FEBRUARY 17, 2003,

International Curator Resources Ltd. has signed an agreement to make a takeover bid for Royal County Minerals Corp. Royal County, a Kelowna-based, Canadian publicly traded company, has a portfolio of gold/ copper/ silver exploration properties in northwestern British Columbia - home to the Eskay Creek, Snip and Golden Bear Mines.

International Curator is a Lundin managed company. The Lundins, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and Canada manage a group of internationally recognized publicly traded natural resource companies. The Lundins have been responsible for a number of world class mineral and oil and gas discoveries and

developments including the Bajo de la Alumbrera copper/ gold deposit which was the subject of $510 million takeover by Rio Algom and North Limited and the Veladero gold discovery, the subject of a $300 million takeover by Homestake.

Veladero is now owned by Barrick and part of the Pascua/ Lama/ Veladero deposit with total resources of over 26 million ounces and is considered the largest undeveloped gold deposit in the world today.