Ian Harris, a mining engineer with over 25 years of global mining experience, including 15 years in South America and Colombia, has successfully advanced a wide range of projects, demonstrating his leadership in diverse and challenging environments. Previously, he served as Chief Executive Officer of AMAK Mining and Para Resources. Mr. Harris was also Senior Vice President and Country Manager of Corriente Resources through feasibility, initial engineering, and commencement of construction at the Mirador mine in Ecuador. He successfully led the push to reactivate Corriente's mining projects in Ecuador by building national and local support and navigating through a new constitution and a new mining law, leading to the sale of Corriente for $690 million. Mr. Harris is bilingual in Spanish and English.
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Okay, so up next we've got Outcrop Silver. Outcrop Silver is a silver and gold explorer in Colombia with the Santa Ana high-grade silver deposit, as well as some gold projects which are also in Columbia. They've recently announced and made an indicated resource. Fully diluted, they have about 388 million shares outstanding, market cap of about 61 million. They trade on the CSE, on OCG, on the OTCQX, on OCGSF, and in Frankfurt on MRG. I'd like to welcome Ian Harris, President and CEO. Very good. Good morning. So, I am Ian Harris. I'm here to talk about outcrop and the famous Santa Ana mine. Obviously, lots of forward-looking statements, so I encourage everybody to do their own due diligence. And I don't normally spend too much time on this slide, but Kai said to make sure to talk a little bit about the overall industry. So Santa Ana is all about silver. I'm going to start with I'm a mining engineer. I've got 25 years working in the industry. 15 of those years are living in South America. And for the majority of my career, I've never been a silver bug. Never. Okay? Because I'm a fundamentalist when it comes to mining. I believe in commodities and the long-term outlook for those commodities. And I like being involved in projects that became future minds and really didn't buy into the overall silver story. But that's obviously something that has transformed dramatically over the last years. Silver has really changed, and those that have maybe ignored silver in the past, maybe should take a new look at it, because over the last 5 years, it has truly turned into an industrial metal. It hasn't lost its silver shine in terms of monetary or insurance to fiat currencies, but it truly has become a true industrial metal. Now, last year I think it was 65% of the demand in silver ...
