Aura Minerals Inc. - Officers

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	Patrick Downey Position: President, Chief Executive Officer and Director Mr. Downey was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Aura Minerals Inc. on April 4, 2007 bringing with him over 25 years of international experience in the resource industry. Mr. Downey was President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Viceroy Exploration Ltd. prior to its acquisition by Yamana Gold Inc. in 2006 for $600 million. Prior to that, he was President of Consolidated Trillion Resources Ltd. and Oliver Gold Corporation, where he negotiated the successful merger to form Canico Resource Corp., which was purchased in 2006 by CVRD for over $800 million. He has held senior engineering positions at several large-scale gold mining operations and has also held operating positions at several mining projects for Anglo American Corporation in South Africa. Mr. Downey is also a director of a number of other resource companies.

	Tony George Position: Chief Operating Officer Mr. George is a mining engineer with over 25 years in the industry. He worked for De Beers in South Africa and Namibia in various production and technical positions over a 10-year period before moving to Canada in 1993. Mr. George has worked for the Iron Ore Company of Canada in northern Labrador as the Superintendent of Technical Services and subsequently spent 7 years as a consulting mining engineer working on more than 40 projects in over 15 countries. Prior to joining Aura Minerals in June 2007, Mr. George spent over 4 years as the Mine Manager of the Victor Project guiding the project through the feasibility, permitting and construction phases where his primary responsibility was the development of operational capability for the Victor Mine.

	Fausto Taddei Position: Chief Financial Officer Mr. Taddei was previously CFO of Western Canadian Coal Corp. for three years where he was instrumental in the completion of various equity, convertible debenture, project debt and equipment lease financings aggregating more than $400 million. Mr. Taddei is a Chartered Accountant and, for the past 20 years, has held senior accounting and finance roles in public companies primarily in the natural resource sector.

	Michele Jones Position: Vice-President, Corporate Affairs Ms. Jones has worked in the corporate and administrative areas of the mining industry for over 20 years and most recently held the position of Corporate Secretary with Viceroy Exploration Ltd., prior to its acquisition by Yamana Gold Inc.

	Meghan Lewis Position: Vice-President, Corporate Development Ms. Lewis has over 12 years of experience in the mining sector, the last six of which have been with Dundee group of companies, first as a mining analyst with Dundee Securities Corporation, then as Senior Mining Analyst for Dundee Resources Limited where she was responsible for financial modeling, commodity evaluation, project evaluation and transaction structuring. Prior to that, Ms. Lewis worked as an exploration geologist on several projects in North and South America.

	Alan Hitchborn Position: Vice-President, Exploration Mr. Hitchborn has a B.Sc. degree in Geology and has over 25 years experience in both operations and exploration. He spent over 10 years with Placer Dome Inc. as Chief Geologist at one of their U.S. operations and as Senior Geologist in their Resource Estimation Group, where he worked on several international projects. For the past 10 years, Mr. Hitchborn has worked in the junior exploration sector where he was instrumental in the acquisition and development of a large gold/silver deposit in Mexico.

	Deepk Hundal Position: In-house Counsel and Corporate Secretary Mr. Hundal has worked as a lawyer in the areas of corporate, commercial, securities and mining law and most recently held the position of Associate with Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP, a large national Canadian law firm.