Mr. Capponi has over 14 years of experience and a successful track-record in creating, structuring and selling natural resources companies in Europe and both North and Latin America. Mr. Capponi is the founder of Western Atlas Resources and was Co-Founder, President and CEO of CB Gold Inc. (CB Gold was acquired in December 2015). Prior to that Mr. Capponi was with Endeavour Financial and has covered Director and Management positions with private companies. Mr. Capponi holds a master’s degree in economics and business administration from the LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome, Italy.
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Gregory Beischer
Millrock
Mr. Beischer is a seasoned explorationist with a solid track record of success, previously with Inco Ltd., and the Bristol Bay Native Corporation. He is a geologist and mining engineering technologist having graduated from Laurentian University (1987), Sudbury, Ontario, and the Haileybury School of Mines (1981), Haileybury, Ontario. Mr. Beischer is a certified professional geologist (#10505) with the American Institute of Professional Geologists. Mr. Beischer is the past President of the Alaska Miner's Association and serves on the Alaska Minerals Commission.
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Justin Reid
Troilus
Mr. Reid has +20yrs of experience in the mining sector as a geologist and capital markets executive. He began his career as a geologist, after which he became a Partner/Senior Mining Analyst at Sprott/Cormark. He is the former Executive GM at Paladin Energy, where he led all M&A, corporate and market related activities. He is the former Managing Director Global Mining Sales at NBF, where he directed the firm’s mining sales and trading. Most recently, he acted as President of Sulliden Gold until its acquisition in 2014, and Director at Aguia Resources (2015-2019). He holds a B.Sc from the UofRegina, a M.Sc from UofT and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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Company backgrounds and useful links.
Western Atlas
Fabio Capponi,
Western Atlas Resources is backed and managed by professionals with multidecade combined experience and a successful track-record in both the natural resources and the capital market industries.
The Company is currently exploring its 100% owned Meadowbank project, strategically positioned along trend and immediately adjacent to Agnico Eagle’s Meadowbank and Amaruq producing gold mines in Nunavut, Canada. Western Atlas’ Meadowbank Project is fully permitted for exploration.
In addition, Western Atlas has signed a Share Purchase Agreement to acquire from Gran Colombia Gold all of the outstanding shares of Medoro Resources International. Medoro holds mining rights to the Increible 4A and 4B concessions in the Bolivar State, Venezuela (for more info please refer to the Company website).
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Millrock
Gregory Beischer
A project generator maintains a portfolio of multiple projects and funds major exploration work by creating joint-venture partnerships with other companies. They acquire prospects they deem to have significant mineral potential and option them to a partner, generally a mid-tier or major mining company. In exchange for a majority share of the project, the partner agrees to spend a certain dollar amount, generally in the millions of dollars, progressing the project forward.
The model enables the project generator to de-risk mineral exploration by accessing capital from partner companies to fund the high-risk and expensive drilling phases of exploration. For Millrock, this means only spending shareholder’s money on the earliest stages of exploration and mineral acquisition, which are relatively inexpensive compared to drilling.
Typically, a project generator has multiple projects partnered with multiple partners at any given time. This increases the chances of exploration success and share price increase. The company can expand its business without having to go back to the market to raise funds.
In addition, revenues can be derived if the partner makes cash payments in the form of option agreement payments and management fees, or in the case of a junior company partner, share issuances to complete the earn-in.
Millrock has established itself as a top-tier Project Generator.
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Troilus
Justin Reid
Troilus Gold Corp. is a development-stage mining company focused on the mineral expansion and potential mine restart of the formerly producing Troilus Gold Mine, located in Quebec, Canada. In the three years since the acquisition of the project the Company has proved tremendous value at the property, growing the gold deposit over 129% to 4.71 Moz (Indicated) and 1.76 Moz (Inferred), with data pointing to further growth. Over $300M worth of inherited infrastructure is expected to positively impact the project economics and timeline to production. A PEA is planned for completion this year. Troilus represents a unique investment opportunity with fast growth potential in one of the world’s most favourable mining jurisdictions.
