Canadian Shield Exploration: New Discoveries & Project Advancement
Join us as we explore exciting companies making new discoveries and advancing projects in the heart of the Canadian Shield. This event highlights emerging opportunities and strategic developments driving resource exploration across this mineral-rich geological region.
Wed, July 9, 2025 at 10:00 AMendedReplay
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Meeting Overview The meeting focused on the exploration opportunities in the Canadian Shield, particularly in Northern Ontario. Executives from ThunderGold, GFG Resources, and Dryden Gold discussed the geological advantages of the region, current market conditions, and their respective exploration strategies. Key Discussion Points - Geological advantages of the Canadian Shield in Northern Ontario for gold exploration. - Current market conditions and government support for mining and exploration. - The role of the Ontario Junior Exploration Program (OJEP) in providing funding for exploration. - Exploration strategies of each company, including targeting high-grade structures and large tonnage systems. - The importance of geological surveys and collaboration with government geological services. Decisions Made - No explicit decisions recorded. Action Items & Next Steps - [Unassigned] : Follow up on the questions submitted by attendees regarding specific stocks and projects. - [Unassign...
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.
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Speaker 2: I'll say good morning or good afternoon, depending on where in the world you're signing in from today. Did see quite a few time zones represented, so thanks for joining us today. Today I've got executives with projects on the Canadian Shield that discuss the region's opportunities. More specifically, I'm joined today by Wes Hanson, CEO of ThunderGold, Brian Skanderbeg, CEO and President of GFG Resources, and Mark Hall, President of Dryden Gold. Folks, how are you doing today? Speaker 3: Great. Good morning. Great. Couldn't be better. Awesome. Speaker 2: So here's how today is going to work. 1st, I've got some questions that we'll ask to kind of get towards the protein of today's topic. But this is also an interactive event. So if you do have questions that are on topic for today's event, there's a chat button on the bottom right of your screen. Please do use it any time during today's event. Speaker 2: If your questions are directed really specific to some of the stocks represented here today, we'll collect them and give them to the associated teams, but it's unlikely we'll get to them today unless it somehow works perfectly with the topic that we're speaking to today. Please don't worry. I will send them to the appropriate teams and they'll get back to you as soon as possible. A couple of quick housekeeping things. Today's event is being recorded and will be available for replay Speaker 2: in the early afternoon Eastern time. You'll be able to find it on this same link but it'll also be represented on Six's YouTube page. Speaker 2: But enough out of me, I'm going to get straight into our speakers today by talking 1st about the geological advantages that make the Canadian Shield, particularly in Northern Ontario, such a compelling region for gold explorati...
