Mr. Bojtos is a Professional Engineer with over 30 years of worldwide experience in the mining industry. He is a mining executive with entrepreneurial commercial and public company management skills coupled with a background in all facets of the industry from exploration and acquisitions through production financing and investor relations. Over his career Mr. Bojtos has visited and evaluated properties in 80 countries and has been involved with operations in 30 of them. He has carried out 17 significant corporate acquisitions mergers or sales has participated in the development building or reopening of 19 mines and has been involved in the operation of 24 producing mines. Mr. Bojtos was the regional exploration manager at Kerr Addison Mines Ltd. (Noranda Group) at the time of the staking and discovery of what eventually became Inmet's Troilus gold-copper mine in Quebec. For the past six years Mr. Bojtos has been an active independent director of several public North American resource companies producing precious metals in Australia Brazil Colombia Mexico Scandinavia and West Africa as well as exploring in South Africa China south-east Asia and throughout the Americas. |