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Krone - Endora at Venetia

Dr. Haggerty is a distinguished research professor and has been recognized as one of the world's leading diamond experts. His extensive knowledge and involvement over four decades in the diamond industry greatly compliments the Company's current growing management team, and enhances their ability to achieve the ongoing acquisition and growth objectives they have set for the Company.

Dr. Haggerty graduated from the Royal School of Mines in Economic Geology in 1964 and received his PhD from the University of London in 1968. This was followed by a three-year post-doctoral Carnegie Fellowship at the Geophysical Laboratory in Washington, D.C., followed by a lengthy tenure at the University of Massachusetts. His most recent post has been Distinguished Research Professor at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, USA. Dr. Haggerty's extensive research has revolved around the Fe-Ti-O system and has ranged from studies of lunar samples and meteorites, to diamonds and the evolution of the middle upper mantle. He was the[a] Principal Investigator for 10 years in the U.S. Apollo and Soviet Luna sample return programs and served on the Lunar Sample Analysis Planning Team. His various and ongoing research projects are vast, as are his past and ongoing field projects in west and southern Africa along with extensions to Brazil, Australia, Syria, Siberia, and China. Dr. Haggerty's ties to South Africa are very strong as he was born in the Witwatersrand Basin of South Africa which is located some 50 km from the bushveld complex and the famous Premier Diamond Mine. He is also the long-time landowner of the property on which yet another famous mine resides, that being the famous Jagersfontein mine, which is located in South Africa's Free State some 110 km south-west of Bloemfontein.

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