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| David M. Cole Position: President, CEO and Director Mr. Cole has over twenty five years of industry experience, coming to Eurasian Minerals from Newmont Mining Corporation. At Newmont, he held a number of management and senior geologic positions, gaining extensive global experience as a project, mine, and generative exploration geologist in Nevada, Southeast Asia, South America, Europe, and Central Asia. Mr. Cole's success as part of Newmont's exploration team includes contributions at the world class Carlin Trend, Yanacocha, and Minihasa mines. Subsequently, he established and managed Newmont's exploration programs in Turkey while also identifying early stage acquisition targets in Eastern Europe. Mr. Cole specializes in developing new exploration ideas and opportunities, based upon solid technical expertise coupled with a keen business sense. Mr. Cole is also a successful private investor with an avid interest in the markets. He studied under Dr. Tommy Thompson at Colorado State University, earning an M.S. in Geology. | |
| Dr. Eric Jensen Position: Global Generative Exploration Team Leader Dr. Jensen has 15 years of industry experience including positions as mine geologist, mine-site exploration geologist, grassroots exploration geologist, and as a consultant to several major mining companies. Dr. Jensen is a co-founder of Bronco Creek Exploration, and currently serves as Chief Geologist of Eurasian Minerals. He has extensive experience in the planning and implementation of regional-scale sampling programs and geologic evaluations of properties and prospective terranes. He has relevant exploration, research and academic experience in mineral deposits related to alkaline magmatism, "high- and low-sulfidation" epithermal gold deposits, porphyry-style deposits, mesothermal lode gold systems, and Fe-oxide-Cu-Au systems. Dr. Jensen graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota in 1993 with a B.A. in Geology, and received his PhD in Economic Geology from the Center for Mineral Resources at the University of Arizona in 2003. | |
| Paul H. Zink Position: President of Eurasian Capital Mr. Zink graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Lehigh University with a bachelor's degree in Economics and International Relations. He has more than 30 years of experience in the financial and extractive industries. He began his career following the mining and metals industries during a 17-year tenure on Wall Street with J.P. Morgan & Co., Incorporated, where he performed industry research and merger and acquisition analysis on mineral companies, banking and project finance advisory work for European mining companies, and sell-side equity research on U.S. mining stocks. His extractive industry experience includes managing Pegasus Gold, Inc.'s acquisition efforts and serving as Chief Financial Officer for Koch Mineral Services, a unit of Koch Industries Inc. Mr. Zink most recently served as President of International Royalty Corporation ("IRC"), and comes to EMX after the successful sale of IRC to Royal Gold, Inc. in February 2010. | |
| Dr. Mesut Soylu Position: Exploration Manager - Turkey Dr. Soylu's eighteen years of experience has been directed towards base and precious metals exploration in southeastern Europe and Turkey. He worked for Rio Tinto from 1990 through 1996, initially in Turkey exploring for VMS, epithermal, and porphyry deposits, and subsequently as Technical Manager for the Company's program in Bulgaria. From 1996 through 2000 he worked as a consultant specializing in porphyry and epithermal deposits of the Tethyan metallogenic belt, with clients that included companies such as INCO, Mount Isa Mines, and BHP. Dr. Soylu joined BHP Billiton in 2000, and managed that company's porphyry copper exploration programs in Turkey until joining Eurasian Minerals. He holds a Ph.D. in Geology from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara. | |
| Dr. Pavel Reichl Position: Exploration Manager - Kyrgyzstan & Europe Dr. Reichl has been involved with precious, base, and PGE metals exploration and production for over fifteen years. After earning a Ph.D. from the University of Montana Dr. Reichl joined Newmont Mining Corporation (1991), and initially focused on gold exploration in the western United States, as well as mine geology on the Carlin Trend. In 1996 he was selected to lead Newmont's acquisition program in Eastern Europe, and from 1997 through 2002 he served as Newmont's Exploration Manager in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Prior to joining Eurasian Minerals, he was an independent consultant assisting clients with exploration and resource evaluation in Europe and Central Asia. | |
| David Royle Position: Exploration Manager - Austral-East Asia David Royle has extensive experience in exploration for precious and base metals and diamonds over the past 34 years for companies such as AMAX, Newmont, Newcrest and MIM. Recent positions include Managing Director of Kentor Gold Ltd and VP Exploration and Business Development for East Asia Minerals. He has a proven track record for the discovery of significant mineral deposits in Australia, South America and South-West Pacific. His experience includes strategic planning and design, budgeting, and implementation of exploration projects. Mr. Royale is a Fellow and Chartered Professional of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists. He holds a BSc (Hons), in Geology from the University of New England, NSW. | |
| Dr. Duncan Large Position: Lead Technical Advisor - Europe & Asia Dr. Large is a European-based geologist with over 30 years of experience in the mineral exploration and mining industry. He is a graduate in geology of the University of Oxford (B.Sc.), Royal School of Mines, London (M.Sc.) and the Technical University of Braunschweig (Ph.D.), and is registered as a Chartered Engineer by the Engineering Council (UK) and "Eur. Geol." by the European Federation of Geologists. Dr. Large's professional record includes six years with Rio Tinto Finance and Exploration Ltd., four years of applied exploration university research in Germany, and the past twenty years as an independent consulting geologist working on base- and precious-metals exploration and mining projects throughout the world. | |
| Dr. Peter Mitchell Position: Koonenberry Project Manager Dr. Mitchell has extensive experience exploring for porphyry copper, volcanogenic massive sulfide, epithermal gold and sediment-hosted deposits. During his 35 year career, he has worked at the Batu Hijau, Rosebud, Golden Cross and Thunder Mountain mines. Dr. Mitchell has worked throughout Southeast Asia, the Southwest Pacific and northwestern North America in addition to Peru, Argentina and Haiti. He has previously served as senior geologist for Exxon Minerals Company and Coeur d'Alene Mines as well as a number of senior geological and managerial positions with Newmont Mining, QGX and Antares Minerals. Additional positions include Exploration Manager for Argentina with Antares Minerals and managing QGX's Baruun Naran coal project in Mongolia. He holds an M.S. from Stanford University in Ore Deposits and Mineral Exploration and a Ph.D. from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand in Geology. | |
| Dr. David Johnson Position: President, Bronco Creek - United States Dr. David Johnson has more than 17 years of industry experience in generative exploration and consulting for major mining companies. Dr. Johnson is a co-founder of Bronco Creek Exploration, where his current responsibilities include business development, managing day-to-day company affairs, target generation, land acquisition, and overseeing project activities. He excels in designing, implementing, and managing broad-based mineral exploration programs, ranging from region-selection to property evaluation. Past research activities focused on the application of ore genesis and mass-transfer to mineral exploration where he co-developed a new deposit model for Fe-oxide-Cu-Au (IOCG) deposits and co-authored review papers on porphyry and IOCG deposits for the Economic Geology 100th Anniversary Volume. Dr. Johnson graduated from The Colorado College in 1988 with a B.A. in geology, and later earned his PhD from the University of Arizona in 2000. | |
| Jesper A.C. Kofoed Position: Exploration Manager - Scandinavia Mr. Kofoed started his professional career as a geologist in 1993, participating in the discovery of the Nalunaq gold deposit in Greenland. Mr. Kofoed has extensive experience with remote operations and has worked for exploration companies in Northern Europe including Greenland, the Americas, East and Southern Africa and South East Asia exploring for mainly for copper, gold, PGE's and uranium . He has gained experience from a number of different projects reaching from initial regional green field exploration, through feasibility studies, to actual mining operations. Before joining Eurasian Minerals he spent 5 years with Quadra Mining, acting first as chief geologist for the Malmbjerg Molybdenum project in East Greenland from 2005 to 2011. Later he also became part of the due diligence team of Quadra participating in a large number of project assessments, one of them ultimately leading to the merger between Quadra and FNX in 2010. He holds an MSc in geology from the University of Copenhagen. |