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Cockatoo Coal Limited
ABN 13 112 682 158

Directors
Norman A. Seckold (Chairman)
Mark H. Lochtenberg (Managing Director)
Peter J. Nightingale (Chief Financial Officer)
J. Gillis Broinowski
Lindsay R. Flint
Robert A. Yeates

Company Secretary
Peter J. Nightingale

Principal and Registered Office
Level 8, 261 George Street
Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
Phone: +61-2 9247 8213
Fax: +61-2 9247 3932
Email: info@cockatoocoal.com.au
Website: www.cockatoocoal.com.au

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Board of Directors

Norman Alfred Seckold, Chairman
Director since 28 January 2005

Norman Seckold graduated with a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Sydney in 1970. He has spent more than 20 years in the full time management of natural resource companies, both in Australia and overseas. Mr Seckold has been the Chairman of a number of publicly listed companies including Moruya Gold Mines (1983) NL, which acquired the Golden Reward heap leach gold deposit in South Dakota, USA, Pangea Resources Limited, which acquired and developed the Pauper's Dream gold mine in Montana, USA, Timberline Minerals, Inc. which acquired and completed a feasibility study for the development of the MacArthur copper deposit in Nevada, USA, Perseverance Corporation Limited, which discovered and developed the Nagambie gold mine in Victoria, Valdora Minerals NL, which developed the Rustler's Roost gold mine in the Northern Territory and the Ballarat East Gold Mine in Victoria, Viking Gold Corporation, which discovered a high grade gold deposit in northern Sweden and Mogul Mining NL, which drilled out the Magistral and Ocampo gold deposits in Mexico. Mr Seckold is currently Chairman of Australian public
listed companies Bolnisi Gold NL, Kings Minerals NL and Planet Gas Limited and Canadian public listed company Palmarejo Gold Corporation. Bolnisi Gold NL, through its controlled entity Palmarejo Gold Corporation, has discovered a multi million ounce resource and is nearing development of its Palmarejo gold-silver project in Mexico. Bolnisi Gold NL is also exploring two other Mexican gold-silver projects and operates a heap leach gold project in ex-Soviet Georgia. Kings Minerals NL is exploring for precious and base metals in Mexico and Planet Gas Limited is a coalbed methane exploration and development and production company operating in Australia and the USA.

Mark Hamish Lochtenberg, Managing Director
Director since 28 January 2005

Mark Lochtenberg graduated with a Bachelor of Law (Hons) degree from Liverpool University, U.K. and has been actively involved in the coal industry for 20 years. Mr Lochtenberg was the co-head of Glencore International AG’s world wide coal division following his heading up of the coal trading desk of Glencore's Australian coal trading operations. During that time, he was actively involved in purchasing, managing and aggregating the coal project portfolio which became Xstrata Coal. Prior to this Mr Lochtenberg had established a coal 'swaps' market for Bain Refco (Deutsche Bank) after having served as coal marketing manager for Peko Wallsend Limited.

Peter James Nightingale, Director, Chief Financial
Officer and Company Secretary
Director since 28 January 2005

Peter Nightingale graduated with a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Sydney and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. He has worked as a chartered accountant in both Australia and the USA. Mr Nightingale has, for the past 17 years, been a director or company secretary of a number of private and publicly listed companies in Australia, the USA and Europe including Pangea Resources Limited, Timberline Minerals Inc., Perseverance Corporation Limited, Valdora Minerals NL, Bolnisi Gold NL, Biotron Limited, ETT Limited and IMD Group Limited. Mr. Nightingale has been responsible for the financial control, administration, secretarial and in-house legal functions of these companies. Peter is currently a director and CFO of Bolnisi Gold NL and Planet Gas Limited.

John Gillis Broinowski, Non-executive Director
Director since 25 July 2005

Gillis Broinowski is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and is currently a director of the NSW Division of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is also currently a director, and former President, of Australian Business Limited and the Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife. Mr Broinowski has had in excess of 25 year's experience in the resources industry and is a former director of Peko Wallsend Operations Limited, Newcastle Wallsend Coal Co. Limited, Robe River Limited and former executive Chairman of Simsmetal Limited.

Lindsay Ross Flint, Non-executive Director
Director since 25 July 2005

Lindsay Flint is a graduate of the University of Queensland, completing a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) in 1967 and a PhD in 1971. He began his career in engineering research in the field of mineral processing and subsequently joined the coal industry with technical and then marketing roles. For more than 20 years, Dr Flint has carried various portfolios of responsibilities in Shell’s international coal business working in Australia and the UK. These provided a broad exposure to coal sourcing and transportation from Australia, South Africa, China, Canada and the Americas and to markets in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. As General Manager Marketing, he was responsible for all of Shell Coal’s global sales and distribution until Shell divested its coal interests to Anglo American in 2000. Dr Flint continued with Anglo Coal Australia as General Manager Marketing for the following two years and has since maintained an active involvement in international coal, working with a major solid fuels trader, SSM Coal B.V.

Robert Ainslie Yeates, Non-executive Director
Director since 25 July 2005

Rob Yeates is a graduate of the University of NSW, completing a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours 1) in 1971 and a PhD in 1977 and then an MBA in 1986 from Newcastle University. He began his career with Peko Wallsend working in a variety of roles including mining engineering, project management, general mine management and marketing. He became General Manager Marketing for Oakbridge Pty Limited in 1989 following a merger with the Peko Wallsend coal businesses and went on to become Managing Director of Oakbridge, which was the largest coal mining company in NSW at that time, operating the Bulga Open Cut, South Bulga, Ellalong, Gretley, Baal Bone and Clarence coal mines. Dr Yeates has gained operating, business development and infrastructure experience as a director of Port Waratah Coal Services (Newcastle Port), Port Kembla Coal Terminal, Great Northern Mining Corporation NL and Cyprus Australia Coal and for the past 8 years has been principal of his own mine management consultancy, providing a full range of technical, management and strategic planning services to the mining industry. Rob Yeates and Associates Pty Ltd has entered into a consultancy agreement with the Company, which may be terminated with one month's written notice, to provide consultancy services to the Company as required from time to time by the Company. These services will be carried out by, amongst others, Robert Yeates.