Pierre believes and has investment in Noront. Why Noront??

Who is Pierre??

Pierre Lassonde is President of Newmont Mining, the world's largest gold producer, a role he assumed in 2002 following the merger of Newmont, Normandy Mining, and Franco-Nevada. Franco was founded in 1982 by Lassonde and his partner, Seymour Schulich, and the three-way merger they helped craft was a direct response to the hedging posture of AngloGold, which had bid for Normandy, a company in which Franco had a large investment. While Schulich remains an active director and spends much of his time on Newmont Capital business, Lassonde is Newmont's day-to-day operator, the public point man, and widely acknowledged as the gold industry's foremost spokesman.

An engineer by training, Lassonde began his career as a cost engineer at Bechtel, and later was a Sr. Planning Analyst with Rio Algom. In 1980 he started managing money and was a highly successful fund manager, running the mining assets in Beutel Goodman's Dynamic Fund, making that fund the top performing North American gold fund in 1987 and again in 1989

April 12, 2008 Pierre was quoted in the Financial post with saying, "He'd be the most surprised person in the world if this didn't get bigger."

He is a part owner of our Noront, along with other heavy hitters.

We are in good company.