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Corporate
Technical Team
John M. Leask, P.Eng.
Director, Chair of Technical CommitteeMr. Leask has a Bachelor of Applied Science in geological engineering from the University of British Columbia (1980) and is a Professional Engineer. John has been involved with numerous public mining exploration and development companies over his 35-year career. He was founder, Chairman, and director of White Knight Resources Inc. which was acquired by U.S. Gold Corp., (now McEwen Mining Inc.) in 2007 for $160 million. Mr. Leask was also a founding director of Goldrock Mines Corp. Mr. Leask is a director of Regulus Resources Inc.
Robert Cuffney, Certified Professional Geologist
Technical Committee MemberMr Cuffney has more than 35 years of diverse domestic and international experience designing, organizing, managing, and conducting exploration programs for precious metals, base metals, uranium, coal, lithium and industrial minerals in the western United States, Alaska, Mexico, Indonesia, Fiji, Republic of Philippines, China, Chile, Mongolia and Australia. Robert served as Staff Geologist in charge of Newmont’s exploration program for sediment-hosted (Carlin-type) gold deposits in the Great Basin outside of the Carlin Trend: designed and executed exploration program for Carlin-type deposits in the Great Basin, researched and co-authored milestone in-house report which detailed characteristics of Carlin-type deposits worldwide and developed exploration models; served as Project Geologist for Bootstrap District, Carlin Trend: designed, managed and conducted delineation drilling of Tara gold deposit, bringing project from discovery stage through pre-development; directed district-wide exploration program; managed program to develop metallurgical-grade limestone deposit in Bootstrap Limestone for use in mine operations. Trained as ore-control/ mine geologist at Bluestar/Genesis gold mine.
Vic Chevillon, B.S., M.A., C.P.G.
Technical Committee Member2025 will be Mr Chevillon’s 53rd field season. He has worked mostly for major mining companies in the Americas after his first industry job in 1972 as Geologic Field Assistant with Mine Finders in Colorado, a Junior Company founded by Dr. Stewart Wallace and his group who discovered deep Climax Mo and the Henderson Mo mine, both still operating today. He then worked with Noranda, Homestake, Placer Dome, and Barrick before starting Chevillon Exploration Consulting in 2006. He is credited with:
- Deriving key stratigraphic and diagenetic cobalt mineralization controls at the Blackbird Idaho discovery (Noranda, 1977-8)
- Generating the New World Au, Cu, Ag Montana deal and making the high grade, diatreme/contact replacement deposit discoveries (Noranda. 1988-91)
- Leading Placer Dome Exploration’s acquisition of the Getchell/Turquoise Ridge Au district, Nevada that lead to the current Au mine discoveries (Placer Dome, 1998-99)
- Making the Cordero Ag, Pb, Zn, Au porphyry district discovery in Chihuahua, Mexico (Levon Resources, 2009-2019) as VP Exploration (now owned by Discovery Silver Corporation)