Position: Director, President & C.E.O.
A graduate of the University of Bergen, Norway with Cand. Mag. (B.Sc.) in 1977 and Cand. Real. (M.Sc.) in 1980. Mr. Bruland arrived to Canada in 1980 and has more than 30 years exploration and management experience in the industry with major mining companies and junior exploration companies. His work experience includes grassroots and advanced precious and base metals sulphide and oxide projects with metallurgical studies and operation of a 150 tpd flotation plant. He has over 10 years experience in Latin America working in Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Mexico including 4 years as country manager looking after technical, legal and labour issues for a staff of up to 150.
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Position: Director
A graduate of the Universities of Toronto (B.A.Sc. 1957, M.A.Sc. 1958) and British Columbia (Ph.D. 1964), Dr. Sinclair taught Economic Geology and related subjects at the University level for 37 years and has published extensively on mineral deposit-related topics in scientific and technical journals, including co-authoring a text "Applied Mineral Inventory Estimation" . Throughout that period and since, he has consulted internationally on matters related to mineral exploration data interpretation and mineral resource/reserve estimation and has presented numerous short courses for the mineral industry and professional associations. He serves on the board of one other public company.
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Position: Director
Geological engineer, University of British Columbia (B.A.Sc. 1992, M.A.Sc. 1994). Michelle Robinson has twelve years of exploration experience in Canada and Mexico. Currently a resident of Mazatlan, Mexico, she has authored technical papers on volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits and is the recipient of several awards in the mining industry.
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Position: Corporate Secretary
Corporate, securities and business lawyer with over 25 years experience in British Columbia and internationally. He has extensive experience with the acquisition and disposition of assets, corporate structuring and restructuring, regulatory requirements and corporate filings, and corporate governance. Clients have included public companies listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, the Toronto Stock Exchange, the OTC Bulletin Board and NASDAQ. Involved in a number of professional and community activities, Mr. Harris has been an instructor at the Professional Legal Training Course for articling students sponsored by the Law Society of British Columbia on the subject of corporate and securities law. Mr. Harris was also a Founding Member of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Vancouver Stock Exchange. Apart from his legal education, Mr. Harris has also completed a graduate course in business at the London School of Economics.
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Position: Director
Ken McLean graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a Bachelor of Commerce specializing in computer science and quantitative analysis. He articled with an International accounting firm and eventually became a partner in the audit division responsible for the mining and forestry clients as well as owner operated businesses in the Vancouver office. He then formed his own public accounting firm providing business, accounting, computer and tax advice to owner operated businesses and small mining companies. He has been in public practice for more than forty years. He is also the treasurer of a large non-profit organization.
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Position: Director
Mr. Elgee is currently in private legal practice in British Columbia. Prior to going into private practice, he was President and director of a mining and exploration company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange for three years. He previously served 15 years as corporate counsel with a public mining company where he was responsible for all legal affairs of the company. He has also held other senior positions with public companies in British Columbia as well as positions as in-house legal counsel for two large resource companies in Ontario. He has been a member of the British Columbia bar since 1982.