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Bibiani under mining tricks

Wed, 1 Dec 2010 Source: Asa, Ken

Over $20,000,000 is owed to Bibiani creditors since the demise of Central African

Gold. In a letter to creditors, Noble Mineral Resources (“Noble”) promised to begin

making payments of up to 100% of the outstanding invoices of certain Bibiani

creditors upon the acquisition of Central African Gold. In April 2010, Noble

announced the acquisition yet no Bibiani creditors have been paid.

Noble also announced spending of up to $10,000,000 on Plant refurbishment at the

mine with total refurbishment time to be 44 weeks. With more than 24 weeks having

expired, there is no evidence of plant refurbishment activity. According to sources

near the Bibiani mine, 3 of Noble’s Ghanaian representatives have quit and left due

to the fact they have limited funding.

Now that it is time to pay the creditors back and Noble in less that 2 months from

their promise to begin production, Noble’s Alex Taylor resigned as Executive Finance

Director, raising even more rumours amongst the mining community in Ghana that Noble

will be bankrupt like Central African Gold was 2 years ago.

What makes matters worse for Noble is the Chief of Bibiani has requested the mining

license at Bibiani be subject to re-entry and was quoted as saying ” I formally

request that the CAG mining license be subject to re-entry and that a Corporation of

our choice be the company that aggressively restarts mining operations so that the

people of Bibiani benefit from the management of our mineral endowment.”

The prospects for Noble appear weak particularly since many protests by the people

of Bibiani have commenced while Noble continues to put lies out in their press

releases from the Australian Stock Exchange saying all is fine locally here in

Ghana.

With another company meeting the worthiness standards as set out in Ghana’s mining

policy, social licenses will not be granted to Noble by the people of Bibiani.

We wrote to you previously regarding Noble Mineral Resources (Noble) and the

announcement that Noble has controlling interest in Central African Gold. I objected

to Noble entering our land. As previously stated, I was omitted from any approval

process and there is no evidence the people of our District will benefit in any way.

Ghana’s mining policy ensures “that Ghana’s mineral endowment is managed on a

sustainable economic, social and environmental basis and that there is an equitable

sharing of the financial and developmental benefits of mining between any company

and all Ghanaian stakeholders”. There is a lot of confusing information provided in

Noble’s press releases yet we still have many Ghanaians who are unpaid creditors of

Noble (CAG). We offer the following summary of dates and press releases from Noble:

17-12-2009 Letter to Creditors This date is

important because an agreement

with creditors is a critical condition of the

acquisition

04-06-2010 capital raise of $36.8M announced

30-06-2010 Audited Financials show $36M cash

27-07-2010 Noble announces Bibiani Acquisition NOBLE also announces that

“the creditors of

CAGGL being paid as agreed”. Which Creditors

got paid? Not the

Bibiani creditors!

30-09-2010 Noble announces Quarterly results on 29-10-2010 Noble

announced their quarterly

results and they show only $26M in cash –

we

assume $9M went to pay creditors

– no Bibiani creditors were paid.

10-11-2010 Alan Taylor resigns as Executive

Finance Driector

10-11-2010 Noble announces $30M raise $30M for a drilling

program and has nothing to

do with the acquisition of CAG nor the operation

of the mine. Their stock will become more liquid

but no benefit to the people of

Bibiani.

Here is what we know:

· Noble did get “a settlement agreement” with creditors which was a

Condition Precedent to acquisition

· Noble has not paid anything into the local economy or its creditors

· Noble’s “plan” to get back to operations is way behind schedule and in

fact there are no Noble employees at Bibiani

· Noble’s new priority seems to be to raise $30M and drill more holes –

which will help |Nobles stock price but will do nothing for economic

sustainability.

· Noble’s chief financial officer has quit

· Noble is not welcome on the Chiefs land

· The Chief has demanded re-entry.

Nothing in the press releases from Noble indicates their intent for sustainable

economic, social and environmental basis and that there is an equitable sharing of

the financial and developmental benefits of mining.

We have a public company on the Australian Stock Exchange that continues to exploit

the Ghanaian people and our mineral resources in the form of press releases that

serves to increase their stock price and stock liquidity.

We demand re-entry.

NANA KODOM 11

BIBIANIHENE

Columnist: Asa, Ken