**EXHIBIT 31.1**

**CERTIFICATIONPURSUANT TO RULES 13a-14(a) AND 15d-14(a), AS**

**ADOPTEDPURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT**

**OF 2002**

**Principal Executive Officer**

I, Bruce D. Hansen,certify that:

1.             I have reviewed thisQuarterly Report on Form 10-QSB of Idaho General Mines, Inc.;

2.             Based on my knowledge,this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit tostate a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of thecircumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading withrespect to the period covered by this report;

3.             Based on my knowledge,the financial statements, and other financial information included in thisreport, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, resultsof operations and cash flows of the small business issuer as of, and for, theperiods presented in this report;

4.             The small businessissuer’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing andmaintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange ActRules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the small business issuer and have:

a.                                    designed suchdisclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls andprocedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that materialinformation relating to the small business issuer, including its consolidatedsubsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularlyduring the period in which this report is being prepared;

b.                                   evaluated the effectivenessof the small business issuer’s disclosure controls and procedures and presentedin this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosurecontrols and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this reportbased on such evaluation; and

c.                                    disclosed in thisreport any change in the small business issuer’s internal control overfinancial reporting that occurred during the small business issuer’s mostrecent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely tomaterially affect, the small business issuer’s internal control over financialreporting;

5.             The small businessissuer’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our mostrecent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the smallbusiness issuer’s auditors and the audit committee of the small business issuer’sboard of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

a.                                    all significantdeficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internalcontrol over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adverselyaffect the small business issuer’s ability to record, process, summarize andreport financial information; and

b.                                   any fraud, whetheror not material, that involves management or other employees who have asignificant role in the small business issuer’s internal control over financialreporting.

Dated: May 16th,2007
|        |   | By:    | /s/ Bruce D. Hansen     |   |
|--------|--------|--------|-------------------------|--------|
|   |   | Name:  | Bruce D. Hansen         |
|   |   | Title: | Chief Executive Officer |

 

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