Anthony L. Hannaford, Director of CVMR® (USA) Inc.

Anthony L. Hannaford is a Director of CVMR® (USA) Inc. He has over 35 years experience in the nickel, copper and gold mining and refining industries, encompassing concentrating, smelting, refining and vapour metallurgy.

His experiences encompass:

2004 – Now, Member of the board of Directors of CVMR®, and since 2007 also Metallurgical Advisor to Ivanhoe Nickel and Platinum Ltd.

2002 – 2004 Vice President in charge of expansion, rationalization and consolidation of the two merging companies, Noranda and Falconbridge.

1995 – 2002 Vice President, Metallurgical Technology at Falconbridge, Canada.

1990 – 1995 Director of Metallurgy at Newmont Gold Co. in Denver, Colorado, USA.

1974 – 1990 Chief Metallurgist and Metallurgical Manager at O’Okiep Copper Co in South Africa.

1970 – 1974 Progressively as Refining, Concentrator and smelter plant metallurgist at Trojan Nickel Mine in Rhodesia,.

Tony Hannaford graduated from University of Cape Town with a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, in 1969 he is a Chartered Engineer.

Professional Qualifications:

• Member of the London Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
• Member of the American Institute of Metallurgical Engineers
• Member of the S. African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
• Chartered Engineer

Patents Held:

• The replacement of Portland cement by reverberatory furnace slag in underground backfilling operations.
• The oxygen-enriched roasting with arsenic fixation of refractory gold ores.
• Both of these patents relate to an existing operation and are not merely theoretical exercises