Meridian Mining UK S has formed an Advisory Board to counsel the Company's Executive Management and Corporate Board of Directors in matters related to continuing exploration and development of its Cabaçal Copper-Gold VMS project in Mato Grosso Brazil. Six preeminent mining executives have accepted to be appointees to the Advisory Board bringing considerable depth of experience not only at the Project level but in their respective fields. The Advisory Board Members are: Mr. Afonso Manoel de Figueiredo, a geologist with over 50 years of international and Brazilian experience and former Regional Exploration Manager for BP Minerals Guaporé Project which discovered the Cabaçal copper-gold deposit; Mr. Grant "Rocky" Osborne, a geologist with over 40 years of international and Brazilian experience and the former Underground-Mine and Exploration geologist with BP Minerals' Cabaçal project; Mr. Mike Ounpuu, a Geological Engineer with over 40 years of industry leading experience and is considered an expert at base and precious metal flotation and processing; Dr. Phillip Mackey, a metallurgist and with over 50 years of industry leading experience an expert in his field and an author of numerous technical papers; Mr. Gilson Teixeira, a geologist with over 40 years of experience and formerly the Chief Geologist of the Cabaçal Mine with BP Minerals until its closure by Rio Tinto; and Dr. John Waghorn, A geologist with 54 years of international experience including working for Billiton in Brazil, southern Africa and Europe and Rio Tinto in South America. The members of the Advisory Board present to the Company a suite of Brazilian and or international, technical knowledge and experience, combined with actual operational experience of the former Cabaçal Gold mine and regional exploration operations by BP Minerals and Rio Tinto.