Golden Band Resources Inc. announced that, effective April 23, 2012, Matthew Conklin, B.Eng., B.Geo., has been appointed Vice President Operations of the company. Most recently Matt spent more than two years working as the Senior Mine Advisor to the Minister of Mines in Kabul, Afghanistan, under a contract through the United States Government. In that capacity he played a significant role in promoting the development of a major copper project and was instrumental in packaging and promoting for tender a huge iron ore deposit with expected investment of over $14 billion.