Corporate
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John Duncan, P.Geo
Mr. J. Duncan is a geologist who began his career on the staff of the Arizona Geological Survey in Tucson, Arizona. In 1993, he resigned his position to join as a founding partner in Altar Resources and to serve as a consultant to the mineral industry.He now has over 10 years experience in exploration, development and mine geology in the Americas.
Mr. Duncan has been a consultant for such companies as BHP, Cyprus Minerals, and for the last several years U.S. Borax. In addition to his Masters of Geology degree, he also holds a B.A. in Business Finance from the University of Texas.
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Terry Massoth, M.S.
Mr. Massoth obtained his geology degrees from the University of Utah in 1977 and 1982, with an M.S. thesis involving interpretation of the depositional environments of surface mineable coal-bearing strata at a 2Mtpa coal mine in NW Colorado. He immediately gained employment with Utah International Inc. and managed several coal exploration projects in the western United States, one eventually becoming a company mine. Following acquisition of UII by BHP Minerals, he continued with international coal and industrial minerals exploration on six continents, ending in 1999 with a three-year assignment to Calgary as project geologist for the Shell Canada-BHP JV feasibility study of the Muskeg River mine, currently part of the 150,000 barrels/day of synthetic crude oil Athabasca Oil Sands Project.
From 2000 onwards, Mr. Massoth has been an independent consulting geologist based in Salt Lake City, Utah, focusing on fossil energy fuels (coal, oil sands, oil shale). He has held long-term contracts with major and junior mining and exploration companies (BHP-Billiton, Western Oil Sands, Marathon Oil, Laurus Energy), as well as the State Trust Lands Administration of Utah, and several other colleague consulting geologists.
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Tom McCandless, Ph.D., P.Geo
Dr. Tom McCandless has over 30 years of mineral exploration experience, specializing in diamond exploration. He has a Master of Science and Ph.D. degree in geology, and a wide range of experience that includes employment as Chief Mineralogist for Superior Minerals, Ashton Mining of Canada, and Stornoway Diamonds Corporation. Since 2008 he is a consulting geologist for MCC Geoscience Inc. He is a registered Professional Geologist with APEGBC and a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101. Dr. McCandless has published extensively on the geochemistry of PGE, base metal, gold and diamond deposits, and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta and the University of Arizona.
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Marvin Mitchell, P. Eng.
Mr. Mitchell is an independent technical consultant who received his degree from the Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology in 1968 (formerly Montana School of Mines).
He has over 38 years experience in the mineral exploration industry including 8 years as Exploration Manager for the Minerals Division of Ranger Oil Ltd. and is a registered professional engineer in the Province of British Columbia.
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Gerald Rayner, P. Eng.
Mr. Rayner is an independent technical consultant who has over 40 years of experience in the mining industry and has practiced his profession on every continent except Antarctica. The bulk of his time has been spent in Western North America including Mexico and Central America, in Australia and the South Pacific, including Indonesia and other parts of Asia, and in various South American countries.
Mr. Rayner's primary areas of expertise lie in reconnaissance exploration and in the evaluation of mineral properties at the earlier stages of exploration and development. While with Kennecott, Mr. Rayner was in charge of exploration in Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific where efforts during this period resulted in the discovery of several porphyry copper deposits including the Ok Tedi Mine.
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Bruce Duncan
Mr. R.B. Duncan, currently the president and CEO of United Bolero Development Corp. (UNB:TSXV), has over 25 years of capital market and brokerage industry experience, including eight years with Gordon Capital Corporation.
Mr. Duncan is also the President of West Oak Capital Partners Inc. West Oak provides strategic advisory services which include: identifying and qualifying merger and acquisition candidates; raising capital for clients; and advising on going public transactions.
Mr. Duncan's client base has included financial services, aviation, mining, oil and gas, logistics, and retail industries.
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