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Mike Basha VP of Exploration |
| Mr Basha is a professional engineer and geologist with over 35 years experience working for major and junior exploration and mining companies in Canada, USA, Mexico, Ecuador and Finland. He has generated and worked on many grassroots to advanced exploration projects for a variety of mineral commodities. He was co-discoverer of the Hammerdown gold deposit in Newfoundland early in his career. As former VP Exploration of Cornerstone Resources Ltd, he was instrumental in helping establish them in Ecuador. Cornerstone was recently acquired by Solgold Plc for $120 million. He is also the founder and former CEO and President of Aurion Resources Ltd, with assets in Northern Finland. While at Aurion he acquired, primarily through staking, approximately 80 km along the Sirkka Shear Zone, which forms the basis of the Aurion-B2Gold Joint Venture, and which hosts the Helmi Gold Prospect adjacent to Rupert Resources Ikkari Gold deposit. Mr Basha staked the core of Aurion’s holdings in Finland and under Mr Basha’s direction Aurion exploration teams made multiple discoveries including the high-grade Aamurusko, Launi and Notches gold prospects among others. He negotiated the acquisition of the Kaareselka Project from Tertiary Minerals. He also negotiated the acquisition of the Silasselka Vanadium Prospect from Dragon Mining which was sold to Strategic Minerals. He was also instrumental in bringing B2Gold and Kinross into Finland as Joint Venture partners and investors. |
