Technical Advisory Board

 
John E. Robins, P.Geo.
Position: Technical Advisory Board
A geologist by training and a prospector at heart, John Robins is a graduate from the University of British Columbia with a degree in geological sciences. With over 25 years of experience in mineral exploration, Mr. Robins has earned a reputation as being an innovative explorer and an astute business man. John is a Fellow of the Geological Association of Canada, member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC, Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, and the Association for Mineral Exploration BC. An experienced professional with a strong background in exploration and project management, he is a principal in the Hunter Exploration Group, a private exploration and venture capital group based in Vancouver, BC. Since its inception in 1988, Hunter and its predecessor ARC Resource Group, Hunter has staked over 20 million acres of mineral claims in Canada and generated over $50,000,000 in exploration expenditures.

 
Patrick Gorman
Position: Technical Advisory Board
Mr. Gorman is a mining engineer with thirty years of managerial, technical and project experience in a wide range of business, cultural and climatic environments and commodities. Mr. Gorman has managed development programmes, pre-feasibility and bankable feasibility studies, conceptual evaluations, scoping and acquisition studies, post privatisation support and technical audits for project financing. Mr. Gorman's feasibility study experience has included Escondida copper in Chile, Rebecca gold in Zimbabwe, Loma de Niquel in Venezuela, Castellanos lead/zinc in Cuba. He has led long term technical re-development and co-operation programmes at Trepca Lead/Zinc in Kosovo, Jiangxi Copper in China and Buryatzoloto Gold in Russia.

 
Brian Fagan
Position: Technical Advisory Board
Mr. Fagan has over 30 years experience in the formation, financing, and day-to-day management of publicly traded junior mineral exploration companies. As president, CEO, and COO of several mineral exploration companies, he has conceptualized and managed exploration programs in Canada, USA, Mexico, and Argentina. For the ten year period ended 31 December 2004, as editor of The Fagan Report, a mining stock advisory newsletter, he was a frequent TV, radio, newspaper, and media commentator on the subject of gold and gold mining stocks, as well as a speaker at many related conferences. Having recently returned to North America from an 18-month engagement managing a mineral exploration company in Northwest Argentina, Mr. Fagan is presently the editor and publisher of Stocks and Speculations, a financial newsletter specializing in natural resource stocks.

 
Art Soregaroli
Position: Technical Advisory Board
Dr. Art Soregaroli has spent the last 45 years in the study, exploration and evaluation of mineral deposits around the world. In his various roles as VP Exploration and Chief Geoscientist, he has been responsible for organizing and managing exploration teams in discovering the HW sulphide deposit on Vancouver Island, discovering and establishing the Premier gold mine, and in the exploration and development of major copper and copper/molybdenum mines including Boss Mountain and Brenda in British Columbia. Dr. Soregaroli holds Fellowships and memberships in several professional organizations including Fellowships in the Society of Economic Geologists, the Geological Society of Canada, the Geological Society of America and the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (CIMM). He has been the recipient of various awards including a Distinguished Service Gold Medal and the AO Dufresne Award from the CIMM, the Frank Woodside Past President Award from the BC & Yukon Chamber of Mines, and the Duncan Derry Medal from the Geological Association of Canada.