John M. Mirko President, CEO, and Director Mr. Mirko has 40 years of extensive experience in the mining industry. His most recent work was with Roca Mines Inc. as a founding Director for nine years, where he was instrumental in putting into production a 500 tonne per day (TPD) mine and concentrator. He was co-recipient of Association for Mineral Exploration BC's "E.A. Scholtz Medal" (2008) for excellence in mine development, and the Mining Association of BC's "Mining and Sustainability Award" (2009) for Roca Mines' MAX Molybdenum Mine. From 1986 to 2010, Mr. Mirko was a founding Director of Auckland Exploration Inc., Pacific Rim Mining Corp., Frontier Pacific Mining Corp., and Stikine Energy Corp. In addition, he held management positions with Skylark Resources Ltd., Solitare Minerals Corp. and Calypso Uranium Corp. Mr. Mirko has been self-employed since 1977 through his company, Canam Mining Corp., as a mining contractor and prospector involved in the exploration, development and construction of numerous mining projects in 11 countries and the production of mineral resources from five such projects. Mr. Mirko's past clients include Hudson Bay Mining, Corona Corp., Homestake Development, Kennecott, Extotal Resources, Equity Engineering, Stikine Copper and Pioneer Metals. His work included prospecting, geology, geophysics, geochemistry, property evaluation, project management, property acquisition, catering, camp/road/airstrip construction, mine development, mine rehabilitation, concentrator construction and operations, contract negotiations, financing and strategic planning and development. |
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Feisal Somji, BSc, MBA Director Mr. Somji has 20 years of experience in mineral exploration and development ranging from grassroots exploration to mine development. Mr. Somji has acted as an officer and director of several public companies involved in diamond, gold, silver, copper, base metal and platinum assets in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Philippines, Peru and Africa. Most recently Mr. Somji was the founder, President and CEO of Rio Alto Mining Ltd, with it's La Arena gold/copper mine in Peru, having achieved commercial production in 2011, with a current annual production rate of approximately 150,000 ounces of gold from 4,000,000 tonnes of ore. Mr. Somji provides expertise in areas of corporate finance and governance where he has raised over $125 million and helped several projects go public on the Canadian Venture Exchange. Mr. Somji has a B.Sc. from the University of British Columbia and an MBA from Queens University. |
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Dr. Antonio M. ("Mel") de Quadros, P. Eng. Director Dr. de Quadros is a consulting geologist who has been involved for the past 40 years in mineral exploration and development. He has held several positions as an Officer, Director, and Vice President of Exploration of public mining companies. He is currently a Director for Romios Gold Resources Inc. and Northern Platinum. He is a member of CIM as well as a Professional Engineer in Ontario and British Columbia. He graduated from University of London, England with BSc. in geology and chemistry and completed his Ph.D. degree from the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He holds a MSc. in geology from the UCLA. |
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Larry Okada, CA, CPA, (Wash.) Director Mr. Okada has been involved with a number of public mining companies for 36 years. He is a Chartered Accountant and has been in public practice since 1974 with extensive public finance and accounting experience with Deloitte and Touche, Staley Okada and Partners and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He presently serves as the Chief Financial Officer ("CFO") for BCGold Corp and RedQuest Capital Corp (CPC) and is the Acting CFO of Africo Resources Ltd. as well as being a director and serving as chairman of the audit committee of Forum Uranium Corp. and Revett Minerals Corp. |
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Ernest ("Ernie") S. Peters Director Mr. Peters has over 40 years of experience in the mining industry, having been involved with the formation, management, and financing of a number of public resources companies. Mr. Peters' experience in the resource sector includes exploration, development and production management of projects in Canada, United States, Brazil, Mexico and Australia. |
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John Fiorino Director Mr. Fiorino currently sits on the board of several private companies and is currently the president and CEO of Infinite Merchant Solutions Inc. Mr. Fiorino is a Financier, Businessman , Investor and Consultant with over 10 years experience in assisting private and public companies with corporate operations, capital development, financing, and strategic advisory services. He has concluded mining transactions involving Gold and other commodities in North and South America. Mr. Fiorino has been instrumental in the restructuring and recapitalization of AM Gold Inc. |
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Manuel Octavio Delgado Nachtigall Director Mr. Delgado is a Peruvian citizen. He is a Partner & Director of the RPP Group with over 30 years' experience in telecommunication business in Peru. The RPP Group is a diversified media holding company. Mr. Delgado holds a Bachelor of Business Administration has maintained a business relationship for over five years with BO Consulting focused on mineral exploration. |
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Dennis Cojuco, CA CFO and Corporate Secretary Mr. Cojuco is a graduate of the University of British Columbia (BSc. Chemistry and Diploma in Accounting) and is a Chartered Accountant in British Columbia. Mr. Cojuco articled with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from 2006 to 2009 and with Staley, Okada and Partners from 2004 until the two firms combined in 2006. Mr. Cojuco worked primarily in the mining practice of both firms where he assisted clients in the areas of public financings, mergers and acquisitions, public company reporting and various other areas. Since the fall of 2009, he has been working in senior accounting capacities with junior mining companies, both in the production and exploration stage. |
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Ken Konkin, P. Geo. Geological Consultant - Pinaya Project Manager Mr. Konkin has over 30 years of experience managing precious and base metal exploration programs throughout North America, South America, and Russia. Most recently, Mr. Konkin was the Project Manager of Pretivm's Snowfield and Brucejack Projects located in the northwest region of British Columbia. Mr. Konkin was instrumental in advancing the Snowfield and Brucejack Projects and is a co-recipient, as part of Pretivm Resources, to receive the 2013 Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada "Bill Dennis Award". From 1993 to 2010 Mr. Konkin worked for Silver Standard Resources in Peru, Argentina, Mexico and British Columbia. Mr. Konkin holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of British Columbia. |
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Fernando Pickmann Manager-Corporate Development-Peru Mr. Pickmann is a senior mining and commercial lawyer with over 18 years of experience. He is currently a partner of Gallo Barrios Pickmann Law Firm, Peru and Professor of Mining Law and Strategic Alliance at the University of Lima. He has managed the listings and financings of several junior mining companies with the Lima Stock Exchange ("BVL") and is currently a Director of Andean Gold Corp., Estrella Gold Corp. and President and Director of Southern Legacy Minerals Corp. |
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Adam Murphy Corporate Operations Mr. Murphy administers Rokmaster's corporate operations. He has over ten years of management experience across multiple industries including mining, interactive entertainment, and hospitality. From 2007 to 2010 Mr. Murphy worked as an executive manager for a mining services contractor. |
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Mark Rebagliati, P. Eng. Chief Geological Consultant Mr. Rebagliati is a consulting geological engineer and has held positions with a number of major mining companies. He graduated from Michigan Technological University in 1969 with a B.Sc. in Geological Engineering. In 1986, Mark formed Rebagliati Geological Consulting Ltd. based in Vancouver, Canada. As a mineral exploration consultant with a portfolio of ideas he developed an association with the Hunter Dickinson Group exploring for PGE in South Africa and Brazil and epithermal, massive sulphide and porphyry deposits in North and South America, the Pacific Islands and Asia. He played a leading role in the discovery of the Mount Milligan, Southern Star and Kemess South porphyry copper/gold deposits in British Columbia, a cluster of polymetallic VMS deposits at Campo Morado, Mexico, the Pebble East porphyry copper/gold/silver/moly deposit in Alaska and the Xietongmen and New-Tongmen porphyry copper/gold deposits in China. Mr. Rebagliati is the recipient of several mining industry awards including the BC Chamber of Mines "H.H. Huestis Award" (1992) for excellence in mineral exploration, the "Bill Dennis Prospector of the Year Award" (1997) from PDAC (Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada), a co-recipient of the "Thayer Lindsey International Discovery Award" from PDAC (2007), the "Robert M. Dreyer Award" (2008) from the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration to recognize outstanding achievements in applied economic geology accomplished through commercial exploration or development of mineral deposits, and most recently the "Colin Spence Award" (2009) from the Association for Mineral Exploration BC for global exploration excellence. |
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Dr. Jim Oliver, PGeo. Geological Consultant Dr. Oliver has more than 25 years exploration experience specializing in global mineral deposit evaluations and early to advanced stage project valuations, with particular emphasis on belt, regional and detailed geological mapping programs, lithologic, structural and alteration mapping, Archean and epithermal gold, porphyry copper-molybdenum-gold, SedEx and REE mineral systems. Dr. Oliver is currently the Senior V.P. (consulting) of Geology with Hunter Dickinson Inc. |
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Luis Igreda, PGeo. Geological Consultant Mr. Igreda is a consulting geologist with more than 40 years of experience in mineral exploration, development and production. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Geological Engineering from National Mayor University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru in 1972 and is registered as a Practicing member of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario. Mr. Ingreda's clients include Endeavour Silver Corp. in Mexico, Roca Mines Inc. in Canada and Mexico, Aurelian Resources Inc. in Ecuador, Geomaque Explorations Ltd. in Mexico and Honduras and he worked as a mine geologist over 20 years for Cerro de Pasco Corp. (Centromin Peru), Minas Buenaventura, S.A. and Perubar, S.A. |
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Harvey Tremblay Advisor Mr. Tremblay is the founder and President of Hy-Tech Drilling Ltd. based in Smithers, BC. A northerner all his life, Mr. Tremblay grew up in Kitimat and eventually moved to Smithers in 1977 to raise his family. In 1991 Mr. Tremblay founded Hy-Tech Drilling and built it up from a single drill operation to a fleet of 25 drills operating throughout Canada and Europe. Hy-Tech Drilling clients include the Lundin Group, Goldcorp, Seabridge, Xstrata, Rubicon and Dennison. Working closely with his engineering team, Harvey helped design the unique patented diamond drill that is exclusive to Hy-Tech Drilling. Prior to starting Hy-Tech Drilling, Mr. Tremblay worked in every area of the mining industry including camp construction, soil sampling, claim staking and diamond drilling. Mr. Tremblay is active in the community as a sponsor, volunteer and mentor. He is currently a Director of the Canadian Diamond Drilling Association (CDDA) and is a strong believer in developing and fostering a culture of safety and environmental awareness. He received the "David Barr Award" (2010) for leadership and innovation in mineral exploration, health and safety from the Association for Mineral Exploration B.C. |

