Mike has been working in exploration geology since 1969. During these forty years he has worked mainly in the Western U.S., including the Great Basin, Rocky Mountains and southwestern Alaska. Mike has gained expertise in exploration for, and development of precious and base metal deposits with special expertise in high sulfidation gold deposits and copper/molybdenum porphyry deposits. He has worked for such companies as Cities Service Minerals, and Anaconda Minerals. While with Anaconda he served as Project Geologist at Summitville, Colorado, where he lead an effort that discovered a deposit containing 6 million ounces of gold. He has spent many years consulting for numerous Vancouver junior mining companies and is currently working with Burnstone Ventures as Project Manager. He graduated with B.S. and M.S. degrees in geologic sciences from the University of Colorado.

Jim Chapman graduated with his degree in geology from the University of British Columbia in 1976. His 31 years experience in geological exploration has included all aspects of the industry from project generation through implementation and report preparation for owners, clients and regulatory authorities. Since 1982 he has operated as an independent consulting geologist on projects ranging from property evaluation, reconnaissance level exploration to deposit definition drilling programs. These programs have included mineral exploration for base and precious metals, diamonds, phosphate, graphite and uranium in the Americas, Europe and Africa. This work has been carried out for a number of junior exploration companies and consulting groups, predominantly based in Vancouver. In addition to the technical aspects of the business Mr. Chapman has been a director and officer of several public companies on the TSX-V and NASDAQ OTC exchanges.

Brock Riedell has over 30 years minerals exploration experience, emphasizing porphyry Cu/Mo/Au deposits, with BHP Billiton (where he served as Chief Geologist), Newmont, and Exxon Minerals. While at Exxon he led the exploration and initial delineation of the 875-Mt Mount Hope, Nevada porphyry molybdenum deposit now being permitted for development by a General Moly/POSCO joint venture. Since 2009, he has served as a consultant and technical advisor on advanced copper-molybdenum-gold projects in North and South America. He is a 1976 graduate of Williams College with a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Geology, and in 1979 received a Master of Science degree in Geological Sciences from the University of Washington.