Stephen Stares, Director – Stephen Stares is a successful business entrepreneur with more than 32 years of experience in mineral exploration. Stephen’s career spans from 1988 were he spent 7 years with Noranda Exploration on such projects as the Hemlo gold mines, Eagle River gold deposit and the Geco and Mattabi base metal camps. The next ten years of Stephen’s career were spent managing the operations of Stares Contracting Corp., a successful mineral exploration services company in Thunder Bay, Ontario. In 2004, Stephen and his brother Michael started Benton Resources where he remains as President and CEO. Since that time he has been directly involved in the start-up many publicly traded companies on the TSX Venture Exchange with the most recent being Clean Air Metals where he secured two high quality copper-nickel-platinum-palladium deposits and assembled a team of professionals to take the company public. Throughout his career, Mr. Stares has discovered several major mineral occurrences in Canada that have been the subject of extensive exploration programs. In March of 2007, Stephen, Michael and Sandy Stares, along with the rest of the Stares, Keats, Crocker and Barrett families, were the proud recipients of the Prospectors and Developers Association (PDAC) Bill Dennis Prospector of the Year Award. This award was given to recognize the families’ contributions to the industry for the past 40 years.