Solution Mining Leadership Team

	Max Ramey, PE Position: VP, Solution Mining Potash One's Solution Mining Team is led by Mr. Max Ramey, a registered professional engineer with over 23 years experience in the solution mining industry. Before joining Potash One, Mr. Ramey held the position of Principal Advisor at Rio Tinto, where he was responsible for providing engineering, permitting, drilling, and operations support for Potasio Rio Colorado potash solution mining project in the Mendoza Province of Argentina. Mr. Ramey's solution mining experience started in 1985, with Pennzoil Sulphur Company. From 1985 to 1997, Mr. Ramey occupied progressive positions at the Culberson Frasch sulphur mine and was Operations Manager from 1995 -- 1997. In 1997, Mr. Ramey joined American Soda, LLP. as the Manager of Mining Operations. At American Soda, Max participated in the green field development of a 1.5 million ton per year sodium bi-carbonate solution mining operation located in western Colorado. He was responsible for the resource confirmation drilling, the solution mining pilot program, the well and wellfield design, the commercial wellfield drilling program, and ultimately managed the American Soda commercial solution mining start up and operation.
	Doug Ruse, P.Eng. P.Geo Cavern Engineering Mr. Ruse is a leading expert in solution mining with 40+ years of solution mining and waste disposal well and solution mining cavern design experience including pioneering Canadian potash solution mining techniques.
	Michael Hardy, Ph.D, PE Agapito Associates Dr. Hardy is a leading expert in the geology and geo-mechanical design of solution mining caverns. Dr. Hardy has extensive experience in designing solution mining caverns in salt, potash, trona, and nahcolite. Dr. Hardy is a co-author of Potash One's 2007 NI 43-101 Technical Report and will continue his role with Potash One on the Solution Mining Leadership Team.
	Norbert Grueschow NG Consulting Based in Germany, Mr. Grueschow is a leading expert in potash solution mining and brine processing. Mr. Grueschow has extensive experience in dissolution kinetics of rock salt, sylvinite, carnallite and trona and dissolution modeling. Mr. Grueschow will model the dissolution kinetics of the Legacy potash resource facilitating the estimation of optimum cavern temperature and subsequent cavern production rates.
	Steve Halabura, P.Geo North Rim Exploration Ltd. Mr. Halabura is a leading expert in the geology of the Saskatchewan Prairie Evaporite Formation and has 20+ years of potash geology experience and provides on-going geological oversight and consulting to the team. Mr. Halabura is also a co-author of Potash One's 2007 NI 43-101 Technical Report and will continue his role with Potash One on the Solution Mining Leadership Team.
	Processing Leadership Team Potash One assembled a world-class Process Leadership Team to provide the basic design of the evaporation / crystallization potash production process and select specific technologies.
	Mike Ferguson, P.Eng Position: VP, Projects Mike Ferguson is a professional engineer and senior project manager with significant experience in the Saskatchewan Uranium and Potash industries. Mr. Ferguson's potash experience started in 1984 working in an underground potash mining operation, continuing through maintenance engineering work in a potash mill and on to engineering design and project delivery. He has worked for all the major potash producers in Saskatchewan including Mosaic, Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan and Agrium. Mr. Ferguson also led projects overseas in the Middle East and south-east Asia. Most recently Mr. Ferguson served as a General Manager for Wardrop Engineering, and Operations Manager with AMEC prior to that. He earned his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan and Graduate Certificate in Project Management from Pennsylvania State University. Consisting of respected experts in the field, the Process Leadership Team is led by Mike Ferguson in conjunction with local experts which include:
	John S. McEwan, P.E. Position: VP Solution Processing John McEwan is a registered professional engineer with a B.S. and M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering. His +30 years experience in the chemical processing industry includes solution mining from pilot plant to commercial operation. Mr. McEwan's various roles have included process, project, and research engineering, and production and technical management. Prior to joining Potash One, Mr. McEwan was the principal Process Engineer for Rio Tinto, where he was responsible for process and project engineering duties for feasibility studies and recovery of potash from Rio Tinto's deposits in Argentina and Canada; these projects were later sold to Vale in January 2009 for $850M USD. Mr. McEwan was additionally responsible for the detailed design, construction and start-up of American Soda LLP's 1.3 million tonne/year green field $350M solution mine/chemical plant system for the production of sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate and CO2 recovery in Colorado. As American Soda LLP's Technical Manager, Mr. McEwan supervised the technical department's project engineering, plant efficiency calculations, process and product quality trouble shooting, and new project development.
	Erika Ritchie, M.Eng., P. Eng Position: VP Environment and Regulatory Affairs Erika Ritchie is a registered professional engineer with a B.S. and M.Eng in environmental engineering. She brings over 20 years experience in environmental engineering and management, including her most recent responsibility as Program Manager, Environmental Support and Senior Environmental Specialist for Cameco Corporation ("Cameco"). Her experience at Cameco encompassed managing and leading environmental assessment projects, including responsibility for budgeting, scheduling, technical assessment and documentation. As a Senior Environmental Specialist, Ms. Ritchie revised and implemented corporate level environmental policy and participated in the implementation of an Environmental Management Program (EMP). Ms. Ritchie has additionally worked in a Project Management role with Environmental Consultants where she was responsible for conducting Environmental Assessments and interacting with regulators.
	Carlos Perucca, P.Eng. Process Consultant Mr. Perucca has 15+ years of experience in potash processing, including early work at the Potasio Rio Colorado project in Argentina in the 1990's. (now owned and being developed by Rio Tinto). In Argentina, Carlos participated in the original solution mining pilot test, solar evaporation pond and process engineering designs. Since that time, Carlos has been involved in process design at most Saskatchewan potash producing properties, including extensive work in the modifications of the existing crystallization circuits in the various Saskatchewan mills. Carlos will perform the overall process plant modeling and create the mass and energy balances for Legacy.

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