Ms. Lee-Sheriff brings 25 years of industry experience to her role as Executive Chair of C2C Gold Corp. Ms. Lee-Sheriff is also the Founder of Newfoundland.Gold, a strategic marketing alliance promoting the progressive jurisdiction of Newfoundland Labrador and the regions leaders in exploration & mining. She also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Golden Predator Mining Corp., President of Group 11 Technologies and President of the Yukon Mint Corporation. With a strong commitment to social responsibility and community engagement she has successfully negotiated and implemented socio-economic and exploration agreements with indigenous governments plus implemented numerous innovative programs to ensure community involvement in corporate projects. Ms. Lee-Sheriff is a member of the PDAC Indigenous Affairs Committee, holds a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) degree from Queens University (1986), and is a recipient of the Queen’s Jubilee Commemorative Medal awarded for outstanding achievements by Canadians.
Over 10 years of experience in mining and capital markets; worked as a production and exploration geologist in Timmins, Kirkland Lake, Red Lake, Norway and Ghana. Later worked as a mining analyst with Pinetree Capital. Founder, Director and Executive Chairman of Goldspot Discoveries Inc. (TSX.V: SPOT) and also currently serves as a Director for Xtra-Gold ResourcesCorp. (TSE: XTG)
Mr. Collins has an exceptional skill set in project development and analysis which is supported by a wide industry network. Through his work as a geologist and running a mining engineering office in Vancouver he has developed an understanding of numerous mineral camps and deposit types around the world.
His experience steps beyond mineral deposits with a breath of experience in the feasibility process and the pitfalls of project construction and optimization. With over 14 years as an office and director of public companies, Michael understands intricacies of building corporate structure, marketing and value accretion. Michael graduated with a BSc. Honour from Dalhousie University in 1996 and is an accredited P.Geo. with EGBC.
Shawn Ryan began his career in exploration in the early 80’s working with the Kidd Creek Exploration geophysics team and various other local contracting firms. In 1996, while living in Dawson City, Yukon, he decided to try his luck as a prospector. He focused his prospecting in the Dawson District looking for the sources of alluvial gold. His research led to perfecting a deeper soil sampling technique that became a Yukon industry standard.
Blake has 15 years’ experience in the mining industry including 10 years dedicated to the mining and natural resource sector in Australia with Rio Tinto, BMA Metals (subsidiary of BHP) and Santos Ltd. Gaining first-hand knowledge, culture, and an understanding of mining operations he then made the move from Australia to Canada and has been instrumental in consolidating significant exploration land packages and financing their development for private resource exploration companies in British Columbia.
Project Geologist at Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
Born in St. John’s and raised in Torbay, NL.
Schooled at Bishop Field, McDonald Drive Elementary and Junior High and Prince of Wales Collegiate, graduated 1981.
1986: B.Sc. (Honours Geology) Memorial University of Newfoundland.
1989: M.Sc. (Geology) Memorial University of Newfoundland.
1995: Ph.D. (Geology) Queens University, Kingston, Ontario.
1996: Post-Doctoral fellow, Queen’s University.
1997-2000: Research Scientist, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa.
2000-2004: Research Scientist, Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office, Iqaluit.
2005-2008: Diamond Geologist (Northwest Territories and Nunavut), Indian and Northern Affairs, Yellowknife.
2008- 2021: Project Geologist (gold), Geological Survey of NL, St. John’s.
Replay transcript excerpt
Hello, my name is Janet Leigh-Sheriff. I'm the founder of Newfoundland.gold and I want to welcome everybody to our 1st Virtual Investor Day focused on the emerging gold camp in Newfoundland. We have a great panel lined up today and great panels for the next few days. And I don't wanna take up too much of your time. I wanna get right into everything and introduce our 1st speaker, which is Alex Smith, an Assistant Deputy Minister from the government of Newfoundland and Labrador. But 1st I want to thank everybody who's helped make this possible. In 30 days we've put together a great lineup of 9 companies and an amazing team that's pulled this all together. So I thank them and special thanks to Sean Ryan and Mike Collins of Exploits and Colin Cattell of Newfound Gold who really helped pull this group together and we couldn't have done it without them. Enjoy the conference and remember, if you've registered for day 1, please also register for day 2 and day 3. You'll find some amazing keynote speakers starting with Sean and today, Denny Laboulaye, who really started it all with Newfound and then wrapping it up with Rich Gold Farm. Again, welcome. And Alex, I'm handing it to you now and I wish everybody great success and a great season. Thank you, Janet and Newfoundland.gov for the invitation to virtually welcome everybody to the province and provide a brief overview and introduction to the jurisdiction. For those of you who are unfamiliar, Newfoundland and Labrador is, funnily enough, comprised of the island of Newfoundland and Labrador on the mainland. We have a population of about 500, 000 people. The province's capital is St. John's, the most easterly city in North America. It has an international airport, typically serving 1.5 million passengers per year with direct fl...
