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Mr. Schafer is currently vice president, Business Development for Hunter Dickinson, a private natural resources corporation. He is also the immediate Past-President of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America. He is a member of the boards SME and Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada.
Prior to Mr. Schafer joining Hunter Dickinson in 2004, he was the chief executive officer of two junior exploration companies listed on the Toronto Venture Exchange. From 1996 until 2002, Mr. Schafer was the vice president of Exploration for Kinross Gold. In the 1980s and 1990s Mr. Schafer held senior exploration management positions with BHP World Minerals and Billiton Exploration.
In 2002, Mr. Schafer received the AIME William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal for career achievements and was named Distinguished Member of SME in 2007.
Mr. Schafer brings a wealth of operational and exploration knowledge with him having worked in Russia, the Far East, southern Africa, South America and Australia. His expertise includes the structuring and implementation of successful exploration strategies, project reviews, mineral acquisitions and management of local and expatriate exploration teams on a wide variety of cultures.
Mr. Schafer completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees in geology and mineral economics at Miami University (Ohio) and the University of Arizona. | 