Mr. Nemis since 1980 has been the President of Noront Resources Ltd. Noront has funded the exploration and discovery of what may be the largest and richest antimony deposit in the world. The mine was put into production but due to poor antimony prices, was put on a care and standby basis by Roycefield Resources. Mr. Nemis was president and CEO of Central Crude Ltd. until its merger to become River Gold Mines Inc. During the period in which Mr. Nemis was its President, Central Crude discovered, developed and financed over $35 million to further develop two deposits. The first gold deposit being the Eagle River Deposit near Mishibishu Lake (south of Hemlo, Ontario) where River Gold is currently in operation and secondly, to delineate the Moss Lake Deposit, Thunder Bay area, Ontario, where reserves were estimated at 92 million tones, grading .0265 Au/ton. “Mr. Nemis was associated with a Mr. V.N. Harbinson and associated with a number of the Harbinson group of companies, Consolidated Durham Mines, Spooner Mines and Oils, Dominion Explorers, Noble Mines and Oils, Onaping Resources to name a few.”Mr. Nemis currently is a senior member and part owner of the largest structural steel firm in northern Ontario, operating since 1946 out of Sudbury.
Specialization in applied mineral exploration for bulk and lode gold-silver, precious metal-bearing volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS), porphyry copper-molybdenum and porphyry copper-gold deposits throughout the North American Cordillera.
Neil has 28 years experience in the mining industry, the last 10 of which have been directly related to the diamond exploration industry. Neil graduated from University of Waterloo in 1977 and immediately became involved as a project geologist for the Canadian operations of Australian based uranium explorer Pancontinental Mining Ltd.
Maurice H. Stekel became a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1958. He was honoured to be elected by the Council of The Institute as a “Life Member” in November 2003. He was a founding and senior partner in the firm of Birnbaum, Prenick, Stekel & Co., Chartered Accountants. Founded in 1965, their firm was ranked 23 rd on the “Bottom Line’s Top 30” list in 1991. On June 1, 1993, Mr. Stekel changed his status to “retired partner”. He is continuing his consulting under the auspices of his company Mo-Kar Holdings Inc.
Since 1971 he has been a licensed mortgage broker and is president of BPS Management Limited.
Throughout Mr. Stekel’s career, he has been extremely involved in various aspects of the mining industry. Also, since 1963, he has been appointed to hold directorships in numerous mining companies. In addition he has held and continues to hold directorships in various other corporations.
Mr. Graham attended the University of Waterloo and received a Batchelor of Science in 1983.
In 1986 Mr. Graham became President of R. Bruce Graham and Associates Ltd. a mining consulting firm that has served the mineral industry since 1956.
Mr. Graham has over twenty five years of experience in the industry and has served as a director and manager of a number of private and public natural resource and mining concerns. His relevant experience has been in the fields of base and precious metals, uranium and industrial minerals and materials.
Mr. Graham has worked in Canada, the United States, Scandinavia and Africa.
Mr. Nemis provides an executive address on current Company developments.