graduated as a quantity surveyor in 1968.

During the nickel stock market boom of the late 1960s, he owned a mining and exploration service company which gave him valuable experience in the industry. When he acquired Siberia Nickel Exploration NL in 1973, it marked the beginning of a long involvement in listed public companies. Since then, he has been involved with 30 listed companies with interests including oil and gas production in the USA, exploration and oil and gas drilling in the Middle East and Australia. He was instrumental in bringing into production the Marvel Loch, Pine Creek, Nevoria, Paringa and the Sons of Gwalia gold mines.

In the 1990s, Mr Briggs was the founding member and venture capitalist for the Matilda Bay Brewing Company Limited and, more recently, the successful AIM-listed nickel exploration company, European Nickel Limited.

His passion for motor vehicles saw him establish the York Motor Museum in 1979. The museum later won the Sir David Brand Award for tourism. Recently, he opened the Fremantle Motor Museum as a complementary tourist attraction.

He brings to the Company a wide range of business knowledge and acumen, as well as 30 years of experience in the resource sector.

Mr Goodwin graduated from Curtin University in 1986 with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Geology). He spent 6 years with Western Mining Corporation Ltd in the capacity of mine geologist at the Vatakula Gold Mine in Fiji and later as exploration geologist at the Kambalda Operations. There he was involved in the discovery of the Intrepid, Redoubtable and Santa Anna gold deposits under Lake Lefroy and worked closely with the nickel exploration team. He later joined Resolute Ltd in 1994 as Senior Exploration Geologist spending 5 years in Kalgoorlie managing regional and brownfields exploration for the Chalice, Higginsville, Bullabulling and Bulong projects.

In 1999, Mr Goodwin was appointed Senior Exploration Geologist with Lionore Limited at the Bounty Gold Mine operations where he was responsible for the discovery of several small economic gold deposits.
Over the past 4 years, he has been working as an independent contract geologist specialising in the exploration for nickel sulphides throughout Western Australia. More recently he was appointed Managing Director of Barra Resources Ltd where he has taken charge of the corporate and exploration activities of the company. Recent exploration success has seen Mr Goodwin add significantly to Barra’s market capitalisation over the past 5 months since his appointment.

Mr Goodwin’s strong technical skills developed while working with some of Western Australia’s leading exploration teams, together with hands on mining experience in the Eastern Goldfields and overseas, will provide Westralian Nickel Ltd with a great opportunity to move its project portfolio into production and setting a path towards identifying new projects.

Mr Ray Muskett, a graduate of the School of Mines, Kalgoorlie is an experienced geologist in both mining and exploration. He presently holds board positions in public companies, Falcon Minerals Ltd and Biodiesel Australia Ltd.

He has over twenty five years experience in mineral exploration with a strong emphasis on nickel, gold and gold-copper deposits.

He formulated various concepts and supporting databases on identification of Olympic Dam style ore bodies and other large volcanogenic gold/copper deposits as presently utilised by Falcon Minerals Ltd since November 2001 and is technical director of Falcon Minerals Ltd that has a 30% interest in the Collurabbie Nickel project in W.A.

In other fields of research via laboratory experiments he achieved commercially significant Australian and International patents in organic chemistry. He has worked for a variety of exploration and mining companies including Western Mining, the Kalgoorlie Lake View consortium (Kalgoorlie), Hamersley Exploration and CRA Exploration (diamonds), consulted to various companies including holding management roles in various open pit mining operations of Nevoria Gold Mines and exploration for Newmont and ran a nickel joint venture with Billiton Australia.

He was a consultant to Geographe Resources in 1992 (then named Newmex Exploration) when he acquired ground for Geographe and arranged exploration funding via a joint venture with Samantha Gold that lead to the Chalice gold discovery in September 1993.

Mr George Lee has worked continually in the Mining Industry in Western Australia for the last 35 years, primarily in managing mining tenements for public and private mining companies. He has consulted to both government and industry on everyday tenement maintenance and also more involved tenement administration such as Warden’s Court Plaints, negotiated native title issues and arrange the sale, exploration, option agreements and joint venture agreements of clients’ tenement portfolios.

George has been an executive director of two listed exploration companies and has wide experience in the day to day management and exploration activities of public companies.

George was in charge of exploration at Tuckanarra Minerals when economic gold resources were outlined at Tuckanarrra and Grace Darling. These deposits were later mined. He also introduced the Tuckabianna gold prospect to Tuckanarra Minerals NL where two open cut gold deposits were subsequently mined.

When Exploration Director of Colonial Resources NL he was responsible for introducing the Cuddingwarra Gold Prospect to that company and after extensive exploration several open cut deposits were mined.

In his own right he was responsible for the introduction of the Mt Rankin gold property which was mined by way of two open cuts by Burmine Operations Pty Ltd. He has been involved in exploration for diamonds in the Kimberleys through Diamond Exploration Services and gold in the Murchison and Eastern Goldfields.

As a prospector he has introduced properties to several mining companies which have gone on and listed on the ASX using those properties as the lead properties for the floating of those companies. Companies such as Comet Resources Ltd which used the Mainland Gold Property to float and Golden West Resources Ltd which floated recently using the Channings Gold Property of which George was the registered holder.

George has also had experience in managing alluvial gold Mines in Western Australia and the Philipines.