Mr. Lewis has more than 35 years experience in the Oil and Gas and Mineral exploration industries. He has held various positions including Project Geologist, Project Manager, Senior Project Geologist, and Vice President Exploration. He also was an integral member of the development team that explored, and developed the Cortez Hills deposit in Crescent Valley Nevada.
In 1973 Mr. Lewis started his career in the Oil Fields, and worked in the Geophysical, and Drilling industries until 1981, when he became a Petroleum Landman for Westburne Petroleum & Minerals. While there he was responsible for the acquisition and disposition of interests and maintaining title to petroleum lands in various locales in the United States, and Western Canada. In 1989 he started his own business as a consulting geologist and has worked in numerous locations over the past 20 years, including the United States, Mexico, Canada, Portugal, Chile, Africa, India and Honduras. Some of the positions he held include: working with Teck Cominco in 1996 evaluating and exploring precious metal deposits in Southern Mexico; Project Manager on the Farim Phosphate deposit for Champion Resources in Guinea Bissau, West Africa in 1998; Project Geologist in 2001 and 2002 for Crystal Graphite Corporation, Project Geologist on the Midway Gold project in Tonopah Nevada, followed by two years as Senior Geologist at the Cortez Joint Venture in Crescent Valley, Nevada. By August 2005 he was named Vice President of Exploration in Portugal for St Elias Mines, working on the Jales project, and developing grass roots projects in Nevada. Following his experience in Portugal and Nevada he consulted to Selkirk Metals and New World Resource Corp. on projects in western Canada and Nevada. Most recently he consulted to Kinross Gold USA evaluating possible acquisitions.
John Hiner, Vice President of Exploration and Director
Mr. Hiner has more than 30 years of experience in worldwide resource exploration and management. He has managed successful exploration, acquisition, and development programs for metals and industrial minerals on four continents. His range of experience includes petroleum exploration, energy minerals, and geothermal energy development. Mr. Hiner has managed projects from the conceptual exploration stage to positive feasibility and finance level studies on proven deposits in South America, North America, and Africa.
As both geologist and manager, Mr. Hiner has held positions with a variety of companies, from multinational Phillips Petroleum Company to a Canadian junior, Champion Resources Inc. He has numerous years experience running publicly traded companies.
Henry (Kip) Tonking, Director
Mr. Tonking is a graduate of the Mackay School of Mines at the University of Nevada in Reno Nevada, graduating with a B.Sc. in Geology in 1979. Currently based in Reno, Kip has provided exploration and management services to a number of Major and Junior mining firms throughout the Western United States, with his principal focus being the State of Nevada. He has over 30 years of experience in minerals exploration and real estate development. Mr. Tonking is currently the President of T & T Exploration, a mineral exploration consulting firm, Vice President of Golden Crescent Corporation, and Manager of All American Resources, all of which are Nevada based companies.
Stephen Goss, Director
Mr. Goss has more than twenty years experience in the mineral exploration industry, primarily as a mineral landman, and previously worked for The Bunker Hill Company, U.S. Borax and Chemical Corporation, and Kennecott Exploration Company. He has been involved with several start-up mineral exploration companies, most notably Timberline Resources Corporation which he co-founded and was CEO from January 2004 to May 2006. Mr. Goss received a M.S. degree in Geography from the University of Idaho and is licensed as a Certified General real estate appraiser in the State of Washington.
John G. Webster, Director
Mr. Webster has been a CPA since 1987. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, with a BA in Economics and Accounting. John has extensive experience in S.E.C. reporting and auditing, governmental audits, tax issues and consulting for closely held business enterprises.
From 1996 to 2006, Mr. Webster was one of the founding senior principals and Vice-President of Williams & Webster, P.S., a Spokane-based regional CPA firm specializing in the auditing of small public companies and consulting for emerging public companies. Mr. Webster served as Williams & Webster’s technical principal and assisted in all merger and acquisition transactions for both accounting and tax issues.