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 RICHARD NEMIS B.A., LLB |
| President and CEO, Director |
Highlights
Born in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada 1938
Education
St. Charles College, Sudbury, Ontario -University of Ottawa graduated with BA degree. Graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School and called to the bar in the Province of Ontario as Barrister and Solicitor in 1968.
History
President and CEO Noront Resources Ltd. Mr. Nemis since 1980 has been the President of Noront Resources Ltd. Noront has funded the exploration and discovery of what may be the largest and richest antimony deposit in the world. The mine was put into production but due to poor antimony prices, was put on a care and standby basis by Roycefield Resources.
Mr. Nemis was president and CEO of Central Crude Ltd. until its merger to become River Gold Mines Inc. During the period in which Mr. Nemis was its President, Central Crude discovered, developed and financed over $35 million to further develop two deposits. The first gold deposit being the Eagle River Deposit near Mishibishu Lake (south of Hemlo, Ontario) where River Gold is currently in operation and secondly, to delineate the Moss Lake Deposit, Thunder Bay area, Ontario, where reserves were estimated at 92 million tones, grading .0265 Au/ton.
"Mr. Nemis was associated with a Mr. V.N. Harbinson and associated with a number of the Harbinson group of companies, Consolidated Durham Mines, Spooner Mines and Oils, Dominion Explorers, Noble Mines and Oils, Onaping Resources to name a few."
Mr. Nemis currently is a senior member and part owner of the largest structural steel firm in northern Ontario, operating since 1946 out of Sudbury. |
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| JOHN HARVEY P. Eng. |
| Chief Operating Officer |
Highlights
Formerly Executive Vice President, Mr. Harvey has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of Noront.
Mr. Harvey worked with Noranda Inc. from the early 1960s and was President of Noranda Exploration from 1982 until his early retirement in 1994. He was also President of Hemlo Gold Mines from 1989 until 1992. Before Noranda, Mr. Harvey was VP Exploration for Mattagami Lake Mines which merged with Noranda in 1982.
Mr. Harvey is actively involved with the McFaulds Lake Base Metal Camp through his affiliation with Noront Resources Ltd., as well as a board member of the following Ring of Fire companies; Tribute Minerals Inc., Canadian Ore Bodies Inc., Freewest Resources Canada Inc. and GoldEye Explorations Ltd. |
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| KEVIN FEENEY |
| Chief Financial Officer |
Highlights
Mr. Feeney brings significant financial and strategic experience to the Noront team.
Most recently, in his capacity as Vice President, North American Investments, Finance and Operations for Sun Life Financial Corporation, he was responsible for designing and implementing processes to support Sun Life's North American investment business.
Mr. Feeney was also a corporate design specialist in his role as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Labatt Breweries of Canada (Interbrew S.A.) and was a key member of the Interbrew global acquisition team that completed the USD$11B transaction with Ambev, that resulted in a significant consolidation of the global beer industry.
Mr. Feeney also held various positions with the Trimark group of companies, including that of Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice- President for Trimark Investment Management Inc. |
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| JAMES E. MUNGALL |
| Chief Geologist |
Highlights
Dr. Mungall joined the Noront team as a consultant in October of 2007. He has been appointed Chief Geologist.
Dr. Mungall's professional experience has included consulting and research work on magmatic Ni-Cu-Co-PGE deposits, chromitite, magmatic Fe-Ti-V and IOCG and rareelement granites.
Dr. Mungall received M.Sc. and Ph.D degrees from McGill University and has worked extensively in the exploration business as a consultant since 1996. In 1999 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Economic Geology at the University of Toronto. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005 and was named Norman Keevil Chair of Ore Genesis in 2007.
He has published extensively on the magmatic sulfide deposits of the Sudbury and Raglan camps and has edited four books or special journal issues on Ni-Cu-Co-PGE deposits. |
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| CARMEN DIGES |
| Vice-President, Legal and Business Affairs |
Highlights
Ms. Diges has been Corporate Secretary of Noront since 2003. A partner at McMillan LLP, she has also been lead counsel to the company during that time.
She now assumes the responsibilities of Vice President, Legal and Business Affairs for Noront. Ms. Diges brings more than fifteen years of legal experience in the mining sector, encompassing strong international, capital markets, project development, corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions skills.
She has worked on transactions throughout six continents and her clients have included governments, Canadian and international issuers, investors and underwriters. |
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| NEIL NOVAK |
| Vice-President Corporate and Aboriginal Affairs, Director |
Highlights
Mr. Novak originally joined the Board of Noront in 2001 and was appointed VP Exploration in November 2007. In recognition of his long-standing relationship with Aboriginal peoples throughout his career, Neil Novak has been appointed Vice-President Corporate and Aboriginal Affairs for Noront.
Mr. Novak's professional experience has spanned exploration projects in uranium, gold, diamonds and other precious metals, as well as base metals.
Mr. Novak started his career as project geologist for the Canadian operations of Australian based uranium explorer Pancontinental Mining Ltd. between 1977 and 1983. In 1983 he left Pancontinental and formed a private consulting company, Nominex Ltd., and as managing director of Nominex, Mr. Novak became involved with and managed various North American and International exploration assignments, including base metal and diamond projects in the James Bay Lowlands of Northern Ontario, in the area now known as the "Ring of Fire".
Mr. Novak helped form (in 1992) and eventually became an active board member and senior officer of Spider Resources Inc., in 1995 and remained as such through to early 1999. Neil was re-elected to the Board of Spider in September 1999, and was appointed President and CEO of Spider in June 2005.
In addition to being a board member of Noront and Spider, Mr. Novak is a member of the board of directors of other public companies including Simberi Mining Corporation, and Cadillac Ventures Inc. |
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| DAVID GRAHAM |
| Vice-President, Special Projects, Director |
Highlights
Mr Graham joined the board of Noront in December 2006, and has been appointed Vice-President, Special Projects for Noront.
In 1986 Mr. Graham became President of R. Bruce Graham and Associates Ltd. a mining consulting firm that has served the mineral industry since 1956. Mr. Graham has over twenty five years of experience in the industry and has served as a director and manager of a number of private and public natural resource and mining concerns.
His relevant experience has been in the fields of base and precious metals, uranium and industrial minerals and materials. Mr. Graham has worked in Canada, the United States, Scandinavia and Africa. |
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| PATRICK CHANCE M.Sc., P.Eng. |
| Project Manager, Windfall Lake |
Highlights
Patrick Chance has more than 40 years world-wide experience in the minerals industry from regional mapping through exploration, development and mining of metals, industrial minerals, aggregates and coal. He has worked for small and large corporations and consultants and has himself consulted to both the private sector and government.
He gained a technicians diploma from the Haileybury School of Mines, followed by a B.Sc (Applied Science) in Geological Engineering and an M.Sc. in petrology from Queen's and the University of Western Ontario respectively. He is registered as a Professional Engineer in Ontario.
At Tintaya, Peru he developed the initial reserve on a complex skarn deposit through the judicious application of a limited drilling budget while meeting stringent quality and time specifications. At Mina el Limon, Nicaragua, a Cuban and Eastern Bloc-trained technical team was adapted to Canadian exploration and development practises, allowing the team to maintain reserves for more than a decade. In 2001, with a fellow consultant, he developed a programme that allowed First Nations communities along the west coast of James Bay to successfully collect kimberlite indicator mineral samples for and to the prevailing specifications of the Ontario government. The work covered a 400 kilometre square portion of the James Bay Lowland. In the early 1990's a review of Ontario's map depiction of claims provided the conceptual framework for the delivery of successive versions of CLAIMAPS, Ontario's award-winning, on-line mining title, enquiry system.
He has completed regional mapping in desert environments along the eastern frontiers of Iran, where local tribesmen and villagers became integral to the project providing logistic support and knowledge of local geology and mineral occurrences, allowing the project to be completed with greater efficiency and effectiveness. He has successfully engaged First Nations in Central America and Canada developing an appreciation of the mutual benefits of well executed exploration and development programmes.
He currently manages Noront's Windfall Lake underground exploration project that combines the skills and ingenuity of mining and civil contractors, engineers, geologists, technicians and environmental scientists to effectively explore a complex gold-bearing property within a rigorous permitting and regulatory environment.
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| PAUL PARISOTTO |
| Director |
Highlights
Mr. Parisotto is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of Arizona Star Resource Corp., which was acquired by Barrick Gold Corporation for $773 million and Blacksands Petroleum, Inc., a publicly traded US company focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of conventional and unconventional oil in western Canada. Blacksands owns a 75% interest in Access Energy, a private company of which Mr. Parisotto is also President and Chief Executive officer.
Mr. Parisotto has been President of Coniston Investment Corp. from October 1999 to the present. Coniston is a private firm specializing in providing investment banking services including the raising of equity and debt and providing mergers and acquisitions advisory services to small market capitalization companies which are either private or public.
Prior to these current responsibilities, Mr. Parisotto was Manager, Original Listings at The Toronto Stock Exchange from 1985 to 1994. During his tenure at the TSE he was involved in the listing process for over 250 companies.
He has also been Senior Vice-President, Corporate Finance for Marleau, Lemire Securities Inc. from January 1995 to January 1998 and was Vice-President and Director, Investment Banking for HSBC Securities (Canada) Inc. from March 1998 to June 1999. He was also director of Nevada Pacific Gold Ltd., a public company acquired by US Gold Inc. in a share exchange take over bid for over $100 million. |
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| JOHN DOUGLAS BLANCHFLOWER |
| Director |
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University of British Columbia, B.Sc. Honours Geology, 1971. Registered Professional Geoscientist Fellow of the Geological Association of Canada.
Thirty-nine years of professional experience in economic mineral exploration, including: five years of pre-graduate field experience; twelve years as a project and district geologist employed by Canadian Superior Exploration Limited and Sulpetro Mines Limited (formerly St. Joseph Explorations Limited) and twenty-two years as a geological consultant president of Minorex Consulting Ltd.
Specialization in applied mineral exploration for bulk and lode gold-silver, precious metal-bearing volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS), porphyry copper-molybdenum and porphyry copper-gold deposits throughout the North American Cordillera. |
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| MAURICE H. STEKEL |
| Director |
Highlights
Mr. Stekel became a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1958. He was honoured to be elected by the Council of The Institute as a "Life Member" in November 2003.
He was a founding and senior partner in the firm of Birnbaum, Prenick, Stekel & Co., Chartered Accountants. Founded in 1965, their firm was ranked 23rd on the "Bottom Line's Top 30" list in 1991. On June 1, 1993, Mr. Stekel changed his status to "retired partner". He is continuing his consulting under the auspices of his company Mo-Kar Holdings Inc.
Since 1971 he has been a licensed mortgage broker and is president of BPS Management Limited.
Throughout Mr. Stekel's career, he has been extremely involved in various aspects of the mining industry. Also, since 1963, he has been appointed to hold directorships in numerous mining companies. In addition he has held and continues to hold directorships in various other corporations. |
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