Our mining and geology team are located in Calgary, Vancouver, and Fernie consisting of individuals, most with mine operations backgrounds with senior personnel having a minimum of 25 years consulting or operations experience in metals, coal, or oils sands. All are highly skilled in using mine software applications, specifically MineSight ®. Brief biographies of key staff with coal, oil sands, and hard rock geology and mining experience are provided below, and their resumes are available on request.

Bob Fong, P. Eng., Mining Engineer:  Bob Fong has over 25 years of mine planning, design, management and operating experience in oil sands, coal and other soft-rock and base-metal mining operations.  Bob spent 13 years in operating roles at a number of coal mines in Western Canada. dealing with start-ups, operations, Mine engineering, environmental affairs, mine decommissioning and reclamation, including Byron Creek (now Coal Mountain) and Fording’s Fording River and Genesee Operations.  He was the Mining Lead on the Antamina mine feasibility study in 1997-98. He has worked on major oil sands projects since 1997, in various roles and responsibilities that include resource evaluations, cost studies, mine planning/design, and mining/project lead including Deer Creek’s Josyln project, Synenco’s Northern Lights project, Suncor’s Steepbank, Lease 86/17, Millennium and Voyager projects, Mobil’s Kearl Lake project, and Lease OS9 for PanCanadian. Bob is an NI 43-101 QP.

Don Guglielmin, Mine Software Application:  Don is a mine software applications specialist, with over 25 years experience in providing support to mine operations and major project studies specifically for Fording Coal, and Byron Creek. He has provided technical support to resource modeling, database management, mine design, production scheduling, development and enhancement of specific software applications. He has modeled hard rock projects from copper and gold to diamonds, coal/strataform deposits, and oil sands projects. He is currently employed by Mintec Inc. and has been instrumental in developing complex coal software for the MineSight suite of programs. Don is available to team up on a consulting basis.

R.J. (Bob) Morris, M.Sc., P. Geo., Geologist:  Bob is an experienced geologist with 37 years in operations and consulting on metals, soft rock, coal, and oil sands projects and is an NI 43-101 QP. Gold exploration includes three years as VP of Exploration in Argentina, work in Bralorne area, as well as Colombia, Nicaragua, China, and Saskatchewan. Base metal work include evalutaions in BC, California, NWT and the Yukon. Coal  related assignments include exploration and development at all five of the mines in the Crowsnest  and Elk Valley coal fields as well as regional mapping in southeast BC. As well as property evaluations in NE BC, Northumberland (British Coal), Iran, Indonesia, Colombia, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Thailand. Oil sands work includes due diligence review on the Fort Hills project for Teck-Cominco, geology and resource reviews for both Suncor and Mobil, and winter drill programs at OSLO and Synenco.

Greg Trout, Civil Engineer: Greg has diversified mining experience at a large open pit coal operation including tailings pond and infrastructure construction, production planning and scheduling, mine design, drilling and blasting, operations supervision, and mine maintenance. As Superintendent of Maintenance at Fording Coal’s Fording River operation he was responsible for all aspects of Preventative Maintenance, Predictive Maintenance, Planned Component Replacement, programs as well as analysis of new equipment purchasing programs and new equipment erection and major overhaul contracts. Since leaving Fording Greg has been involved with bridge construction projects, equipment manufacturing, and fleet maintenance programs as well as mine planning and operations consulting. He specializes in mine maintenance, mine start-up planning, and evaluation of the operability of mine plans

Mike Takkinen, AScT. Coal Mining Specialist: Mike has worked 24 years at the Byron Creek/Coal Mountain Mine in all aspects of the operations. This includes Exploration, Mine Planning, Coal Quality assurance, Coal Processing, and Environmental planning. He is trained as an ISO 9001 auditor and has been involved with ISO 14001 development. Mike is a specialist in the use of MineSight software in complex coal and in coal Resource modeling. He is also using his planning skills and operations experience in consulting in hard rock projects.

Tracey Meintjes, Engineering Systems: Tracey is a Process Engineer & Business Analyst with process design, project evaluation, project management and contract management experience. After immigrating to Canada from South Africa he has been involved with project evaluation work using MineSight software and Excel based cost modeling. He has been involved with copper, gold, coal, molybdenum, project evaluations and is a specialist in pit and schedule optimization. He is also responsible for creating the mining cost model and equipment data base used for the project evaluations. Tracey is now located in Vancouver.

Jim Gray, P. Eng., Mining Engineer:  Jim has 30 years of consulting and mine operations experience encompassing resource estimation, conceptual scoping studies, strategic planning, detailed designs, production schedule optimization, capital and operating costing, detailed design, permitting, new mine start-up, operations management, and operations planning and supervision. He has worked in underground tin in Tasmania and open pit operations in Canada for Fording Coal in the Elk Valley and in Prairie strip mining. Since leaving operations he has been consulting internationally for 15 years in Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Australia, Iran, and North America. Jim was involved with the Quebrada Blanca project in Chile from original conceptual planning through resource development, financing, start-up and productions reconciliation for non-recourse funding conditions. He is a NI 43-101 QP, has provided review consulting for Transalta, Teck-Cominco, Placer Dome, and consulted on numerous projects around the world.  Jim has been involved in equipment control and production monitoring systems for large mining equipment and fleet management as a Director of Aquila Mining Systems.

Bob Engler, P. Geol., Geologist: Bob has 35 years experience in the Coal Industry, primarily in western Canada where he held senior exploration/mine development positions with Luscar Ltd; and later, executive positions in Coal Marketing. Bob is familiar with current active coal mining operations in Canada and new developing projects. He has specific expertise in coal quality evalutions and market evalution studies. Recent projects include new mine developments in North East BC, Saskatchewan and Central Alberta. Bob has also evaluated and conducted due diligence studies on coal projects in China, Mongolia, Mexico, Columbia and the western United States. Bob is a  Qualified Person for NI 43-101 Reports.

Jesse Aarsen, P. Eng., Mining Engineer: Jesse has 4 ½ years at the Elk Valley Coal Corp. Greenhills mine. His work experience includes drilling and blasting, short and long range mine planning, and production scheduling,  and Engineering studies for the operation. He also has experience with fleet management systems, and Runge and MineSight Mine Planning software.

Marc Schulte, P. Eng., Mining Engineer: Marc was recently employed by Finning providing specialty engineering support for equipment selection, productivity and costing analysis, financial modeling, and field support for Caterpillar productions systems. His previous student experience (including a Co-Op term), includes assignments at Fording Greenhills Operations and Luscar’s Line Creek (now Elk Valley Coal Corp.)  and Fording’s Mildred Lake oilsands. Pre-stripping operation. Since joning Moose Mountain, Marc has been involved with Mine Design, Mine Scheduling, and Costing on various open pit projects using MineSight and in house software applications.

Cathy Pasemko, P. Geo., Geologist: Cathy is a Fernie based coal geologist with experience on exploration projects in the Elk Valley. She is providing support to Bob Morris in reviewing and evaluating the drillhole and geology data bases for coal projects.

Jesper Kofoed, Geologist: Jesper has 14 years experience in exploration geology, mainly from Greenland, Scandinavia, East Africa and SE Asia. His experience covers the development and management of a series of advanced exploration programs of mainly Gold, PGE’s, and Molybdenum in Greenland, and SE Asia.  He was instrumental in the early stage development of the Nalunaq gold project now a producing mine, and he has been project geologist on the Malmbjerg molybdenum project for three years. Jesper is a GIS professional using ArcGis. He also spent three years as an advisor to the UN Environment Programme on geological natural hazards and mining issues in East Afrca. Jesper is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Heather M. Robillard, P. Eng., Mining Engineer: Heather has 4 years mining and tailings engineering experience with CNRL's Horizon Project. Her work there involved mine, waste and tailings planning, operating and engineering budgets, development of financial models, reclamation and closure plans and disposal diagrams. Her previous experience with Runge Mining (Canada) Ltd. includes development & implementation of long and short-range mine plans and financial models using XPAC and XERAS. Heather has experience with operations throughout Canada, USA and Colombia and in commodities that include coal, gold, copper, and oil sands.

Roger Berdusco, R.P.F., Professional Forester: Roger has over 35 years experience in coal mining management focused on Environmental, Permitting and Regulatory, Aboriginal, and Community Affairs. During those years, he also had responsibilities that included operational and exploration Geology, and Public Affairs. He worked for over 30 years at Teck and its predecessor mines in the Elk Valley, and three years at the corporate office in Calgary, AB. His responsibilities there included corporate Environmental and Aboriginal Affairs direction for the 6 coal mining operations in BC and Alberta, 3 industrial mineral mines in the US and Mexico, and representing  Teck at the EHS Committee of Neptune Terminals in N. Vancouver.  Roger has published numerous technical papers on mine reclamation and management, selenium and aboriginal issues over the years.  He has chaired technical committees involving industry, government and academics, and has assisted in creating and revising environmental legislation related to mining and environmental assessment in BC.  He was involved with the successful negotiation and maintenance of key agreements with First Nations near the minesites.   Roger and the companies he represented were recognized on many occasions for excellence in Environmental Management at the provincial and federal levels.  Roger now consults from his home in Cranbrook BC, where he continues to provide assistance to mining companies on matters of Due Diligence , Environmental, Permitting, Aboriginal Affairs, and Socio-Economic issues.

Additional Members:

Gerry Reeves, P.Eng., Mining Engineer

Amy Budinski, Geol.I.T., Geologist 

Doug Haynes, CAD Specialist

Robert Gray, P.Eng., Civil Engineer

Matt Erickson, E.I.T., Civil Engineer

Norman Chan, E.I.T., Geomatics Engineer

Suzanne Butterfield, P. Geo., Geologist/Mine Planner

Gordon Shewchuk, P.L., Geology

Sue Bird

Colin Reeves