Sanatana Resources Inc. appointed Ian Smith to the Company’s board of directors. He has a broad range of underground and open pit operating experience. Most importantly for Sanatana, Mr. Smith was Mine Superintendent and Chief Mining Engineer at the 90,000 tpd Bougainville Copper mine in Papua New Guinea, located to the northwest of Sanatana’s recently acquired Tirua project. Mr. Smith managed the startup of the 72,000tpd La Caridad open pit copper mine in Sonora, Mexico and as president and CEO, engineered and constructed a 2,500 tpd (70,000 opy) CIL gold project in Uruguay. As president and CEO of bcMetals Corp., he engineered the 30,000tpd Red Chris copper/gold porphyry project for development in northwest BC prior to it being acquired by Imperial Metals Corp.