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AGORACOM WIRE .... TUESDAY FEBRUARY 14TH
TOP Story ....
Strike Graphite Corp. (TSXV:SRK) Acquires Wagon Graphite Project in Quebec in Vicinity of Timcal's Lac des Iles Graphite Mine *CLIENT Read More | Profile
McLaren Resources (CNSX:MCL) Drills 7.0 Grams Gold Over 7.4 Metres at the TimGinn Property Located Adjacent to the Hollinger Mine *CLIENT* Read More | Watch Beyond the Press Release
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Duane Poliquin graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a degree in Geological Engineering in 1962, became a registered professional engineer in 1966, and ever since has been continuously active in mining exploration around the world. Duane started out with a large Canadian mining company and was soon involved in a major copper-zinc discovery. This was followed by work with several of the worlds largest base metal and gold companies in some of the most important mining areas of the world.
In 1971 Duane initiated a public company called Westley Mines Ltd. In 1972, believing gold would rise, Duane identified the Santa Fe property in Nevada as a potential bulk tonnage target and started Westley Mine Ltd. to explore it with an intial public offering in 1974. The property was placed in production as a heap leach operation by Corona Mines Ltd. which became part of Homestake Mines Ltd., and then Barrick. Other successful ventures were then discovery of an extension to the Nevada Sheelite Mine - which was placed into production that continued until a sharp drop in tungsten prices in the mid 1980's - and the identification, assembly, and intial development of the Apex germanium-gallium mine - a specialty metals deposit in Utah that contained over one million tons of mineralized material with a gross value of over $1,000 per ton. The property was vended to Musto Exploration Ltd., who placed the property into production in the late 1980's. Duane also indentified the La Trinidad gold deposit in Sinaloa state, Mexico, a high grade heap leachable gold deposit vended by Almaden Minerals Ltd. to Eldorado Gold Coporation, who placed it into production. Duane founded Almaden Resources Corporation in 1981 and has been actively working on gold and copper projects in Mexico and a diamond project in the NorthWest Territories.
Having been in the exploration industry for 39 years Duane has been through several metal and mining market cycles and remains confident that the next up cycle will be very rewarding for all the remaining participants.
Morgan Poliquin is a British Columbia Registered Professional Engineer and a 1994 graduate of the UBC geological engineering program. He earned his Masters of Science in Geology at the University of Auckland, studying geothermal systems and epithermal gold deposits and his thesis work took him to the Emperor Gold Mine in Fiji.
In 1996, Morgan came to work with his father at Almaden, and since 2000 Morgan planned, instituted, managed and personally led a country-wide helicopter-borne exploration programs for Almaden. Morgan has also managed joint ventures between Almaden and BHP Billiton World Exploration Ltd. for copper and gold and with Japan Oil Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC) for base metals in Mexico, resulting in the discovery and staking of numerous new mineral showings.
He is the senior geological engineer and a director of Almaden Minerals Ltd. Morgan is fluent in the geology and mechanisms of working in Mexico and continues to oversee and direct the company's exploration programs there.
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