Nortec Minerals Corp. announce that it has appointed P. Mark Smith as a director of the Company. The current board of the Company now consists of four (4) directors, namely: Derrick Weyrauch, Michael Malana, Carlos Jaramillo and P. Mark Smith. Mr. Smith has more than 40 years of experience in the mining and exploration industry with expertise ranging from exploration, mining, research, advising, and arranging financings. Mr. Smith started his
career as a geologist in the industry and throughout his career became a Senior Mining Analyst and later a Managing Director Investment Banker. He spent 20 years working for several mining companies including Cominco, and the Mineral Deposits Section of the Ontario Geological Survey before
transitioning into the brokerage industry in 1997. For the next 11 years he worked as a mining analyst with Marleau-Lemire, C.M. Oliver, First Associates, and Dundee Securities, specializing in gold. Over the next decade Mr. Smith was an Investment Banker with Dundee Securities, Stifel Nicolas, and M Partners where he provided financial, technical, marketing, general corporate, and strategic advice as well as arranged financing for private and public companies in the mining and exploration sector. From the mid 1990's Mr. Smith served on the PDAC technical committee responsible for the highly successful PDAC convention in Toronto, Canada. In 2001 and 2002 he was Chairman of the convention, and remained as a Director of the PDAC until 2005. Mr. Smith has B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in Earth Science from the University of Waterloo. Mr. Smith is currently the Executive Chairman of Cabral Gold
Inc.