Neil Novak, John Harvey, Pat Chance
and Richard Nemis at our 2007 AGM
David Graham and Maurice Stekel
(Noront Directors) at our 2007 AGM
Michael White from IBK Capital,
one of our financial advisors at our 2007 AGM
Richard Nemis and John Harvey at our 2007 AGM
Pat Chance and John Harvey at our
Windfall Lake-Camp in early 2007
Ray Penny (middle) and John Harvey at our
Windfall Lake-Camp in early 2007
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Noront Resources is a mineral
exploration company whose activities, since its incorporation,
have focused on the exploration for gold, base metals and has at
times during its history, extended its attention to the
exploration for diamonds and industrial minerals in Canada.
Since 1983, Noront Resources has been an active resource
explorer throughout Ontario, New Brunswick, Quebec, Inner
Mongolia China and Mexico.
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President and CEO,
Director |
RICHARD NEMIS B.A., LLB (Bio) |
| Chief Operating
Officer |
JOHN HARVEY P. Eng. (Bio) |
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Vice-President
Corporate
and Aboriginal Affairs,
Director |
NEIL NOVAK (Bio) |
Vice-President,
Special Projects,
Director |
DAVID GRAHAM (Bio) |
| Chief Financial
Officer |
KEVIN FEENEY C.A.
(BIO) |
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| Chief Geologist |
JAMES E. MUNGALL
PhD., P.Geo (BIO) |
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Vice-President,
Legal
and Business Affairs |
CARMEN DIGES, LL.M,
CFA (BIO) |
| Project Manager,
Windfall Lake |
PATRICK CHANCE (Bio) |
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| Director |
PAUL PARISOTTO (Bio) |
| Director |
JOHN DOUGLAS BLANCHFLOWER (Bio) |
| Director |
MAURICE H. STEKEL (Bio) |
| Consultant |
BOB BRYCE (Bio) |
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RICHARD NEMIS B.A., LLB
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| President and CEO, Director |
Highlights
Born in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada 1938
Education
St. Charles College, Sudbury, Ontario -University of Ottawa
graduated with BA degree. Graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School
and called to the bar in the Province of Ontario as Barrister
and Solicitor in 1968.
History
President and CEO Noront Resources Ltd. Mr. Nemis since 1980 has
been the President of Noront Resources Ltd. Noront has funded
the exploration and discovery of what may be the largest and
richest antimony deposit in the world. The mine was put into
production but due to poor antimony prices, was put on a care
and standby basis by Roycefield Resources.
Mr. Nemis was
president and CEO of Central Crude Ltd. until its merger to
become River Gold Mines Inc. During the period in which Mr.
Nemis was its President, Central Crude discovered, developed and
financed over $35 million to further develop two deposits. The
first gold deposit being the Eagle River Deposit near Mishibishu
Lake (south of Hemlo, Ontario) where River Gold is currently in
operation and secondly, to delineate the Moss Lake Deposit,
Thunder Bay area, Ontario, where reserves were estimated at 92
million tones, grading .0265 Au/ton.
"Mr. Nemis was associated
with a Mr. V.N. Harbinson and associated with a number of the
Harbinson group of companies, Consolidated Durham Mines, Spooner
Mines and Oils, Dominion Explorers, Noble Mines and Oils,
Onaping Resources to name a few."
Mr. Nemis currently is a
senior member and part owner of the largest structural steel
firm in northern Ontario, operating since 1946 out of Sudbury. |
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JOHN HARVEY P. Eng. |
| Chief Operating Officer |
Highlights
Formerly Executive Vice President, Mr. Harvey has been appointed
Chief Operating Officer of Noront.
Mr. Harvey worked with Noranda Inc. from the early 1960s and was
President of Noranda Exploration from 1982 until his early
retirement in 1994. He was also President of Hemlo Gold Mines
from 1989 until 1992. Before Noranda, Mr. Harvey was VP –
Exploration for Mattagami Lake Mines which merged with Noranda
in 1982.
Mr. Harvey is actively involved with the McFaulds Lake Base
Metal Camp through his affiliation with Noront Resources Ltd.,
as well as a board member of the following Ring of Fire
companies; Tribute Minerals Inc., Canadian Ore Bodies Inc.,
Freewest Resources Canada Inc. and GoldEye Explorations Ltd. |
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NEIL NOVAK |
| Vice-President Corporate and Aboriginal Affairs,
Director |
Highlights
Mr. Novak originally joined the Board of Noront in 2001 and was
appointed VP Exploration in November 2007. In recognition of his
long-standing relationship with Aboriginal peoples throughout
his career, Neil Novak has been appointed Vice-President
Corporate and Aboriginal Affairs for Noront.
Mr. Novak's professional experience has spanned exploration
projects in uranium, gold, diamonds and other precious metals,
as well as base metals.
Mr. Novak started his career as project geologist for the
Canadian operations of Australian based uranium explorer
Pancontinental Mining Ltd. between 1977 and 1983. In 1983 he
left Pancontinental and formed a private consulting company,
Nominex Ltd., and as managing director of Nominex, Mr. Novak
became involved with and managed various North American and
International exploration assignments, including base metal and
diamond projects in the James Bay Lowlands of Northern Ontario,
in the area now known as the "Ring of Fire".
Mr. Novak helped form (in 1992) and eventually became an active
board member and senior officer of Spider Resources Inc., in
1995 and remained as such through to early 1999. Neil was
re-elected to the Board of Spider in September 1999, and was
appointed President and CEO of Spider in June 2005.
In addition to being a board member of Noront and Spider, Mr.
Novak is a member of the board of directors of other public
companies including Simberi Mining Corporation, and Cadillac
Ventures Inc. |
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DAVID GRAHAM |
| Vice-President, Special Projects, Director |
Highlights
Mr Graham joined the board of Noront in December 2006, and has
been appointed Vice-President, Special Projects for Noront.
In 1986 Mr. Graham became President of R. Bruce Graham and
Associates Ltd. a mining consulting firm that has served the
mineral industry since 1956. Mr. Graham has over twenty five
years of experience in the industry and has served as a director
and manager of a number of private and public natural resource
and mining concerns.
His relevant experience has been in the fields of base and
precious metals, uranium and industrial minerals and materials.
Mr. Graham has worked in Canada, the United States, Scandinavia
and Africa. |
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KEVIN FEENEY |
| Chief Financial Officer |
Highlights
Mr. Feeney brings significant financial and strategic
experience to the Noront team.
Most recently, in his capacity as Vice President, North American
Investments, Finance and Operations for Sun Life Financial
Corporation, he was responsible for designing and implementing
processes to support Sun Life's North American investment
business.
Mr. Feeney was also a corporate design specialist in his role as
Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Labatt
Breweries of Canada (Interbrew S.A.) and was a key member of the
Interbrew global acquisition team that completed the USD$11B
transaction with Ambev, that resulted in a significant
consolidation of the global beer industry.
Mr. Feeney also held various positions with the Trimark group of
companies, including that of Chief Financial Officer and
Executive Vice- President for Trimark Investment Management Inc. |
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JAMES E. MUNGALL |
| Chief Geologist |
Highlights
Dr. Mungall joined the Noront team as a consultant in
October of 2007. He has been appointed Chief Geologist.
Dr. Mungall's professional experience has included consulting and
research work on magmatic Ni-Cu-Co-PGE deposits, chromitite,
magmatic Fe-Ti-V and IOCG and rareelement granites.
Dr. Mungall received M.Sc. and Ph.D degrees from McGill
University and has worked extensively in the exploration
business as a consultant since 1996. In 1999 he was appointed
Assistant Professor of Economic Geology at the University of
Toronto. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005 and was
named Norman Keevil Chair of Ore Genesis in 2007.
He has published extensively on the magmatic sulfide deposits of
the Sudbury and Raglan camps and has edited four books or
special journal issues on Ni-Cu-Co-PGE deposits. |
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CARMEN DIGES |
| Vice-President, Legal and Business Affairs |
Highlights
Ms. Diges has been Corporate Secretary of Noront since
2003. A partner at McMillan LLP, she has also been lead counsel
to the company during that time.
She now assumes the responsibilities of Vice President, Legal
and Business Affairs for Noront. Ms. Diges brings more than
fifteen years of legal experience in the mining sector,
encompassing strong international, capital markets, project
development, corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions
skills.
She has worked on transactions throughout six continents and her
clients have included governments, Canadian and international
issuers, investors and underwriters. |
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PATRICK CHANCE |
| Project Manager, Windfall Lake |
Highlights
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PAUL PARISOTTO |
| Director |
Highlights
Mr. Parisotto is currently President and Chief Executive Officer
of Arizona Star Resource Corp., which was acquired by Barrick
Gold Corporation for $773 million and Blacksands Petroleum,
Inc., a publicly traded US company focused on the acquisition,
exploration and development of conventional and unconventional
oil in western Canada. Blacksands owns a 75% interest in Access
Energy, a private company of which Mr. Parisotto is also
President and Chief Executive officer.
Mr. Parisotto has been President of Coniston Investment Corp.
from October 1999 to the present. Coniston is a private firm
specializing in providing investment banking services including
the raising of equity and debt and providing mergers and
acquisitions advisory services to small market capitalization
companies which are either private or public.
Prior to these current responsibilities, Mr. Parisotto was
Manager, Original Listings at The Toronto Stock Exchange from
1985 to 1994. During his tenure at the TSE he was involved in
the listing process for over 250 companies.
He has also been Senior Vice-President, Corporate Finance for
Marleau, Lemire Securities Inc. from January 1995 to January
1998 and was Vice-President and Director, Investment Banking for
HSBC Securities (Canada) Inc. from March 1998 to June 1999. He
was also director of Nevada Pacific Gold Ltd., a public company
acquired by US Gold Inc. in a share exchange take over bid for
over $100 million. |
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JOHN DOUGLAS BLANCHFLOWER |
| Director |
Highlights
University of British Columbia, B.Sc. Honours Geology, 1971.
Registered Professional Geoscientist Fellow of the Geological
Association of Canada.
Thirty-nine years of professional experience in economic mineral
exploration, including: five years of pre-graduate field
experience; twelve years as a project and district geologist
employed by Canadian Superior Exploration Limited and Sulpetro
Mines Limited (formerly St. Joseph Explorations Limited) and
twenty-two years as a geological consultant president of Minorex
Consulting Ltd.
Specialization in applied mineral exploration for bulk and lode
gold-silver, precious metal-bearing volcanogenic massive
sulphide (VMS), porphyry copper-molybdenum and porphyry
copper-gold deposits throughout the North American Cordillera. |
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MAURICE H. STEKEL |
| Director |
Highlights
Mr. Stekel became a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in
1958. He was honoured to be elected by the Council of The
Institute as a "Life Member" in November 2003.
He was a founding and senior partner in the firm of Birnbaum,
Prenick, Stekel & Co., Chartered Accountants. Founded in 1965,
their firm was ranked 23rd on the "Bottom Line's Top 30" list
in 1991. On June 1, 1993, Mr. Stekel changed his status to
"retired partner". He is continuing his consulting under the
auspices of his company Mo-Kar Holdings Inc.
Since 1971 he has been a licensed mortgage broker and is
president of BPS Management Limited.
Throughout Mr. Stekel's career, he has been extremely involved
in various aspects of the mining industry. Also, since 1963, he
has been appointed to hold directorships in numerous mining
companies. In addition he has held and continues to hold
directorships in various other corporations. |
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BOB BRYCE |
| Consultant |
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