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.
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Who knows what GFG stands for? Go for gold? Here it is. Gift from God. 2 founders of GFG were both named Jonathan, and Jonathan in Hebrew is gift from God. So today I'm going to talk to you about GFG and our activities in Timmins, but also our assets in Wyoming, and a little bit on the history of where we came from. Caution, I'm a geologist, I'm an explorationist, I'm an optimist. I think we're all here looking to make money. I will make forward-looking statements that I would point you to this cautionary statement. When we set up GFG, we set ourselves up as district scale explorers and our focus is in Timmins. We're a team that's found mines before, built mines, operated. Most of our executive team has been in the business for about 20 years. We formerly ran a company called Clode Resources in Saskatchewan. It was a producer. We sold it into SSR in a very good transaction back in 2015. And GFG was the company we formed and started after that. We're district-scale consolidators. We're not generators, per se, from a model perspective or a strategy perspective. We put the dollars into the ground. We explore it ourselves. We take it forward. Looking in world-class belts, at world-class style systems. And I think Timmins is 1 of those that is truly unique in the world. And what I'm going to show you is a very well-endowed piece of crust. Aggressive and disruptive, we're looking under cover. We're looking in belts that have big ore bodies, and we're trying to look at data and exploration models differently. Our mission, obviously, is to find the next greatest Timmins gold mine. Bit of a corporate snapshot here. We're about a 25 million market cap company. Post-closing our financing, which we closed 2 weeks ago, we have about $3.2 million in the bank. So reasonably well fi...
