This is the name of the Mining Analyst Mining Director at PI Financial, our buyers today. He has written research reports on other junior miners. Let's hope this buying is in advance of a report coming out from them.

Eric Zaunscherb joined PI Financial Corp. as a mining analyst in February 2011. He has over twenty-two years – and three cycles – of experience as a mining analyst, including seven years with his own firm generating equity research on the mining industry sold directly to institutional investors on a soft-dollar basis. He has also worked for Canaccord Genuity, Haywood Securities, Raymond James, Scotia Capital Markets, Midland Walwyn (now Merrill Lynch Canada) and Yorkton Securities (now Macquarie Capital).

In his previous life as a geologist Eric designed and implemented mineral exploration programs for various commodities including gold, base metals and uranium in diverse North American environments.

Eric earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from McMaster University and holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He is a member of the CFA Institute, the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, and the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada.