Murray Douglas Pollitt

Pollitt & Co., Inc. is an independent, Canadian brokerage firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario with an additional office in Montreal, Quebec. The firm was founded by Murray Pollitt in 1984 and they provide brokerage services to institutional and private clients. Pollitt & Co. is a member of the Toronto Stock Exchange, the Montreal Exchange, the Canadian Investor Protection Fund and the Investment Dealers Association of Canada. Their investment objective is steady, long-term capital appreciation. Pollitt & Co. employs a disciplined approach that begins with a strong macroeconomic view which they use to identify sectors and companies investors may have undervalued.

River Gold Mines Ltd. was created in 1994 to consolidate ownership of the Eagle River property. To date it has produced in excess of 700,000 ounces of gold from three mining projects located near Wawa, Ontario. Despite weak gold markets in the period 1997-2001, River Gold persevered and acquired known gold deposits to provide for future expansion in the Wawa Gold Camp. Going forward it is River Gold's goal to deliver growth and performance to shareholders through optimization of current assets and careful acquisition of further projects