Mining leader joins PwC’s Mining Centre of Excellence in Canada

July 7, 2009 — PricewaterhouseCoopers is pleased to announce that Normand Champigny has joined the firm's Mining Centre of Excellence in Canada. Normand is a geological engineer with 30 years of international experience in the mining industry, who has worked with leading consulting organizations in Canada and internationally on a wide range of mining projects.

In addition, Normand is a Director of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada, Vice President of the Fonds Restor-Action Nunavik and a member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec, of the Professional Engineers of Ontario and of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia.

"Normand brings a wealth of experience to the firm's mining practice both in Canada and globally," says Paul Murphy, leader of the PwC Canada mining practice. "PwC in Canada was recently named the Centre of Excellence in mining for the Western Hemisphere. With Normand we will share leading practices across our network and be the hub for information exchange for the industry. The mining team will continue to support PwC's overall objectives of maintaining excellence in client service."

In Canada, and around the world, PwC's applies industry, accounting, taxation and operations knowledge to help mining explorers, producers and related service providers achieve sustained growth.

We offer mining companies a broad range of business and financial services. Our professionals also devise specific solutions to help companies confront the most challenging industry issues including:

• Adapting to new accounting developments
• Responding to Securities Exchange Commission issues
• Benefiting from consolidation in the industry
• Meeting new corporate governance requirements
• Developing effective hedging strategies
• Navigating the Canadian mineral taxation regime

Well-known mining industry thought leadership from PwC such as MINE, Junior Mine (TSX-V), and the annual Gold Price survey are all found at www.pwc.com/ca/mining.

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