Geopacific Resources Limited announced that Mr. Michael Brook, Mr. Richard Clayton and Mr. Hansjoerg Plaggemars have been appointed as Non-executive Directors and join Chairman, Mr. Andrew Bantock on the Company's Board. Mr. Michael (Mike) Brook is a mining professional with hands-on global mining industry experience, providing a deep appreciation of mining investment, development and governance. Mike's previous roles have seen him lead the technical and commercial review and assessment of mining and minerals processing projects and companies from an investment perspective, across multiple jurisdictions and commodities, from early-stage exploration through to production.

Mike was previously Chairman & Manager of three successful African focused resources investment funds. Over 16 years he was responsible for investment selection methodology and management of the funds, and served on multiple public and private investee company boards. Prior to his time in mining investment management, Mike spent eight years with a prominent stock broking firm as a mining equities analyst, focussing on ASX listed junior miners, as well as larger capitalisation companies in the industrial minerals and diamonds sectors.

Mr. Richard Clayton has over 20 years of mining sector experience covering technical, advisory, and financial services roles. Richard was previously at Investec Bank plc, where he had leadership responsibility as Australia desk head within Investec's Global Resources team and where he held ultimate responsibility for all technical due diligence assessments across the resources sector for Investec. Prior to Investec, Richard was a Principal Consultant at SRK Consulting, specialising in mineral resource estimation and project evaluation.

He headed up the Sydney Geology team and was a member of the Practice Leadership Group at the firm. In this role Richard managed multi-disciplinary due diligence and valuation teams delivering resource estimation and reviews to a range of clients internationally, including Competent Person sign-off. Richard currently operates a consultancy practice, providing advisory services to mining companies and financiers, including study management, business development and due diligence reviews.

Mr. Hansjoerg Plaggemars has been appointed as a representative of the Delphi Unternehmensberatung Group1, Geopacific's largest shareholder. Hansjoerg is an experienced company director with a strong background in corporate finance, corporate strategy and governance. Having previously operated as a senior Mergers and Acquisitions advisor at a global professional services firm, Hansjoerg moved into commerce where he has served on the Board of Directors of many listed and unlisted companies, in a variety of industries; including mining, agriculture, shipping, construction and investments.

Mr. Plaggemars has qualifications in Business Administration and is fluent in English and German. Mr. Ian Murray and Mr. Colin Gilligan have resigned from the Board of Geopacific.