Join the Reunion Gold team for a market update regarding the company's recent press release. Following the update, the team is available for questions.
Rick Howes joined Reunion Gold as CEO and President in January 2023 after joining the Board in November 2022. Mr. Howes is a seasoned mining executive with over 39 years of experience in the mining industry, most recently as CEO of Dundee Precious Metals. He has extensive operating, technical and project development experience in both underground and open pit mines throughout Canada and internationally. He has a track record for leading transformational change and operational excellence wherever he has worked. His passion for safety was instrumental in leading Vale’s North Mine to win the National Ryan Award for the safest mine in Canada in 2006. In 2009, Mr. Howes joined Dundee Precious Metals, where as VP and General Manager he led the transformation of the Chelopech Mine in Bulgaria to reach world class levels of performance. He became COO in 2011 and oversaw several significant growth capital development projects including the expansion of the Chelopech Mine, the upgrade and expansion of the Tsumeb Smelter in Namibia and the development of the greenfield Ada Tepe open pit gold mine in Bulgaria. He was appointed CEO in April 2013, where he led the company from a junior gold producer to a multi-asset mid-tier gold producer generating strong free cashflow and solid returns to shareholders. Mr. Howes retired from Dundee Precious Metals in 2020 and has since joined several mining company boards. He has been recognized as a visionary leader in mining, organizational innovation and transformation and was recognized as the Outstanding Innovator of 2016 by the International Mining Technology Hall of Fame.
Mr. Howes holds a Bachelor of Applied Science with Honours in Mining Engineering from Queens University, Kingston, Ontario and is a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors.
Justin van der Toorn is an exploration geologist with 18 years’ experience in the minerals industry, leading and managing exploration teams from grassroots activities through to discovery and resource definition drilling. With a focus on gold exploration, Mr. van der Toorn has worked across various regions including Eastern Europe, North America and the Guiana Shield. His previous experience has been in a range of commodity and deposit styles, including extensive work in Carlin-style gold, low- and high-sulphidation epithermal, porphyry, and orogenic gold systems. Mr. van der Toorn holds a MSci degree in Geological Sciences from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London. He is registered as a Chartered Geologist (CGeol) of the Geological Society, and a European Geologist (EurGeol) by the European Federation of Geologists.
Keith Boyle has over 38 years of experience in progressively more senior roles from General Manager to COO. He has worked in precious and base metals systems, at both open pit and underground operations in North America and internationally, including periods in Australia, Papua New Guinea, USA and Madagascar. This work has been performed for both senior and junior companies including Superior Gold, Placer Dome Inc., Aur Resources Inc., Inco Ltd., Cominco Ltd., Dynatec Corp, Alexis Minerals Inc., Chieftain Metals and Titan Mining. During his career, Keith has demonstrated expertise in several key areas including project development, technical studies, operating efficiencies and optimizing operations, cost control, and managing budgets for improved financial performance. Keith holds a Bachelor of Science in Mining Engineering and an M.B.A. from the University of Alberta, is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario.
Replay transcript excerpt
Hello, everyone, welcome to Reunion Gold's Live Investment Summit today, hosted by SIXX. Good morning or good afternoon, depending on where you're signing in in the world. I'm Romeo and I'm joined today by the company's COO, Keith Boyle, and the company's Vice President of Exploration, Justin Van Der Toorn. Today, Justin and Keith will be running through a presentation that will cover, among other things, the company's recently updated mineral resource estimate. A bit of housekeeping, as always, the summit is being recorded and will be available to watch afterwards on both Six.com and YouTube. You can submit your questions at any time during the event on the Q&A panel, little chat box on the right-hand bottom side of your screen. We'll get to the questions towards the end, but you can submit them at any time during the presentation. Without further ado, I'm going to go ahead and hand it over to Justin to get things kicked off. Thanks, Romeo. Appreciate it. As Romeo mentioned, we're very excited to be here and talk a little bit about our updated mineral resource. And for those who are a little bit less familiar with the project, give you a bit of an overview of Elko West and where we sit, a little bit about Guyana and what our development plans are going forward. So I'll kick off with the first part of the presentation, then I'll be handing over to Keith, who'll talk through more of the development side of what our plans are going forward. So our obligatory forward-looking cautionary statement, we are gonna make some, obviously some comments about the plans here. So I'm sure the slide that everybody reads in detail. Moving on to the project, we're located in Guyana, part of the Guyana Shield. I'll run through a bit of the overview because I know there's a few people m...
