Alan J. San Martin is a mining engineer with Micon. He has 10 years of experience in database management, 3D modelling and resource estimation of mineral deposits exploration projects in South America. As Senior Geological Modeller and Database Manager with Aurelian Resources Inc. Mr. San Martin was part of the discovery team of the Fruta Del Norte (FDN) world-class gold deposit in Ecuador, he was responsible to organize, built and manage the computer systems and geological database, conducting resource estimates as required. Before FDN Mr. San Martin gained experience in Mine Project Development in Tambo Grande VMS Deposit in Peru where he worked with Manhattan Minerals Corp. as mining engineer responsible for GIS and CAD maps, database administration, helped consultants and senior management with data supply, drawings and designs for the Feasibility Study and EIA; support in community relations assessments and negotiations; prepare and participate in public audiences and other presentations for the Peruvian government. (Details...)

Barnard Foo, P.Eng is a Senior Mining Engineer with Micon, based in the Vancouver office. He has over 10 years of experience in underground mine operations and in the engineering consulting sector. Barnard has strong technical expertise in underground mine design, rock mechanics and the design of paste backfill systems. He is particularly familiar with the mining industry in South America, having carried out long-term assignments in Brazil and Peru. (Details...)

Beatrice Foret is a mining geologist with over six years experience in exploration and mineral resource estimation. She has particular knowledge of nickel laterite deposits and is an experience user of Surpac software in three dimensional modelling and mine design. (Details...)

Bogdan Damjanović has 20 years of international experience in mining operations and consulting. Prior to joining Micons Toronto office, he was the President of Express Operations developing a salt mine in North America. He has provided technical advice to the Prime Ministers office in Guyana in developing mineral policy and, in various capacities, to junior mining companies. Bogdan has industry operating experience gained as Chief Metallurgist at the Cayeli copper-zinc mine of Inmet Mining Corporation and Senior Metallurgist at the Olympias gold mine of TVX-Hellas AS in Greece. He has also worked with international engineering firms as a process engineer.  (Details...)

Catherine Dreesbach is a professional mining engineer with five years of industry experience in underground mining operations and eight years of regulatory experience in both coal and hard rock operations. Catherines expertise includes underground mine planning and design, production scheduling, project implementation and supervision, rock mechanics, mine permitting and compliance, and reclamation oversight. She is an experienced user of complex computer software packages, such as Vulcan and ArcGIS. Catherine has familiarity with more than 70 (underground and surface) hard rock and coal operations gained through regular site visits, and has direct knowledge of various underground and surface mining methods and surface facility design. She also has direct experience in the implementation of federal and state environmental regulations for operations and reclamation. With Micon, Ms. Dreesbach will provide mining engineering consulting services to North American and international clients.  (Details...)

Charley Murahwi is an Senior Geologist with Micon. He has held senior management positions with major mining companies, including Anglo American plc, and has experience in gold and base metal exploration in Archean granite-greenstone terrains and platinum group metals in layered intrusions. As an Independent Consultant, Mr. Murahwi undertook the technical and financial evaluation of mining and exploration projects in a number of countries in Central and Southern Africa. He has an M.Sc. from Rhodes University in South Africa and a Diplome D'Ingeneur Expert from the Nancy School of Mines, France. (Details...)

Christopher Jacobs is a Vice President and senior consultant in mineral economics, based in Toronto. He is a chartered engineer and holds an MBA, with over 28 years of experience in the management of mineral exploration and mining operations. Since joining Micon in 2004, Chris has undertaken due diligence, feasibility study and mine evaluation assignments involving gold, nickel/copper, IOCG, lead/zinc, iron, tin, chromite, vanadium and platinum deposits in North and South America, Asia (Russia, China, Kazakhstan) and South Africa. Prior to this, Chris was planning manager with Anglo Platinum, operations director for the Zimbabwean gold mining operations of Anglo American plc, and technical director of Cluff Resources Zimbabwe Ltd. (Details...)

Christopher Lattanzi is a mining engineer, Principal and former President of Micon. He has been active in the consulting area since 1967, when he joined David S. Robertson & Associates, and was a founding member of Micon International in 1988. Prior to joining Robertson & Associates, he was in charge of mine design and operation for Canada's first oil sands operation, and a senior operating engineer in the brown coal industry of the State of Victoria, Australia. Mr. Lattanzi has particular expertise in property valuation and expert witness testimony in cases of litigation. (Details...)

David Makepeace is a Senior Geologist based in the Vancouver office of Micon International Limited. He has over 30 years experience in geology and exploration, environmental impact assessments, mineral property evaluation and project management in Canada, the United States, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali and Zambia. Mr. Makepeace has extensive experience in computer modeling software. (Details...)

Dayan Anderson is a mining engineer with over 12 years experience in open pit operations, strategic planning, and economic analysis. She has been involved in mine permitting, reclamation, and environmental management in the United States. Her experience includes the use of mine planning and pit optimization software, GPS and GIS technologies (Details...)

Evgeny Kondratiev is an exploration geologist based in Moscow through Micon's Norwich office. Prior to joining Micon he held the position of Chief Geologist at the Zapolyarny mine and the Norilsk 1 group of mines operated by Norilsk Nickel as well as senior positions in the geological exploration division and the mining department of that company. Evgeny is a certified user of AutoCAD, MineScape and Surpac and implemented the installation of computerized survey and geological data systems at the mines of Norilsk Nickel. (Details...)

Jane Spooner is a Principal and mineral market specialist with Micon. She has specialized in mineral market analysis since graduation as a geologist and has prepared studies on a wide range of metals and industrial minerals, coal and uranium. Market and price outlook studies are used by Micon in the evaluation and valuation of mineral properties. Mineral market analysis is also provided for the advice of clients in looking at new business opportunities, acquisitions and in support of litigation. (Details...)

Jenifer Hill is an environmental scientist with over 15 years experience in environmental assessments. Jenifer is based in Micon's Vancouver office. She has been involved in project management, due diligence and independent engineer reviews, environmental baseline studies, impact assessments, mitigation planning, and environmental management. Her experience includes forestry, transportation, and hydroelectric projects in Canada and mining projects throughout Canada, Latin America, and internationally. (Details...)

Jim Leader is a Senior Mining Engineer with Micon, based in our Vancouver office. Jim has 30 years varied experience in operations, technical planning and mining consultancy, with expertise in the technical and economic evaluation of mining properties. After graduating from Camborne School of Mines in 1974, Jim worked at a large underground copper mine in Zambia before obtaining his M.Sc.(Mining Engineering) from Queen's University, Ontario, in 1980. He then worked at an open pit molybdenum mine in British Columbia, and as a mining analyst before joining Wright Engineers (now Fluor Daniel) where, between 1984 and 2001, he undertook project evaluations, due diligence and feasibility studies for many clients on projects worldwide. From 2001 until 2006, when he joined Micon, Jim taught in the Mining Technology program at BCIT. (Details...)

Jonathan Steedman is a Mineral Resource Geologist with Micon, based in Norwich. Since joining Micon in 2005, Mr. Steedman has provided technical consulting services to clients across the world, with involvement in feasibility studies, technical due diligence work, mineral reserve audits and competent persons reports. Prior to this, he worked as an independent geological consultant, having gained operating experience in copper mining in central Africa where he was the site geologist and, subsequently, provided mine planning consulting services. He is fully familiar with a number of commercial mine design and scheduling software packages relating to borehole databases, geostatistics, block modeling, open pit optimization, mine design and scheduling, and has provided on-site training courses in the use of such software in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, and Asia. (Details...)

Mike Godard is a Professional Engineer with over twenty years experience in design, commissioning and operations, in oilsands, mineral processing and metals fabrication. His employment experience includes bitumen extraction, gold, base metal and industrial mineral processing, and aerospace metals fabrication. He holds expertise in tailings management specifically in pumping, hydraulics and deposition. He is also skilled in establishing and maintaining solid business relationships within functional groups including engineers, operations, project managers, and government agencies. (Details...)

Richard Gowans is President of Micon. Mr. Gowans' experience as a metallurgist, which spans over 26 years, includes the operation and design of mineral processing and hydrometallurgical plants for a wide variety of minerals and metals. He has been involved in operations, management, detailed engineering and commissioning of a broad range of processing facilities. He has also worked on a wide assortment of feasibility studies, technical audits, project management and due diligence assignments on international industrial mineral, precious and base metal projects. Mr. Gowans gained his operations experience in the platinum mines of South Africa from 1981 and has been engaged in consulting since 1987, with firms LTA Process Engineering Limited, Kilborn (SNC-Lavalin) and with Micon, which he joined in 1998. (Details...)

Sam Shoemaker is an experienced mining engineer with operating experience in iron, copper and gold mines. He subsequently specialized in detailed mine planning and mine design for open pit operations of Cleveland Cliffs Inc. where he recently held the position of Chief Mine Planning Engineer. Sam has highly developed computer skills and is an experienced user of Vulcan and Surpac software (Details...)

Sandeep Prakash is a Mineral Resource Geologist with Micon International Limited, mineral industry consultants. He has 10 years of professional experience gained with mining and consulting companies in Canada, Sweden and India. Mr. Prakash has specialized in the application of GIS data to mineral exploration projects. He has direct experience using a number of GIS and remote sensing software packages, together with geological modeling software, Datamine, Gemcom and GOCAD.  (Details...)

Stanley Bartlett is a Senior Geologist and Vice President with Micon and is Managing Director of the firm's Norwich office. He has 20 years experience in project management and all aspects of mine production. Expertise includes project appraisal, data compilation and evaluation, orebody definition and modelling, sampling and assay quality control, geostatistics, ore reserve estimation, bulk sampling and support for metallurgical studies. Mr. Bartlett has held senior positions in mine operations and project evaluation groups, and most recently played an integral part in the development of an open pit copper mine/heap leach/electrowinning plant in Chile. During the course of his career, Mr. Bartlett has managed major mining and drilling contractors, and been responsible for liaison with government agencies, joint-venture partners, local community groups and mineral property vendors. (Details...)

B. Terrence (Terry) Hennessey is a Senior Geologist and Vice President with Micon. He has over 25 years of experience in field and underground mapping, reverse circulation and diamond drill program planning, execution and management, including over 10 years of experience at mineral resource estimation, ore reserve reporting and grade control at several open pit and underground mines in Canada. Prior to joining Micon, he gained experience in mapping, literature research, and preparation of maps for publication with the Ontario Geological Survey. He later worked in gold, base metals and tin exploration in the Canadian Shield and the Piedmont region of the Southeastern United States, as well as iron ore exploration in the Labrador Trough. Mr. Hennessey has production supervision experience in an open pit gold mine. Mr. Hennessey is currently involved in ore reserve estimation and auditing, and in the assessment and valuation of mines and mineral properties. He has particular experience in the collection and interpretation of geologic data in mining environments and their use to support or constrain conventional and block model resource estimates. (Details...)

Tom Stubens is a Senior Geologist with Micon International Limited, mineral industry consultants. Prior to joining the staff of Micon, Tom held senior management positions with major mining companies, including Canico Resource Corp., Placer Dome Inc. and United Keno Hill Mines, and worked with a wide variety of mineral commodities including gold, silver, copper, nickel-copper-PGE and rare earths. Tom's experience also covers a wide variety of geological environments in South and North America, Europe and Africa. He has extensive geological and operational experience and an advanced knowledge of geostatistics and mineral resource and reserve estimation. (Details...)

William (Bill) Lewis is a Senior Geologist with Micon. He has 20 years of professional experience with both exploration and mining projects, including 10 years of experience in production, mineral resource estimation, ore reserve reporting and grade control in underground mines. Prior to joining Micon, he was the Chief Geologist at the New Britannia Mine in Snow Lake, Manitoba and part of the management team responsible for the successful operation of this low-grade mine. He also held the position of Production Geologist of the Giant Gold Mine in Yellowknife, NWT. The gold mineralization at both the New Britannia and Giant mines was associated with hydrothermally altered and sulphide-bearing mafic volcanic rocks hosted in zones of shearing and deformation. (Details...)