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Mr. Sandidge is a Registered Professional Geologist in Washington State, and has a Master's Degree in Geological Sciences from the University of Texas at El Paso. He has worked as an exploration geologist for more than 20 years, having worked in more than 50 countries. His broad range of experience includes porphyry copper, copper-gold systems in Mexico and South America and southwest Pacific, IOCG (Iron Oxide Copper Gold) in Chile, epithermal precious metal systems in Latin America, sedimentary-hosted base metal deposits in Latin America, ultramafic-mafic base metal-PGM deposits in Scandinavia and northwest Russian Federation, and sediment-hosted uranium deposit types in western United States. He has authored or co-authored more than 15 scientific articles relating to structural geology, metallogenesis, and tectonics. Mr. Sandidge has affiliations with the Society of Economic Geologists, the Society of Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, is a qualified person under NI 43-101 (Canadian National Instrument Qualified Person standards), and is a Washington State Professional Geologist. | 