GEOLOGICAL TECHNICAL TEAM

Mitchell E. Lavery
P.Geo. – VP of Exploration & Corporate Development & Director

A Mining exploration professional with over 42 years of experience in all aspects of mineral exploration around the world from grass roots to ore deposit delineation to developing and managing a mine. He has been involved in the discovery of and/or development of several mineral deposits in Canada. His experience covers gold, silver, uranium, nickel, cobalt, base metals and lithium. Mr. Lavery is a licensed Professional Geologist in the Province of Quebec (N0. 181) and brings both strong technical and management skills to the company and has served as a senior officer and/or director on other public and private companies and is a lifetime member of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada.

Dr. Charles (Jay) Hodgson
Research Exploration Geologist

A Research Exploration Geologist with over 40 years of worldwide experience in base and precious metal exploration. He is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal and received his PHD from the University of California at Berkeley. From 1972 to 1995, Dr. Hodgson was Professor of Economic Geology at Queen’s University where he taught and carried out a program of mineral exploration research on gold, base metal VMS and Sedex, and copper-gold porphyry deposits in collaboration with the mining industry. Dr. Hodgson was Chief Geologist at Barrick Gold Corp. where he was involved with designing Barrick’s worldwide exploration programs and ensuring that the company maintained its technical edge among the gold exploration world.