Murgor Resources's Profile

Management & Directors

• André C. Tessier

  President and CEO, Directior

  Mr. Tessier holds an engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique in Montréal and a Master`s degree in geology from Queen`s University in Kingston. He has over 20 years experience in the mineral industry and since 1994 has been an independent geological consultant specialising in structural geology and mineral exploration. Mr. Tessier has been involved in numerous exploration programs for major, and junior mining companies including regional surface exploration programs as well as underground and open-pit mine exploration projects. He has experience with a wide variety of deposit types in Canada, South America and Central Asia (Epithermal-Gold, Lode-Gold, Disseminated/VMS-Gold, Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide Cu-Zn-Pb ?Ag-Au, Carbonate Replacement Zn-Pb-Ag, Polymetallic Skarn, Porphyry-Cu and Unconformity-Type Uranium deposits). Mr. Tessier has been President of Murgor Resources since 2003. Mr. Tessier is also a Director of the company.

• Dr. C. Jay Hodgson

  Chairman of the Board, Director

  Dr. Hodgson is a Research Exploration Geologist with over 40 years of worldwide experience in base metal and precious metals exploration. He is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal and received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. From 1972 to 1995, Dr. Hodgson was Professor of Economic Geology at Queen’s University where he collaborated very closely with the mining industry. During his tenure at Queen’s he supervised over 50 graduate theses and published 45 scientific papers including several landmark articles on economic geology and exploration. Prior to joining Murgor, since 1996, Dr. Hodgson was Chief Geologist at Barrick Gold Corp. where he was in charge of designing and executing Barrick’s worldwide exploration programs while ensuring that Barrick maintained its technical edge among the gold exploration world. During his mandate at Barrick, Dr. Hodgson was involved with the discoveries and acquisitions of several world-class gold deposits such as Pierina and Alto Chicama in Peru, Pascua-Lama in Chile, Valadero in Argentina, and Bulyanhulu in Tanzania. Dr. Hodgson has brought an invaluable wealth of experience at Murgor along with his passion and enthusiasm for exploration. He has been with Murgor since 2006.

• Mackenzie I. Watson

  Director

  Mr. Watson has 40 years of exploration experience and has been involved in the discovery of numerous coal, base metals and gold deposits in Canada. He was awarded Canada’s Prospector of the Year Award in 1991 for his participation in the discovery of a number of deposits in Canada including the Harker Holloway Au Mine (On), the Icon- Sullivan Cu Mine (Qc), the Long Lac Zn Mine (On), the Elephant Au deposit (Qc) and the Hébécourt Cu deposit (Qc). He was also awarded the Quebec Prospector of the Year Award in 1992 for his participation in the discovery of the Pusticamica and Verneuil Au deposits in Quebec. Mr. Watson is President of Freewest Resources Canada Inc and a former President of the Company. He has been involved with Murgor for the past 21 years.

• Dr. Jean-Philippe Desrochers, PhD

  Vice-President Exploration

  Dr. Desrochers holds a PhD in geology from University of Montreal and has over 17 years experience in the mineral exploration industry in Canada, Central America and South America. He has been involved with intermediate and junior mining companies with exploration projects ranging from grassroots to mine-scale, at surface and underground. Dr. Desrochers specializes in the field of structural geology applied to ore deposits in the search for Archean lode gold, volcanogenic massive sulfides, porphyry copper, skarn, and epithermal gold deposits. Prior to joining Murgor, in 2005, he worked as a Principal Geologist with SRK Consulting in Canada.

• Isabelle Gauthier, CA

  CFO

  Ms. Gauthier is a Chartered Accountant and a graduate from Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). She has been a member of the Ordre des Comptables Agréés du Québec since 1998. From 1996 to 2006, she worked for the Chartered Accountant firm of Raymond, Chabot, Grant, Thornton as an auditor where she gained a solid experience in management and financial reporting for mining companies. Since 2006, Ms. Gauthier has been responsible for all accounting duties with SearchGold Resources Inc. and Golden Share Mining Corporation, two public companies in the junior mining sector, based in Montreal. She is now Chief Financial Officer for both companies.

• Neil W. Richardson, P. Geo,

  Manager of Exploration - Central Canada

  Mr. Richardson holds a Geological Engineering Technology diploma from Cambrian College in Sudbury, Ontario, and has over 20 years experience in the mineral exploration sector. He is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Manitoba and the Manitoba - Saskatchewan Prospectors Association. Prior to joining Murgor, Mr. Richardson was a Senior Exploration Geologist for HudBay Minerals Inc. in Flin Flon, Manitoba, where he was part of an exploration team that discovered a number of new mineralized zones throughout the Flin Flon Greenstone Belt. Mr. Richardson also worked as a Senior Mine Geologist for Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Co. Ltd. He also worked for several companies throughout Canada such as: LAC Minerals, Renabie Gold Mines Ltd, Curragh Resources, North American Metals and Dynatec Mining. Murgor benefits from Mr. Richardson’s in depth knowledge of the Flin Flon greenstone belt along with a wealth of experience in the exploration for gold, volcanogenic massive sulphides, magmatic nickel and skarn deposits. He joined Murgor in December of 2006.

• Director

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  Dr. Michael D. Doggett, Director:
  Dr. Doggett is a mineral economics consultant with more than 20 years of experience advising mining companies, governments and international agencies. He has also delivered short courses on mining project evaluation to more than 700 professionals in a dozen countries. Dr. Doggett is an Adjunct Professor at Queen's University, where he served as Director of the Mineral Exploration Master's Program from 1997 to 2007, and a visiting International Professor at the Western Australian School of Mines at Curtin University. He currently sits as a Director of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada and is a member of the Committee on Earth Resources at the US National Academy of Sciences.
  
  David W. Moore, Director:
  Mr. Moore is an Exploration Geologist with over 30 years worldwide experience in base and precious metals ranging from grassroots exploration to feasibility and development. He has great strength in project generation and management and has a proven track record of discovery. He was a key team member in the discovery and delineation of a number of mineral deposits including Kudz Ze Kayah (Yukon), Cerattepe (Turkey), Red Dog (Alaska) and Hackett River (Nunavut). Until recently, David was General Manager Exploration Business Development for Teck-Cominco Limited, where he led a group charged with the identification and acquisition of mining development projects and brown-fields opportunities. Prior to the merger with Teck, he was General Manager Global Exploration in which capacity he directed Cominco Ltd’s worldwide exploration efforts outside of the United States. He is now President and CEO of Serengeti Resources Inc, a very successful junior exploration company in based in Vancouver.
  
  Mark Eaton, Director:
  Mr. Eaton is a private investor and investment professional based in Toronto, with over 20 years of experience in equity capital markets specializing in the resource sector. Mr. Eaton is a graduate of Hull University in England. From 1985 to 1995, he worked in London, U.K. in institutional equity sales for several leading Canadian investment dealers. In 1995, Mr. Eaton worked in U.S. institutional equity sales for Tucker Anthony in Boston, then moved on to New York, where from 1996 to 1998, he served as Vice President of Global Mining Sales for Robert Fleming Ltd., a London based Merchant Bank. While at Robert Fleming Ltd., Mr. Eaton's responsibilities included the marketing of global mining and commodity research.

  From 1998 to 2007, Mr. Eaton held the position of Managing Director of Global Mining Sales, a division of CIBC World Markets of Toronto Canada. During this time Mr. Eaton also held the position of Manager of U.S. Equity Sales for CIBC World Markets, building its teams in Boston and New York to market the full Canadian products and services of CIBC World Markets. More recently, Mr. Eaton was a Partner and Director of Loewen Ondaatje McCutcheon Ltd., a Toronto-based investment dealer where he was also in charge of Sales and Research. Mr. Eaton is also on the Board of Directors of UEX Corporation, a Vancouver-based uranium exploration company trading on the TSX.
  

• Exploration Team

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  Kingston, Ont.

  Chan Quang, M.Sc., Senior Geologist
  Mr. Quang is a graduate of the University of British Columbia (B.Sc. Hons.) and Queen's University (M.Sc.). He has been active in mineral exploration for over 10 years with a number of major and junior mining companies. He has explored for gold and base metals in Canada, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Australia. He joined Murgor in 2006.
  
  Benjamin Batson, E.I.T., Project Geologist
  Mr. Batson is a graduate of Queen’s University in Kingston from the Geological Engineering - Mineral Exploration program. He has worked for five years as a geological consultant for several junior mining and exploration companies in gold and base metal exploration. He joined the Murgor Team in 2006.
  
  Nicole Chauvette, Administrative Assistant
  Ms. Chauvette joined Murgor in 2007. A Metallurgical Technologist by trade, formerly with Alcan for 17 years, she is in charge of office organization and effectiveness in Kingston and for the company at large. She is also largely responsible for inter-office standardization and book-keeping.
  
  Kathryn Kitney, E.I.T.
  Ms. Kitney is a Geological Engineer, graduate of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She joined Murgor in 2005 as a summer student and is now on leave while completing a Masters degree also at Queen’s. Murgor is proud to sponsor Kathryn’s research on the Barry Gold Deposit. Ms. Kitney is planning to return to full time employment with Murgor in the spring of 2008.
  
  Flin Flon, Man.

  Jaysen Johnson, G.I.T., Project Geologist
  Mr. Johnson is a recent graduate from Laurentian University with a B.Sc. (Hons.) in geology. He has two summers experience in the field of mineral exploration which include Cu-Ni-PGE exploration in the Sudbury Basin and gold exploration in the northern Abitibi. Jaysen started with Murgor as a student during the summer of 2006 and joined Murgor full time in the summer of 2007.
  
  Galen McNamara, G.I.T, Project Geologist
  Mr. McNamara is a recent graduate from Laurentian University with a B.Sc. (hons.) in geology. He has been involved in mineral exploration since 2004. Before joining Murgor in 2007, he has been involved with several other mineral exploration companies at both the greenfields and brownfields levels. Galen’s experience includes exploration for VMS, IOCG, Ni-Cu-PGE and Au-Cu deposits in Canada.
  
  Laura Spring, Administrative Assistant
  Ms. Spring joined Murgor in 2007 after three years of service with Major Drilling in Flin Flon. She is in charge of office organization and effectiveness in Flin Flon and acts as property manager for the company’s Manitoba and Saskatchewan properties.