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| | | Keith Barron, Ph.D
Position: President and CEO, Director
Dr. Barron is an exploration geologist with over 30 years' experience in the mining sector. He has consulted on all the continents except for Antarctica, searching for such commodities as gold, silver, diamonds, uranium, copper, platinum, and industrial minerals. He holds a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Western Ontario and a BSc. (Hons) in Geology from the University of Toronto. In 2001 he privately co-founded Ecuador gold explorer Aurelian Resources Inc., which was listed on the TSX-V in 2003 and made the Fruta del Norte gold discovery in 2006. The company was bought by Kinross Gold in 2008 for $1.2 billion. He is the founder and a Director of U3O8 Corp. (UWE:TSX-V) exploring for uranium in Guyana, Argentina and Colombia.
In 2008 he was awarded the PDAC's Thayer Lindsley International Discovery Award for his role in the discovery of the Fruta del Norte gold deposit and he was also jointly named the Northern Miner's Mining Man of the Year 2008. Dr. Barron continues his activities through two private companies, Solidus Resource Capital Ltd. and Aurania Resources Ltd. in the search for worldwide mining and exploration opportunities.
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| | | Richard Spencer
Position: Director
Richard Spencer, Ph.D. Dr. Spencer is a geologist with over 30 years of exploration experience in Southern Africa and South America. Dr. Spencer led Gencor Ltd.'s exploration team that made the grassroots discovery of the San Carlos, Mirador and Panantza porphyries. Dr. Spencer also worked at Iamgold Corp. where his team discovered the Quimsacocha -- Loma Larga deposit in Ecuador. He later joined Crystallex International Corp. as a VP-Exploration, working on the Las Cristinas gold deposit in Venezuela. Dr. Spencer serves as the President and Director of Aurania Resources Ltd., a junior exploration mining company engaged in the identification, evaluation, acquisition and exploration of mineral property interests, with a focus on precious metal. and as a President, CEO and Director of U3O8 Corp. Dr. Spencer holds a Ph.D and B.Sc (Hons) with distinction from University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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| | | Warren Boyd
Position: Director
Warren Boyd, FGC, BSC.(Geol), FCGmA, FGA, (Gemmology) Warren Boyd is both an experienced exploration/development geologist as well as an experienced gemmologist involved in the development and exploitation of coloured gemstone mines around the world. This has included being the Director of Marketing for Tsar Emerald Corporation from 2004 to 2007 that rehabilitated and brought back into production an emeralds and alexandrite mine in the Ural Mountains of Russia. Additionally he has been involved in the development and marketing of Demantoid Garnets, turquoise and peridot from the USA. Mr. Boyd was also an experienced rough Diamond Valuator with the Canadian Government Diamond Valuator contract involved in the valuation and assessment of the Northwest Territories rough diamond production for royalty assessment purposes. Mr. Boyd continues to value and consult on the marketing of rough diamond productions from Africa and South America and to also manage his family-owned business in the design and manufacturing of fine jewellery pieces.
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| | | John Kowalchuk, P.Geo.
Position: Director
John Kowalchuk possesses more than 38 years of mineral exploration experience with both senior and junior mining companies, working in Canada, US, Mexico and Chile. He was District Geologist for Placer Dome for over 6 years and was instrumental in the discovery of several world-class mineral deposits in Canada including the Howard's Pass SEDEX Zn-Pb deposit on the Yukon/NWT border and the Kerr Copper Gold Deposit at Sulphurets Creek, BC. He is currently a consulting geologist.
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| | | Donna McLean
Position: Chief Financial Officer
Donna McLean has over 25 years experience as CFO, Treasurer, Controller. She has worked for numerous publicly traded mining companies including Intrepid Mines Ltd., Xmet Inc. and Everton Resources Inc. Ms. McLean is founder and President of DMc Corporate Services Inc., a private company that provides financial and administrative services to established and emergent businesses, operating in a variety of sectors and industries. Ms McLean holds a BA from Queens University.
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