Founder, Director, President and Chief Executive Officer at Goldgroup
Simon Ridgway is a co-founder of Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. and Radius Gold Inc., a prospector, a mining financier and a Casey Research Explorer’s League inductee. Mr. Ridgway and the exploration teams under his guidance have discovered gold deposits in Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua and a silver/gold deposit in Mexico. His companies have raised over CAD$450 million for exploration and development projects since 2003, including a recently completed $100M bought deal for Fortuna Silver Mines.
Mr. Usenmez is a Geological Engineer and a mining entrepreneur with over 20 years of global experience and has worked in various technical and leadership roles. After working with various VMS deposits and discoveries while working with Inco, Vale and Amec, he managed a drilling company, where the company grew during the downturn. He worked in numerous VMS deposits in Canada, such as Duck Pond NFLD, Bathurst in New Brunswick, and in Northern Manitoba, mainly in base metals, such as Zinc. He co-owns Atom Bits, a rapidly growing diamond drilling bit manufacturer in Canada. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the PDAC and is the Co-Chair of Public Affairs Committee.
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Speaker 1: Well, thank you for tuning in to our webinar, not webinar, a fireside chat, even though Speaker 2: It's quite hot in Vancouver where Simon is. Quite hot here, yeah. Probably the riverside chat, maybe. Speaker 1: Yeah. We are very excited to have Simon with us today. Speaker 1: He's the co-founder of Fortuna Silver Mines. Speaker 1: He had Speaker 1: many discoveries and Speaker 1: co-founder of actually the founder of Metallum as well as Radius Gold. Speaker 1: He's a prospector, very successful prospector, mining financier, Speaker 1: and Casey Research Explorers League inductee. Speaker 1: He and his teams, under his guidance, obviously, Speaker 1: have discovered Speaker 1: gold deposits in Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Speaker 1: and a silver gold deposit in Mexico. His companies have raised over $450 million Speaker 1: for exploration and development projects since early 2000s, Speaker 1: including recently completed 100 million dollars both deal for Fortuna Silvermice. And he's the chairman of our company, Speaker 1: relatively new company, Metallum Resources. Speaker 2: Thank you, Kerem. Speaker 2: Nice to be here. Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you for joining us. Speaker 1: So today we'd like to talk about, you know, how Metallum came into Speaker 1: a great new company that's focusing on base metals, because your history has been heavily on precious metals some base metals obviously but Speaker 1: just wanted to you know talk about where how it started why Speaker 1: we started Metallum but I think It will be better if it comes from you, and then I can talk about Mittel Speaker 1: and what we are doing. Well, actually, Speaker 2: the opportunity came to me via Sprott. Speaker 2: Sprott was working with Superior Lake Speaker 2: in Australia back in...
