Kit Marrs is the Co-Founder, CEO, and President of Alaska Silver, (formerly Western Alaska Copper & Gold). He has more than 25 years experience in mineral exploration and development, property evaluation, and project financing in Alaska and Mexico. Mr. Marrs has worked for major mining companies and consulting firms including Anaconda Minerals Company (Anaconda), Kennecott/Bear Creek Mining, Watts Griffis & McQuat, and Penoles, SA de CV. In 1981, he was the project geologist for the Illinois Creek/Round Top Project for Anaconda and directed the exploration program. He has extensive experience in financing, permitting, and implementing real estate development projects and joint venture developments with values of $10-30 million USD. His combined experience in both geologic exploration and development in Alaska, and real estate project financing, permitting and development gives Mr. Marrs a unique set of skills to lead this company. He holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Economic Geology from the University of Arizona, and served from 2005-2021 on the Advisory Board for the University of Arizona’s Department of Geosciences.
Dr. Megaw has a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Arizona and more than 30 years of relevant experience focused on silver and gold exploration in Mexico. He is a certified Professional Geologist by the American Institute of Professional Geologists and an Arizona Registered Geologist. Dr. Megaw has been instrumental in a number of mineral discoveries in Mexico including new ore bodies at existing mines, Excellon Resources’ Platosa Mine, and MAG Silver’s Juanicipio and Cinco de Mayo properties; discoveries for which he was given PDAC’s 2016 Thayer Lindsley Award. Peter is the author of numerous scientific publications on ore deposits and is a frequent speaker at academic and international exploration and mineralogical conferences.
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Speaker 1: Well, good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, depending on where in the world you're signing in from today. Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to join us. I've got with me today Kit Mars, CEO of Alaska Silver and Dr. Peter McGaw, Technical Advisor, to discuss recently announced results. Speaker 1: Kit, Peter, really great to see you both. How are you guys doing today? Speaker 2: Oh, good morning from Speaker 2: sunny Tucson. So nice here and nice to see you again, Bianca. Speaker 3: Good morning from chilly Vancouver. Great to see you. I should be in sunny Tucson, but Speaker 1: I'm not you and I both you and I both I'm looking out my window and I'm I'm always I'm I'm very jealous of sunny Tucson, but Speaker 1: folks, here's how today is going to work for you folks in the room I've got some questions for the team based on the latest release, and then I'd love to answer a couple questions from the live audience. Speaker 1: It's gonna be a short event today, likely gonna be about 15, 20 minutes or so. So if I don't get to your question, I'll make sure the team still gets ahold of it and they can tackle it afterwards. Speaker 1: Last piece of housekeeping before we get into today's show. Today's event is being recorded and will be available for replay Speaker 1: likely either later today or early tomorrow. Speaker 1: Without further ado, why don't we get into it. Kit, congratulations Speaker 1: on these high-grade results from both Waterpup Creek and Silver Sage. Can you walk us through the key highlights from this press release and share your overall thoughts on what makes this 2025 Speaker 1: drilling program particularly significant for Alaska Silver? Speaker 2: Sure, thank you for that, Bianca. Speaker 2: 1st, I'll say that we did h...
