John Kaiser bullish on zinc
Lithic Resources (LTH-V)
www.lithicresources.com
45.1 million o/s
Insiders own 7%
<$0.8 million cash (as of Sept 30, 2012)
Key people
Chris Stargaad - President, CEO and Director
Mr. Staargaard holds a B.Sc. in Geology from The Pennsylvania State University and an M.Sc. in Geochemistry from Queen's University. Initially, he worked in mineral exploration as a project geologist for Kennco Explorations (Western) Ltd. (a subsidiary of Kennecott Copper), Kidd Creek Mines Ltd., Homestake Mineral Development Company and Silver Hart Mines Ltd. From 1988 until joining Lithic in 2002, he was an independent consulting geologist, mainly to junior mining companies and investment dealers involved in the mineral exploration industry. In all, he has over 35 years of experience in the evaluation of mineral exploration projects in a wide variety of geological environments throughout Canada, the United States, Central and South America as well as China, the Southwest Pacific, Africa, Eastern Europe, Ukraine and Madagascar.
Wayne Hubert - Director
Mr. Hubert was most recently CEO and director of Andean Resources Limited from 2006 until December 2010. When he joined Andean, the company had a market capitalization of $70 million and a resource base of about 800,000 ounces of gold. Mr. Hubert helped lead Andean through several discoveries which increased the resource base to over 5 million ounces of high-grade gold as well as subsequent feasibility studies, financings and permitting. Andean was ultimately acquired by Goldcorp for $3.5 billion.
Prior to his tenure at Andean, Mr. Hubert was Vice-President Corporate Development and Investor Relations with Meridian Gold Inc. During his 14 year career at Meridian, he gained considerable experience in the areas of finance, exploration, project development, permitting and construction. He has a bachelor of science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cape Town and an MBA from Brigham Young University.
Kerry Curtis - Director
Mr. Curtis is the former President, CEO and director of Cumberland Resources Ltd., a Canadian gold company which he led from the resource discovery stage through feasibility, permitting and initial construction until its acquisition by Agnico Eagle in 2007. He is also a former director of Meliadine Resources Ltd., a privately owned Nunavut gold explorer which was sold to Agnico Eagle in 2010. He is currently President and CEO of South Arm Resources Ltd., a private company based in British Columbia.
Mr. Curtis has 28 years of experience in mineral exploration, feasibility, development and financing as well as corporate development and general corporate affairs. He has completed a wide range of mining transactions in his career including corporate transactions, equity financings for exploration and development and syndicated bank financing for development. He is a graduate of the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Science in Geology and is a Professional Geoscientist (P.Geo.) registered with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia.
Company presentation - Feb 2012
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Fact sheet
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