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On Track To Be Alaska’s Next Gold Mine

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Thu, January 28, 2021 at 12:00 PMendedReplay
On Track To Be Alaska’s Next Gold Mine

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Speaker profile Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse

Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse

President, CEO, & Director at Contango ORE

Rick has more than 40 years of experience in the natural resource sector. Before joining Contango Ore in January 2020, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Trilogy Metals, who are currently developing the high- grade Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects located in the Ambler Mining District of Alaska. Trilogy is a company which was created in 2012 as a spin-out from NOVAGOLD, a well-known company he founded over 20 years ago. NOVAGOLD is currently finalizing permits for the 40 million ounce Donlin Gold Project in Southwest Alaska with partner Barrick Gold, the world’s largest gold company. Previous to his role as Founder, President, and CEO of NOVAGOLD, he held the position of Vice President of Exploration for Placer Dome Inc. from 1990 to 1997. In addition to his international exploration perspective, Rick brings years of working experience in and knowledge of Alaska to Contango. Rick has managed projects from grassroots discovery through to advanced feasibility, production and closure. He has played a key role in setting up several other corporate entities including: Alexco - where he remains a Director - which is rejuvenating the Keno Hill Silver District in the Yukon; Tintina Resource (now Sandfire Resources America), which discovered and is now completing a feasibility study + permitting the high grade Black Butte copper project in Montana; and SolidusGold, where he is Chairman. Rick holds a Candidature degree in Science from the Université de Louvain, Belgium, and a Master of Science degree in Geology from the University of Arizona. He received the Thayer Lindsley award in 2009 for his role in the Donlin Gold discovery and the Colin Spence Award in 2016 for his role in the Bornite Discovery.

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Speaker 1: Hi everyone and welcome to Contango OARS Live Investment Summit today hosted by 6. I'm pleased to introduce President and CEO Rick Van Neuwenhuysen Speaker 1: today. Rick is going to walk us through a company presentation and after that we'll be accepting questions. Speaker 1: As a reminder, you can submit your questions at any time on the Q&A panel on the right-hand side of your screen. Speaker 1: As always, the summit is being recorded and will be available to you to watch afterwards on six.com. Speaker 1: So now without any further ado, I'll hand it over to you, Rick. Speaker 2: Thank you, Dasha, and good morning, everyone, Speaker 2: or Speaker 2: Good afternoon, depending on where you are. Speaker 2: Welcome to, Speaker 2: contango or and welcome to my house in Fair Banks, Alaska here, where it's about 20 below outside right now, and still dark, but. Speaker 2: We Speaker 2: persevere. I look forward to Speaker 2: presenting our our story to you. And if you've heard it before, I'll be a bit of an update on a few areas, but. Speaker 2: We'll Speaker 2: start from the top here with just pointing out our forward looking statements. Speaker 2: As well as our cautionary language Speaker 2: around resources Speaker 2: and non-gap measurements. Speaker 2: So let me start out by just giving a high-level overview of our project. Speaker 2: We have about 1.3 million ounces outlined. Speaker 2: We're up in Alaska. We're Speaker 2: not too far from the Canadian border, from the Yukon border. Speaker 2: Our grade averages 4g per tonne, which for an open pit mining proposal is very, very high grades. Speaker 2: As I mentioned, we're located right along the Alaska Highway, Speaker 2: so we don't have Speaker 2: the typical Speaker 2: infrastructure issues that many ...

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