Mr. Van Nieuwenhuyse was appointed to serve as President, Chief Executive Officer, and director of the Company effective January 6, 2020. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Trilogy Metals Inc. from January 2012 until December 2019. Between May 1999 and January of 2012, he served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of NOVAGOLD, Inc, a company that he founded. He served as the Vice President of Exploration for Placer Dome from 1990 to 1997. Mr. Van Nieuwenhuyse holds a Candidature degree in Science from Université de Louvain, Belgium and a Master of Science degree in Geology from the University of Arizona. Mr. Van Nieuwenhuyse currently serves on the board of directors of Alexco Resource Corp. He served on the board of directors of Sandfire Resources America, Inc. (formerly, Tintina Resources Inc.) from 2008 until 2016. Mr. Van Nieuwenhuyse has over forty years of experience in the minerals mining industry and brings significant industry and technical knowledge to the Company.
Dave brings over 20 years’ experience in executing exploration programs. He has been Chief Exploration Geologist for the Pogo Gold Mine and Principal Geologist Exploration for Teck Resources Vancouver Head Office. Dave brings his extensive expertise in operating exploration activities in Alaska from his understanding of the geology, operating conditions and networks.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, depending on where you're signing in from today. I know we've got a big crowd, so I really appreciate all of your time today as we discuss some recent news for Contango. I've got with me today Dave Larimer with his fresh title at Contango War, Vice President of Exploration, and Rick Van Duyne, the company's CEO. Gentlemen, how are you today? Speaker 1: Doing good. The gold's doing well, so we're happy. Well, that's all good news. And I know there was a Hawaiian shirt theme today. I tried my best with a t-shirt with a Hawaiian shirt, So I'm trying at least to fit in with you gentlemen for today's conversation. Speaker 1: We do have quite a big crowd and some exciting geo news at Lucky Shot. So I wanna get through the housekeeping real quick so I can get into the good stuff. There is a chat button on the bottom right of the screen. Please use it at any time during today's event. I would love to hear from you. We'll try to get to as many questions as we can. Hopefully I'll cover a lot during the questions that I have. But anything I'm missing, please do bug me there. I'll try to get to as many questions as I can today. Speaker 1: Only other thing that I'll say is Today's event is being recorded. We'll be available for replay before the end of the day, Eastern time. We both in our YouTube channel, but also right in your inbox, especially for the folks in the room. But enough boring stuff, Rick, I wanna talk right away with the headline number, 60 grams over nearly 6 meters from LSU 25031 Speaker 1: with a sub interval pushing almost 295 Speaker 1: grams. Speaker 1: So it's a bit of a wow number there for sure. Walk us through what you're seeing with this vein and why the orientation matters specifically. Speaker 2...
