Steven R. Koehler
Mr. Koehler is an exploration geologist with over 30 years of experience working on projects across various stages of development. Over the course of his career, he has established a particular expertise operating along the Carlin and Battle Mountain – Eureka Trends in Nevada. To date, Steven has been directly involved in eleven Carlin-type gold discoveries, six of which have become producing mines. Notably, Mr. Koehler was Senior Geologist on the initial discovery team at Cortez Hills, which was developed into an operating mine . He was awarded the 2005 Thayer Lindsley International Discovery Award for his contributions to that discovery. Cortez Hills is situated approximately 10 kilometers northeast of the Company’s Toiyabe Project.
Richard L. Bedell
Mr. Bedell has 40 years of international exploration experience with some of the largest mining companies in the world. He has previously held positions with Homestake Mining as part of their global target selection team, and later ran their technical group for exploration worldwide. Over his long career Richard has also done exploration for international majors BP Minerals and Rio Tinto. Mr. Bedell was a Co-Founder of AuEx Ventures, which was credited with discovering the Long Canyon deposit in Nevada, and ran the exploration program for 2 years after its joint venture with Fronteer Gold, who later purchased AuEx for $280 million, and ultimately sold to Newmont for $2.3 billion. He also was a Co-Founder and President of Renaissance Gold, a gold exploration company focused on the Great Basin area of the U.S.; the company recently merged with Evrim Resources to create Orogen Royalties.