Charles has over 45 years experience in the investment industry, including 25 years involvement in mineral exploration and mining and is currently affiliated with Echo Ridge Resources Inc., Interbanc Capital Corp., Parklane Securities Ltd. and Tashota Resources Inc. Charles has demonstrated considerable expertise in: (a) identifying and negotiating the rights to exploration properties, including the properties optioned by TRI; and (b) assembling management and operational teams, including geological and mining experts.
Charles started his career in the investment industry at Nesbitt Thompson Securities Ltd., Subsequently, he spent 12 years as a Director and Resident Sales Manager of Deacon Hodgson, a national brokerage firm, and four years with Burns Fry, Yorkton and St. Lawrence Securities. Upon resigning from St. Lawrence Securities, Charles established his own financial planning firm, Tax Advantages Inc. (a registered mutual fund dealer), C. J. Elbourne Securities Inc. (a licensed Securities Dealer). Charles holds a B.Comm degree, a Diploma in Management Sciences and an MBA, all from the University of Ottawa.
Jon Li brings more than 20 years of finance experience with speciality in mining, technology and financial service industry. As the Vice President of WD Numeric, a full-service accounting firm that provides financial and support services for both public and private companies, Jon leads ongoing process improvement efforts, conducts quality control reviews of client files, and provides CFO services to a portfolio of clients.
Prior to WD Numeric, Jon was the Financial Controller at Strategic Pricing Management Group (SPMG) and was responsible for managing all financial activities of the company including set-up and maintenance of general ledger accounting system, budgeting, forecasting, cash management and financial reporting. Jon is a CPA (US & Canada) and holds a MBA with concentration in Accounting.
Russell has been an avid and successful gold prospector and mineral exploration property optionor in Thunder Bay, Ontario during the past 45 years. Along with his son Derrick, Russell received the prestigious 2004 Discovery of the Year Award from the Northwestern Ontario Prospectors Association for the Larose Project located 100 km west of the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
In 2015, Russell was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding work and continuous dedication to prospecting in Northwestern Ontario.
Ikram (Ike) has 35 years experience in field-based mineral exploration (for a variety of mineral commodities in diverse geological settings) as well as resource development and research encompassing geological mapping, geophysical data interpretation, diamond drill program supervision, core logging, field project planning and supervision and preparation of NI 43-101 technical reports as a Qualified Person (“QP”). Ike also has five years corporate experience including running publicly-traded junior resource companies in executive capacities.
His accomplishments include the development of a NI 43-101 compliant gold resource of approximately one million ounces (Indicated and Inferred) in less than two years in the Shebandowan greenstone belt in Northwestern Ontario and the discovery of significant Titanium-Vanadium mineralization while exploring and developing a magmatic Ni-Cu-PGM deposit approximately 75 km west of the “Ring of Fire” also in Northern Ontario.
Paul is an active investor in mining projects, including Tashota Resources Inc., Trojan Gold Inc. (both related companies of SCC) and others.
Since 1991, Paul has been providing landscape & design, excavation and environmental remediation services and since 2007, he has been providing property management, condominium development services, insurance restoration and exterior building renovations all in Alberta.
Prior to his private sector activities, Paul was an Executive Assistant to the Minister of Health for Newfoundland and Labrador (1984-1989).
Colin has worked in mineral exploration for 34 years. After working for major mining companies for five years, Colin became a consulting geologist in 1974. With a thorough knowledge of applied geology as it relates to mineral exploration, Colin also has extensive hands-on experience in modern geophysical and geochemical exploration techniques.
Colin was instrumental in the discovery of the Olden Wollastonite deposit in southeast Ontario in 1986, which contains a measured resource of 2.5 million tonnes grading 29% high aspect-ratio wollastonite with an estimated gross value of $1-2 billion dollars. Colin has served as a director and/or officer of several publicly traded mining and exploration companies. Colin received an M.A. degree in mineralogy and petrology from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Edinburgh.
For the past 37 years, Gerry has worked extensively with multiple exploration and mining organizations, including Taiga Consultants Limited, Pan Ocean Limited/Abermin Corporation, Pacific Petroleums Limited, the Saskatchewan Mining and Development Corporation and the Ontario Geological Survey (OGS).Gerry has authored and co-authored various reports on natural resources, including reports on the Beardmore-Geraldton Gold Camp area.
Gerry has also dealt with numerous First Nation issues and provided ongoing consultations in this arena. His working knowledge of the Mining Act has been used to advise exploration clients on staking regulations, assessment work requirements and advanced exploration issues. Gerry is an active member of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario and holds a Bachelor of Science (Geology) Degree from the University of Manitoba.
For the past 24 years, Rudy has been searching for new mineral discoveries, which include significant new findings in the Thunder Bay South District, which includes the Marathon–Hemlo Mining Camp. His efforts have resulted in diamond discoveries in 2008, several significant gold occurrences, discovery of a large Para Lamproite site in 2012 and, over the past 3 years, the discovery of 17 new rare earth occurrences, two uranium occurrences, two new Niobium P205 occurrences.
In April 2020, Rudy received PDAC’s prestigious 2020 Bill Dennis Award, which honours those who have made a significant mineral discovery or made an important contribution to prospecting and/or exploration industry.
Ikram (Ike) has 35 years experience in field-based mineral exploration (for a variety of mineral commodities in diverse geological settings) as well as resource development and research encompassing geological mapping, geophysical data interpretation, diamond drill program supervision, core logging, field project planning and supervision and preparation of NI 43-101 technical reports as a Qualified Person (“QP”). Ike also has five years corporate experience including running publicly-traded junior resource companies in executive capacities.
His accomplishments include the development of a NI 43-101 compliant gold resource of approximately one million ounces (Indicated and Inferred) in less than two years in the Shebandowan greenstone belt in Northwestern Ontario and the discovery of significant Titanium-Vanadium mineralization while exploring and developing a magmatic Ni-Cu-PGM deposit approximately 75 km west of the “Ring of Fire” also in Northern Ontario.
Rodney is a senior geologist with extensive experience in exploration and production. He was most recently employed as the Geology Superintendent for the Barrick’s Williams Mine at Hemlo, Ontario (2010-2018), a position he reached after joining the company in 2001 as a Mine Geologist and rising through the ranks to Senior Production Mine Geologist (2003), Senior Resource Geologist (2006) and Chief Geologist in 2008.