Mr. Briggs has a Bachelor of Science degree in geology from the University of Durham, England. He held a senior exploration position with Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited, during which time he established the company’s regional exploration office for the Atlantic Provinces of Canada. Starting in the early 1980’s, Mr. Briggs held senior management positions with Manitoba Mineral Resources Ltd. (MMR) ultimately serving as president from 1993-1995. While at MMR, Mr. Briggs managed the company’s 27% interest in the Trout Lake Joint Venture and annually negotiated the sale of MMR’s share of production from the 2,500 ton per day Trout Lake Mine resulting in annual revenues of some $18 million. He also represented MMR on the Board of Tantalum Mining Corporation of Canada (Tanco), North America’s only tantalum producer.
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Speaker 1: Hello everyone and welcome to Playfair Mining's live summit today, hosted by 6. I'm joined today by Don Moore, CEO and Director at Playfair Mining, as well as Neil Briggs, their director. Don and Neil are going to walk us through their presentation and after we'll be accepting questions. You can submit your questions using the Q&A panel found on the right hand side of your screen at any time during today's presentation Speaker 1: and as always this summit is being recorded and will be available to watch afterwards on Six.com. Speaker 1: Without further ado though, I'm gonna hand things over to you Don to kick us off. Speaker 2: Thank you Cam. Speaker 2: Welcome back everybody. This is Playfair's 2nd ever Speaker 2: virtual event. Speaker 2: I'm hoping it'll go a little smoother than the last 1. Speaker 2: So I guess just to bring you all up to speed, some of you will have heard this before, some haven't. Speaker 2: So I'm just going to speak generally Speaker 2: as to why we're in Norway. So what convinced Speaker 2: Neil and Greg Davison and Don Moore to pick up a project in Norway for Playfair. Speaker 2: There's lots of projects out there in the world and we're always looking. Speaker 2: This particular 1 came by EMX. EMX is a Canadian company Speaker 2: mainly operating out of the States. They're Speaker 2: a project generator type of a company. We looked at their projects and lo and behold, we came up with this really interesting looking Speaker 2: project in Norway and we dubbed it RKV. Speaker 2: RKV Speaker 2: covers a really great track of land that hasn't been looked at for over 50 years. And it's got interesting history dating back to the 1600s. Speaker 2: What most people wouldn't realize is that Norway actually Speaker 2: provided Speaker 2: t...
