Zinc of Ireland NL announced that Dr. Julian Barnes has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Company. Dr. Barnes is a geologist with 35 years of experience in over 52 countries in a wide variety of commodities and has over 26 years' experience in undertaking bank due diligence studies for the majority of the major resource lending institutions. Dr. Barnes co-founded Resource Service Group in 1986. In 2004, he joined Dundee Precious Metals Inc. and was responsible for their worldwide exploration activities, project acquisition and investment due diligence. Following this, Dr. Barnes was responsible for all technical aspects including exploration, project management, development, and management of Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) studies and due diligence for various companies as a specialist consultant. Dr. Barnes has extensive experience in due diligence studies, company and project reviews for major global resource lending institutions and mining companies located throughout the world. Dr. Barnes is also a Non-Executive Director of Adriatic Metals Limited and Thor Explorations Ltd. Coinciding with Dr. Barnes joining the Board, former Non-Executive Director, Mr. Patrick Corr, has been appointed as Executive Director ­ Corporate/Commercial.