Anthony Cohen
President and Director
Mr. A. Cohen is also the Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Gulf & Pacific Equities Corp., a publicly listed real estate company. Mr. A. Cohen was a past director of Chauvco Resources Ltd., an international oil and gas company and a current director of Gendis Inc., a private energy, real estate and agribusiness company. He received a Bachelor of Science, Business Administration degree from Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska.
James Cohen
Director
Mr. J. Cohen is the President and CEO of Gendis Inc., a Canadian private commercial real estate and investment company formerly listed on the TSX.
James is a past-Chair of Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet, The Manitoba Museum, The Manitoba Museum Foundation Inc., the Young Presidents Organization YPO Manitoba Chapter and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Development Committee. He is also a past board member of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League, the West End Cultural Centre and Tundra Oil and Gas Ltd.
James received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at the University of Western Ontario.
J.J. Elkin
Director
Mr. Elkin is an international entrepreneur and investor who has served as Director and CEO of a number of private and public companies. Fields of activity have included portfolio money management, real estate, manufacturing, and mining. He has an MBA degree from the Harvard Business School and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Peter Hubacheck
Director
Mr. Hubacheck is a consulting geologist and President of W. A. Hubacheck Consultants Ltd. He has over 45 years of experience as a project geologist, exploration manager and Qualified Person for the purposes of NI 43-101, with experience in the exploration for gold, silver, base metals, uranium and diamonds in Canada and the USA. He holds a Mining Technologist (1974) diploma from the Haileybury School of Mines and Technology, Haileybury, Ontario and a B.A.Sc. (Geol. Eng. 1977) degree from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Hubacheck served as a director of Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. (TSX: AEM) and, from 2004 to 2006, he served as a director of Contact Diamond Corporation (acquired by Stornoway Diamond Corporation). Mr. Hubacheck is currently consulting project manager for RJK Explorations Ltd. Since September 2022, Mr. Hubacheck has been engaged as QP for New Break Resources.
Ernie J. Marcotte
Director
Mr. Marcotte, P.Eng, FCIM, has over 40 years experience in the mining industry involving metallurgical and mining operations, environmental control, mineral processing, research and development, design engineering, plant commissioning and corporate management. He has extensive experience in gold, uranium, nickel-copper and platinum-palladium operations.
In his career, he has worked for a number of successful mining companies: Denison, East Malartic Gold, Upper Canada Gold, Falconbridge, Pamour, MacIsaac (INCO Shebandowan Operation) and North American Palladium. As Vice President Mining for North American Palladium and Vice President and General Manager Mining Operations for the Lac Des Iles Mine, he was instrumental in the initial commissioning and progressive improvement of the mine and mill operations. Ernie has served as Senior Metallurgist for SNC Lavalin, Vice President of Operations for Mustang Minerals Corp, and Senior Process Engineer for Rubicon Minerals Corporation.
Ernie served on the Board of Directors of Frontier Lithium, which is currently developing a high-grade lithium-rare metals deposit north of Red Lake, Ontario. He also served as a Director for Numax Resources (iron-titanium property).
Ernie is a graduate of the Haileybury School of Mines. He is a Fellow and Life Member of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum. Ernie is a founding member of the Canadian Mineral Processors. He was Chairman in 1968-69 and again in 1986-87.
He was the recipient of the CMP “Mill Man of The Year Award” in 1994, the “Lifetime Achievement Award” in 2013 and the “Ray MacDonald Volunteer Award in 2014”. He continued to be actively involved with CMP and served on the Board of Directors for 50 years.
As a highly respected member of his community, Ernie has served on a number of local Boards and Committees. He served as manager of the Levack High School senior hockey team from 1982-86.
John H. Paterson
Chairman and Director
Mr. Paterson has a diversity of experience gained with both major and junior mining companies. He is a professional engineer and has served on many boards of mining and exploration companies. Mr. Paterson was President and CEO of Aurogin Resources Ltd. (“Aurogin”) from 2002 to 2007, which developed the El Sastre gold mine in Guatemala prior to merging with Morgain Minerals (which formed Castle Gold Corp.). Before joining Aurogin, Mr. Paterson was President and CEO of Geomaque Explorations Ltd. from 1991 to 2001, where he directed the development of two heap leach gold mines, the San Francisco gold mine located in Sonora, Mexico and the Vueltas Del Rio gold mine located in Honduras. Mr. Paterson received his B.Sc.(Eng.) and M.Sc. from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
Nigel Lees
Advisor
Mr. Nigel Lees has over 30 years of experience in investment banking and financing. He was a founder and past director of TVX Gold Inc., a significant North and South America gold producer, which merged with Kinross Gold Corporation in 2003. He has served as a member of the Listings Committee of the Toronto Stock Exchange as well as an officer and board member of several publicly listed junior mining companies. Most recently, Mr. Lees served as a director of Yamana Gold Inc., including Chairman of the Compensation Committee.
Paul Lhotka
Technical Advisor
Dr. Paul Lhotka is a professional geologist with over 35 years in the mining and mineral exploration business with 23 of those years while living in Argentina. He is a technical specialist in exploration, geology, geochemistry, and mineralogy related to metallurgy. He has been directly involved in multiple discoveries and their development. Paul received a B.Sc. in Science from the University of Manitoba and a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta and is registered with the association of Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia.