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Bob Sibthorpe is an Exploration Geologist and Financial Analyst offering more than 30 years of multi-disciplinary experience in many aspects of the natural resource sector. A graduate of the University of Toronto, Bob began his career as a geologist conducting exploration programs for mining companies in Canada, the Middle East and the Republic of South Africa for ten years.
Then after graduating from the MBA program at the University of Toronto in 1979, he joined Midland Doherty Ltd. (a Canadian investment house in Toronto) as Institutional Mining Analyst and was appointed a Director and Head of Research for that firm. In 1986 he became Director and Senior Analyst Corporate Finance (Canada) working in Toronto and Vancouver for Yorkton Securities Inc., an independent Canadian investment house that directly or through syndication, raised some $3 billion in equity capital for the mining sector over the following ten years.
In 1999, after returning from a two year sebbatical, Bob joined Canaccord Capital Corp. (Vancouver), as Senior Mining Analyst, and in 2000 returned to the mining industry, joining Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., a mid-tier copper and iron ore producer, as Senior Vice President of Business Development in Vancouver. Here he was responsible for evaluating new opportunities, and for advancing properties of merit already held by the company. By forming and running a 'Small Mines Unit', he was directly responsible for placing into commercial production, an epithermal gold deposit in Korea and advancing two other Asian gold properties to the Feasibility Study Level. | 