Chairman, Professor Conroy, and his colleagues, have a long and outstanding record of success in the natural resources industry. Their discovery and development of the Galmoy zinc ore bodies led to the revival of the Irish base metal industry and to Ireland becoming an international zinc province.

Professor Conroy and his colleagues also have previous experience in gold through the Stoneboy consortium, an exploration group which discovered the Pogo gold deposit in Alaska, now in production as a world class gold mine.

Professor Conroy has long held the view that significant potential for gold existed in Ireland and that in Finland, which on joining the EU opened it borders to international exploration companies, there were major opportunities in gold, diamonds and other minerals.

Professor Conroy and his colleagues established Conroy Diamonds and Gold plc to explore these opportunities. The Company’s strategy has been to achieve its objectives by means of an exploration approach based on a highly focused and cost effective methodology.

This strategy has resulted in the discovery of two new district-scale gold trends in the Longford - Down Massif in Ireland, a 65km (40 mile) gold trend along the Orlock Bridge Fault Zone and a 24km (15 mile) gold trend along the Skullmartin Fault Zone, on which it is targeting multi-million ounce gold discoveries.

Both companies are listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange.