Mr. Owen joined Apex Silver in June 2005. During his 30-year career in the industry he has held several senior project development positions with major international mining companies including Inco Limited Cyprus Amax Minerals Company and Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc. Mr. Owen has successfully developed and expanded over 20 major mining projects around the world including Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold’s Grasberg operation in West Papua Indonesia Cyprus Amax’s Kubaka project in eastern Russia and Fort Knox mine in Alaska. Mr. Owen holds a B.Sc. in Mining Engineering from the University of Idaho and is a graduate from the Advanced Senior Management Program of Harvard University.
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