John Keenan - Senior Field Coordinator
Mr. Keenan holds an MSc degree in Mineral Exploration from the Royal School of Mines in London and has 40 years of experience in mineral exploration and mining. He has served as chief geologist for Eastern Transvaal Consolidated Mines (Anglovaal Ltd), Monarch Resources and Buffalo Gold. John has spent the past 20 years directing and consulting on gold exploration projects in Central and South America (chiefly in Panama, Venezuela, Peru and Chile) and Papua New Guinea and was instrumental in the discovery of the La Camorra gold mine in Venezuela.
James Prudden - Senior Technical Consultant
Mr. Prudden brings 40 years of experience in placer mining of precious metals. Among his assignments, he served as Chief Engineer at Valdez Creek Placer mine in Alaska. He was in charge of the Tena Ecuador project on the Rio Jatunacu coordinating and supervising six geologists. Jim’s alluvial experience includes diamonds, tin, ilmanite and other minerals in Africa, North America, Canada, Mexico, Central America and South America. He has worked for INCO, Anglo American and US Steel in a variety of senior technical and management positions in Australia. He has an engineering, geology and gemology degree and has developed several mines principally in Nevada.
