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Q&A with Contango Ore – Alaska’s Next Gold Producer

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Thu, November 18, 2021 at 2:00 PMendedReplay
Q&A with Contango Ore – Alaska’s Next Gold Producer

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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: All right. Well, hello, everyone. I am pleased to introduce Contango Aura's president and CEO, Rick Van Nuenhuisen. Speaker 1: Before we jump into the discussion, I want to remind you all that you can submit your questions at any time on the Q&A panel on the right-hand side of the screen, and we will get to them after the discussion. But without further ado, Rick, can you provide an update on the Manchot Project and why the name changed from Pete Gold? Speaker 2: Sure, Dasha, good to see you again. Speaker 2: Yeah, so just the name change on to Manchurian, it's an Athabascan name Speaker 2: and after discussions with the Speaker 2: Tetlin tribe, Speaker 2: we decided to, in honor of representing, you know, their Speaker 2: tribe, Speaker 2: to switch the name over to an Athabascan name. It's actually specifically an upper Tanana Speaker 2: Athabascan name, so there's a lot of dialects in the Athabascan language. So Speaker 2: it represents, Speaker 2: refers to the large lake, which is called Tetlin Lake in English, but in their language it's Pancho. Speaker 2: And it's obviously, the village is located right adjacent to the lake and very important subsistence lake for them. So in Speaker 2: of the lake and the importance to them, Speaker 2: we're re-named the project to that. Speaker 2: Fortunately, the project isn't really next to the lake, it's on the other side of their land holdings to the north and Speaker 2: everything that's related to the project basically drains to the north. So Speaker 2: we're pleased that none of the work we'll be doing Speaker 2: around the project site will have any sort of direct or indirect Speaker 2: impact Speaker 2: on the man show Speaker 2: on the lake itself. Speaker 2: So it's a good setup for us. Speaker 2: In term...

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