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Pierce Carson

 
Board Dir., Pres., CEO - Santa Fe Gold Corp
 
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Company Name : Santa Fe Gold Corp
 
Company Website : www.santafegoldcorp.com
 
Company Address : 1128 Pennsylvania NE
Ste. 200, Albuquerque, NM,
United States,
 
Pierce Carson Profile :
Board Dir., Pres., CEO - Santa Fe Gold Corp
 
Pierce Carson Biography :

W. Pierce Carson, PhD joined Santa Fe Gold Corp as President and CEO in the fall of 2003 as part of the Company’s restructuring and reorganization initiative, following a period of engagement as consultant. With Santa Fe Gold, Dr. Carson continues an accomplished international mining career spanning 35 years with extensive experience in directing exploration, development and mining of base metals, precious metals and industrial minerals and in administering public companies. Dr. Carson holds a PhD in Economic and Structural Geology and an MS in Ore Deposits from Stanford University, and a Bachelors Degree in Geology from Princeton University.

Dr. Carson has served with distinction at several world renowned mining conglomerates.

Previous positions held by Dr. Carson include:

President and Director of Mining & Exploration Operations in Australia, Papua New Guinea, USA, Canada, and Mexico for Nord Pacific Ltd.

Vice-President of Exploration, Australia, Asia & US for Nord Resources Corporation

Manager of Precious Metals Exploration, North America, for Kennecott Copper, Inc.

Senior Geologist, Houston; Supervisory Geologist, Perth, Western Australia; Exploration Manager, QueenslandNew South Wales, Australia; Exploration Manager, Uranium and Copper, Australia, for Exxon Minerals, Inc.

Exploration and Mining Career Highlights:

Discovery, financing, and development of the Kurara gold mine in Western Australia with subsequent successful operation

Acquisition, financing, and development of the Girilambone copper property using then-new and technically innovative and highly successful SX-EW processing system

Discovery of Emu South gold mine in Western Australia, joint venture of the property to Western Mining and subsequent sale of interest and $40 million distribution to limited partner investors

Acquisition of the Tabar Islands gold property, in a joint venture with Kennecott

Completion of Ramu nickel pre-feasibility study based on pressure acid leaching

Discovery of Tritton copper deposit using state-of-the-art geophysical methods

Purchase of Kennecott's interest in the Tabar Islands gold project

Acquisition of the Johnson Camp copper mine in the Southwestern United States

Sales of Ramu nickel project, Papua New Guinea and Sierra Rutile titanium mine, Sierra Leone

Arrangement of project debt financing of $42 Million for copper and other mines.

 
Pierce Carson Colleagues :
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Lawrence Olson

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John Frost

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Ryan Carson

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Stephen Antol

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Michael Martinez

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