Canadian Shield Exploration: New Discoveries & Project Advancement

Maura Kolb is a professional geologist with over 15 years of experience in mining and exploration, with a strong focus on advancing projects from discovery through to commercial production. She previously served as Director of Exploration at Treasury Metals and spent eight years in the Red Lake Camp with Goldcorp, Newmont, Evaluation, and Battle North, leading both regional and mine-site exploration. Maura has also consulted junior mining companies focused on precious metals. She holds a Master of Science from Lakehead University, specializing in structural geology, which has been key to unlocking complex exploration targets. She serves as a Director for Critical Discoveries and is a Board Member of the Northwestern Ontario Chapter of Women in Mining.

Mr. Skanderbeg was most recently President and CEO of Claude Resources Inc. since November 2014 – which was acquired by Silver Standard Resources Inc. for $337 million. He previously worked for Goldcorp, Inco Ltd. and Helio Resources, holding positions in both exploration and operations. Mr. Skanderbeg is also a director of Wesdome Mines. He holds a B.Sc. from the University of Manitoba and an M.Sc. from Rhodes University, South Africa. He brings extensive experience in the exploration and evaluation of gold systems, operational management, cost and asset optimization and strategic analysis.

Wes C.Hanson P. Geo. has worked continuously in the mining and mineral exploration sector for forty years. An experienced exploration geologist, his early career included being a member of professional teams that found, developed and operated over a half dozen, high grade, underground gold discoveries. Being a member of these small, interdisciplinary team provided an opportunity to round up his professional experience, serving in the engineering, maintenance, metallurgical and mining departments both as a labourer and eventually, in supervisory roles. As a result, Mr. Hanson offers a wealth of hands-on practical experience with a strong background on mineral exploration, resource and reserve estimation and project evaluation. Later in his career, Mr. Hanson was part of teams that evaluated, designed and constructed several low grade, large tonnage open pit mines in the Yukon, Nevada, Chile and Brazil. He served in senior management positions with Kinross Gold and Western Goldfields (Newgold) where he was primarily engaged in technical supervision, project design and mergers and acquisitions.