Minerva Minerals Limited announced the appointment of Messrs. Tom MacNeill, Dean Nawata and Andrew Davidson to the board of directors, and the resignations of Messrs. James Fairbairn, David Jenkins and Brian Jennings from the board of directors and Johnny Oliveira as the company's chief financial officer and secretary.

Mr. Tom MacNeill is a third generation resource developer with over 25 years of direct experience in resource investment and corporate finance, having extensive connections in Canada and internationally. Mr. Dean Nawata is a junior resource finance professional with over 18 years of public market experience, nine of which were spent as a licensed stockbroker focusing on the financing of junior mining and oil/gas projects with Nesbitt Burns, Research Capital Corporation and Raymond James. Mr. Andrew Davidson, a graduate of the University of Calgary, is a Chartered Accountant with extensive experience in finance and corporate structuring in the junior resource industry.

Mr. Davidson is currently the Chief Financial Officer of FNR, Gespeg Copper Resources Inc., Olympic Resources Ltd. and Prima Fluorspar Corp.