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Colin Godwin (PhD, P.Eng., P.Geo.) is a Director of Argentex Mining. Since May 2002, Dr. Godwin has been President of Rome Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: RMR), a Canadian-based mining and mineral exploration company evaluating significant gold-silver and porphyry copper-gold deposits in Neuquen Province, Argentina and major porphyry copper-silver deposits in Mexico. He has also served as a director of Rome Resources since June 2000. Recently, Dr. Godwin has conducted exploration programs in a number of countries, including Argentina, Mexico, Canada and the United States. He has also managed drilling projects in North America and property examinations in Latin America, North America and Asia.
Dr. Godwin is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia, where he taught the exploration and geology of mineral deposits from 1975 until he retired in 1999. During his tenure, he specialized in field and laboratory studies of porphyry, epithermal, kimberlite, skarn and volcanogenic mineral deposits. The interpretation of lead isotopes in galena as it relates to mineral exploration was also an academic focus for Dr. Godwin.
An accomplished writer, Dr. Godwin has published more than 100 papers, with approximately 35 of these professionally adjudicated. In 1990, Dr. Godwin received the Duncan R. Derry Medal, the highest award bestowed by the Mineral Deposits Division of the Geological Association of Canada. This honor is awarded annually to one outstanding economic geologist who has made contributions to the science of economic geology in Canada.
Dr. Godwin was a founding director of International Geosystems Ltd. and became involved in the development of the GEOLOG System, one of the first computer-based schemes for capturing and using data from exploration-development work, especially drill holes. | 