The Board of Strategic Minerals plc announced the appointments of Mr. Julien Francis McInally and Mr. Lyle Curtis Hobbs as Directors of the Company with immediate effect. Julien, an Australian national based in Brisbane, will assume executive responsibility for the company's interests in Australia. Lyle, based in Utah, USA, will assume executive responsibility for the company's interests and operations in the North America.

Julien McInally CPA, MBA 42, is a CFO/Company Secretary with over 15 years of resource industry experience with public listed companies on the TSX, AIM and ASX stock exchanges. Lyle Hobbs P.Eng., MBA 49, is a mining engineer with significant operational and project experience. Currently Lyle is the VP Business Development, North America for RCT.

The company also announced that Peter Stephens and David Anderson have resigned as directors, but that David Anderson will remain with the company.