MDN Inc. management team will be restructured to support the business plan. Serge Bureau, who currently acts as President and Chief Executive Officer for both MDN and Crevier Minerals Inc., will relinquish the presidency of MDN February 1, 2013, but retains the presidency of CMI and will focus solely on CMI's development. His goals will be to: Structure a private financing for CMI to complete the Crevier Project feasibility study currently underway; Once the feasibility study is completed, set up the technical team required to develop the project; and Manage and coordinate an initial public offering of MCI, if possible.

Serge Bureau will report to the MCI Board of Directors, which consists of three representatives of MDN and two of IAMGOLD. As the president of MCI, a MDN-controlled subsidiary, Mr. Bureau will remain a director of MDN due to his technical experience and expertise required to follow through with the completion of the feasibility study on the Crevier project. As of February 1, 2013, Marc Boisvert, Ing currently Vice President, Exploration of MDN, will become the President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of MDN.

Marc has over 25 years experience in mineral exploration, 12 of which spent in Tanzania, and he has an excellent understanding of the country's geological and operational setting. Before joining MDN, Marc gained solid experience with major international mining companies like Barrick Gold, Noranda and Inmet. His mandate will be to oversee the general management of MDN and the administration of all activities in Tanzania.

He will also be responsible for finding strategic partners or external funding needed to develop exploration projects properly. He will focus his efforts on the Ikungu, Ikungu East, Nikonga and Isambara projects, which consider to be best gold assets in Tanzania. Marc Boisvert will be supported in his new role by a team of experienced Tanzanian geologists and technicians assigned exclusively to exploration in Tanzania, as well as by Yves Therrien, MDN's Chief Financial Officer.