TORONTO, April 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Equitable Mining Corp. (EQBM.PK) announces that Peter Howe, a senior and experienced mining consultant and owner has joined the Advisory Board. Peter Howe is a mining engineer who graduated with a BSc at Imperial College and an ARSM at the Royal School of Mines, London, England. He attended schools in England and Australia. He is a registered Professional Engineer of Ontario, and a Fellow of the Canadian and Australian Mining and Metallurgical Societies. Mr. Howe's experience includes management of small gold mines in Zimbabwe, prior to becoming a resident of Canada in 1955. In 1960 he commenced consulting for exploration companies in Canada, and in 1965 founded the firm of ACA Howe International Limited (HI). During the ensuing years HI expanded to offices in Australia, England, Sough Africa and Indonesia. Mr. Howe also founded Howe Exploration and Development Co. Ltd. (HED) to operate as a mine contractor. Their main function was to re-open old mines, also drive tunnels and ramps to facilitate exploration or ore deposits prior to feasibility study. In 1995, Mr. Howe ceased working for HI in the consulting business and turned HED into a publicly-listed company called Diadem Resources Ltd. During his career as a consultant, Mr. Howe was in charge of exploration that resulted in several producing mines including Tantalum Mining Corporation in Canada, the Jabaluka Uranium Mine in Australia, a tin mine in Cornwall, England and three gold producers in Indonesia. Since forming Diadem Resources Ltd. the company has successfully explored and found a diversity of resources in five countries including copper-nickel and zinc in Quebec, Canada, gold in Nicaragua, silver and zinc in Mexico, zinc-lead-silver in Indonesia and in the USA discovered the first rock formation containing diamonds in California. Mr. Howe resigned from Diadem in October 2004. He is currently President of Belitung Limited and owns 55% of the company, which has acquired the Diadem projects in Quebec, Nicaragua, Mexico and Indonesia. Mr. Howe is the chairman of Waseco Resources, listed on the TSV Exchange with uranium projects in Quebec and diamonds in Ontario. This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements can be identified by the lead-in "Looking Forward." These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve significant risks and uncertainties. Actual results may vary materially from those in the forward-looking statements as a result of the effectiveness of management's strategies and decisions, general economic and business conditions, new or modified statutory or regulatory requirements, and changing price and market conditions. DATASOURCE: First Union Kredit CONTACT: Equitable Mining Corp, Jim Adams, (416) 410-3995,

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