 | We've built Aurelio around a team of senior geologists with extensive experience and mine-finding success in both large and small corporations.
Dr. Fred W. Warnaars
Chairman of the Board of Directors
| | | Over the past twelve years, Mr. Warnaars' companies have acquired, explored, developed, joint ventured or sold 15 gold, silver and copper properties in Mexico and Central America to junior, mid-tier and major mining companies. He gained his corporate experience as an employee with Cyprus Minerals, Exxon Minerals, Kennecott Copper and Behre Dolbear. His distinguished career includes discovery of five porphyry copper-molybdenum deposits in North America and several base and precious metal deposits in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Hispaniola and Latin America. |
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David C. Jonson
Chief Geologist
| | | Mr. Jonson has worked as an independent consulting geologist for the past 27 years, focusing on design and management of regional and mine site exploration programs, property evaluations, and ore reserve calculations. He previously served in management positions with Newmont Mining, Climax Molybdenum (AMAX) and Freeport McMoRan Minerals, specializing in precious metals exploration programs and mine geology. During the course of a long and distinguished career, he has discovered several precious and base metal deposits that have been profitably mined, as well as ten other significant mineral deposits in the feasibility or development stages. |
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Earl H. Detra, CA Professional Geologist
Consulting Geologist
| | | Mr. Detra has over 30 years experience in exploration and mine geology, with work in Colorado, Nevada, Alaska, Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Russia, Sweden and the Southwest Pacific. He has most recently been an independent consultant, though he has previously worked with Amax Gold, Cominco, Noranda and Texasgulf. |
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David C. Knight
Director
| | | David C. Knight led a team of geologists who were credited with discoveries of five gold projects with aggregate resources of more than six million ounces, the most significant being the 3+ million ounce West Leeville gold deposit on the Carlin Trend.
Mr. Knight has over 25 years of experience in target generation, development and management of surface and underground exploration programs, and evaluation of mineral deposits. During the course of his career, he has worked for a number of mid-tier and major gold mining companies, including Amselco, Rio Tinto, Westmont, Atlas, Texasgulf and Noranda, where he managed exploration for and evaluation of deep high-grade gold and bulk mineable precious metal deposits in the western United States. Mr. Knight was one of the founders of Tone Resources Ltd., which was acquired by US Gold in 2006 for its property position in Nevada.
Mr. Knight earned his B.S. and M.S. Geology degrees from the University of Arizona and University of Manitoba, and is a Registered Professional Geologist in Wyoming. |
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William L. Oppenheimer
Director
| | | William L. Oppenheimer has over 25 years experience in mineral exploration, mine operations and project evaluations. During his career he has worked as a mine geologist at Barrick's Goldstrike mine in Nevada and Montana Talc Company in Montana, and as an exploration geologist for Sunshine Mining, Nord Resources, Atlas Precious Metals, MAPCO Minerals and CONOCO Uranium.
Mr. Oppenheimer was previously a Senior Geologist at The Winters Company, where he evaluated proposed and operating copper, gold and silver mining projects worldwide. He is currently Procurement Manager for M3 Engineering & Technology in Tucson, Arizona, where he is involved in feasibility studies, engineering and construction of mining projects in Mexico, Chile, Peru, Canada and the United States.
Mr. Oppenheimer received his B.A. in Geology from Tufts University and an M.S. in Geology from the Colorado School of Mines. He is a registered Professional Geologist (Idaho) and a Qualified Person for NI 43-101 evaluations. |
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