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THE TEAM

Leadership

Meet The Team

Our experienced team of mining professionals, technical experts, and strategic advisors brings decades of combined experience in mineral exploration and corporate development.

Directors

Mike England

CEO & Director

Mr. England has been involved in the public markets since 1983, beginning his career working at the Vancouver Stock Exchange as a floor trader. Since 1995, Mr. England has been directly involved with public companies in various roles, including investor relations, directorships and senior officer positions. To date, Mr. England has been directly responsible for raising in excess of $60-million for mineral exploration and acquisitions.

Will Rascan

President & Director

Mr. Rascan brings 30 years’ experience in the investment brokerage/capital markets industry, currently as President & CEO of Nova Mentis Life Science Corp (formerly Liberty Leaf Holdings) and previous to that, as CEO of Weststar Resources. As CEO of Nova Mentis, some of the recent corporate achievements he oversaw were…first biotech company in the world to obtain Orphan Drug designation in both the EU and United States for the use of psilocybin in the treatment of fragile X syndrome and the granting of a first of its kind in Canada, a Health Canada Phase 2a clinical trial investigating the effects of psilocybin on the cognitive and behavioral symptoms associated with fragile X. During his tenure at Liberty Leaf, Mr. Rascan oversaw all aspects of the business which included a fundamental change of business into the cannabis sector, successfully shepherding its Health Canada cultivation and processing license and growing the company to $100mm mkt cap.

Tracy Hughes

Director

Ms. Hughes is a seasoned entrepreneur and influential capital markets leader with over 30 years of professional experience. Tracy founded and serves as Executive Director of the Critical Minerals Institute (CMI), an influential think-tank known for its weekly Technology Metals Report and annual CMI Summit, which fosters collaboration and strategic alignment among industry leaders and policymakers worldwide. She also serves as Founder, CEO, and Director of InvestorNews Inc.(1) a premier digital media platform that attracts over 120 million annual hits and has worked with thousands of publicly traded companies across North America, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Ms. Hughes leverages extensive expertise gained from previous roles, including co-founding REE Stocks PLC, a FTSE-recognized rare earth indices company, and serving as a principal partner at boutique investment bank Weslosky & Cowans Ltd. Tracy is widely recognized for advancing innovation and strategic partnerships within the global investment community.

Management & Advisors

Danae Voormeij

Chief Geologist

Ms. Voormeij is an exploration geologist with over twenty years of hands-on experience exploring for gold and copper in Africa, South Pacific and the Americas. She led the geological team that discovered a multi-million gold deposit at Dugbe, in Liberia, West Africa, for AIM-listed Hummingbird Resources, and she is a board member with Miata Metals and with Sky Gold Corp.

Leon Ho

CPA

CFO

Mr. Ho is a chartered professional accountant working at Cross Davis & Company LLP, a chartered professional accountant firm providing accounting services to publicly listed entities, primarily in the mining sector. Mr. Ho works directly with mining chief executive officers and directors, assisting with their regulatory and accounting needs.

Robert Weicker

Technical Advisor

Mr. Weicker is a geologist with more than thirty years of experience in all aspects of the minerals exploration and mining industry. Mr. Weicker has worked for both major (Asarco, Noranda, Lac Minerals) and junior mining companies and has his own independent consulting company specializing in exploration, management and administrative roles. His experience includes development and production of the largest gold mine in Canada, development and production of an open pit zinc operation, development of an underground gold mine, and numerous exploration projects for precious, base, and industrial metals. He has authored or co-authored prefeasibility studies, feasibility studies, assessment reports, valuation studies, 43-101 reports (both domestically and internationally) and technical reports and reviews for the TSX-Venture and AIM exchanges.

Mackenzie (Mac) Watson

Technical Advisor

Mr. Watson, B.Sc., P.Eng., has over 50 years of experience in exploration, finance, development, and operations in the mining industry. Mr. Watson has spent his career in the junior mining sector, notably serving as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Lynx Canada Exploration Ltd. until 1985, then as CEO for Freewest Resources Inc. until its acquisition by Noranda in 1994. He then served as CEO of Freewest Resources Canada Inc. until its acquisition by Cliffs Natural Resources in 2010. Mac is the first person to receive the Bill Dennis Award for a Canadian Discovery and/or prospecting success twice: first in 1991 for numerous discoveries, and again in 2009 as part of the team responsible for chromite discoveries in the Ring of Fire. He also holds the Quebec Prospector of the Year Award in 1992 for his participation in the discovery of the Pusticamica and Verneuil gold deposits in Quebec. In January 2015, Mr. Watson was inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame.