The Contango Business Model: An Interview With Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse
Join Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse, President & CEO, for a conversation about Contango ORE's innovative business model. He explains his perspective on why the company is poised to give investors leverage to gold throughout this nascent bull market.
Mr. Van Nieuwenhuyse was appointed to serve as President, Chief Executive Officer, and director of the Company effective January 6, 2020. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Trilogy Metals Inc. from January 2012 until December 2019. Between May 1999 and January of 2012, he served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of NOVAGOLD, Inc, a company that he founded. He served as the Vice President of Exploration for Placer Dome from 1990 to 1997. Mr. Van Nieuwenhuyse holds a Candidature degree in Science from Université de Louvain, Belgium and a Master of Science degree in Geology from the University of Arizona. Mr. Van Nieuwenhuyse currently serves on the board of directors of Alexco Resource Corp. He served on the board of directors of Sandfire Resources America, Inc. (formerly, Tintina Resources Inc.) from 2008 until 2016. Mr. Van Nieuwenhuyse has over forty years of experience in the minerals mining industry and brings significant industry and technical knowledge to the Company.
Replay transcript excerpt
So good morning, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us wherever in the world you're signing in from today. Today I'm going to be chatting with Rick Van Nuynhuysek, Intango Ores CEO, President and Director. Great to have you today, Rick. Good to be back on. Awesome. Before we get into questions, I got some really brief housekeeping to run through, so bear with me, won't be long. The event is being recorded today and the replay will be made available in a few hours. Please feel free to share along once you have it. Should be in your inbox, honestly, by about midday. This is also an interactive event. There's a chat button on the bottom right of your screen. Please feel free to ask a question at any time during the event. Once I get through my questions for Rick, we can get to some audience questions. Probably gonna be about a half hour today. So if for whatever reason we don't get to your question, or it's just something we, it's outside of the scope of today's conversation, we'll still make sure the Contango team gets back to you as soon as possible. So they'll get that transcript to the chat. So please do ask questions regardless, and somebody will get back to you either today live or quickly afterwards over email. All right, that's enough out of me. Let's get into the protein. So I wanted to get right into it, Rick. For the audience in the room today, can you give a quick recap of where Contango Ore is today and how we got there. Sure, Romeo. So Contango Ore found, working in Alaska, we found a nice high-grade 1Moz Gold deposit, which is good grade. It was potentially open pittable. We got it to a pretty feasibility level of study. And then in 2020, we entered into an agreement with Kenross to process the ore at their Fort Knox mill. They had excess capacity at...
