Garett is a professional mining engineer with extensive experience in project development and mine operations with over 25 years of industry experience. Garett served as Vice President of Project Development for JDS Energy and Mining, and was responsible for leading the Curraghinalt Feasibility Study for Dalradian Resources, a +5M ounce high grade, narrow vein gold project in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Dalradian was acquired by Orion Mine Finance for $537M in 2018. From 2009 to 2013 he served as Vice President of Operations for Rainy River Resources prior to the $310M sale of Rainy River to New Gold Inc. Garett also held roles in mine operations and project engineering throughout his career with senior Canadian mining firms Placer Dome, Teck Corporation and Suncor Energy. Garett is currently a director of Aurelius Minerals and Gungnir Resources. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Western University’s Ivey Business School and a Bachelor of Engineering (Mining) from Laurentian University in Sudbury.
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Okay. All right. Fair warning, I'm an engineer, so this is going to go in a different direction perhaps. If you have... Personal? Just witnessing? No, no, no, that's perfect. Yeah, we don't get to do our work until the GEOs find something, so we have to work together. So that's all good. So I'm Garrett McDonald, CEO of Maritime Resources. Happy to give you an update today on our projects in Newfoundland and Labrador. Just like Roger before me, we're working in this great jurisdiction. We've been very busy the last few years developing a gold project with very high grades. We've put together an entire mining package from mine to mill to tailings that is completely permitted in a very high grade open pit mine. So we'll talk to you about that, what our plans are in the near future and some of the exploration opportunities that we like to actually grow the resource, grow the mine life, and add value to the story. This is an interesting shot, actually. This is our facility at the Point Rouse Project in Newfoundland and Labrador, where we just did an acquisition back in September of last year. We acquired this asset from a company called Signal Gold. It was up for sale. We had looked at it for a couple of years. It's a fully permitted 1,300 ton a day process plant with a large in-pit tailings facility there. You can see the light-colored pond. That's an old open-pit mine that's been converted into a tailings facility. And on the front of the screen there is actually a contractor that's mining the waste rock from the old open-pit mine. And they're producing an aggregate product. They crush it, they wash it, they actually put it on a ship, Panamax-sized vessels, and they go down to Florida, they offload, and they've recently started shipping this rock down to Guyana, of all ...
