RESUMES



Principals of WMA

 

William C. Bagby

Education University of California, San Diego: B.A., Biology, 1971
University of California, Santa Cruz: Ph.D., Earth Science, 1979
Fluent in Spanish, some German

Continuing Education Courses
2004:   National Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice Course and Examination (passed): The Appraisal Foundation

2003:  Minerals Appraisal Symposium: The Centre for Advanced Property Economics

2000:  Geochemical Methods for Buried Ore Deposits: Geological Society of Nevada

1997:  Leached Capping Appraisal in Porphyry Copper Deposits: Geological and Exploration Associates

1995:  GIS Applications using MapInfo Software: MapInfo Corporation

1994:  Soil and Groundwater Contamination and Remediation: Geological Society of America

1992:  Leadership Training: United States Geological Survey

1991:  Supervisor's and Manager's Training in Equal Employment Opportunity: United States Geological Survey

1990:  High Output Management: CareerTrack Seminars

1982:  Quantitative Chemistry of High-Temperature Geothermal Fluids: Geothermal Resources Council

1980: : Economic Evaluation and Investment Decision Methods: Colorado School of Mines

Certification

Certified Member American Institute of Minerals Appraisers (AIMA), #2006-3
California Registered Geologist, #7395
Wyoming Professional Geologist, #PG-2581
A Qualified Person for Canadian 43-101 stock-exchange purposes for many deposit types
Membership
Fellow, Society of Economic Geologists
The Association of Applied Geochemists
SME - Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration
Geological Society of America
American Institute of Mineral Appraisers

2002 - Present

Founding Member of Western Mineral Appraisers LLC
1998 - Present
Golden Gryphon Explorations, Inc. Senior Geologist and part owner. Exploration for gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc deposits in Nevada, USA.
1992 - Present
Metallan International. Economic geology consulting practice involved in the geologic and economic evaluation of gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, and tungsten mineral properties in North and South America and China.
1982 - 1992
United States Geological Survey. Chief, Branch of Western Mineral Resources, responsible for mineral-resource assessment and research in the western United States. Program Coordinator, Strategic and Critical Minerals Program, responsible for obtaining and allocating research funds for mineral-resource research projects in the Survey. Research Geologist, Western Mineral Resources, responsible for project research on Carlin-type gold deposits and on mineral-resource assessment methods.
1980 - 1982
Homestake Mining Company. Geologist, Exploration Research, responsible for developing exploration strategies based upon research at the McLaughlin gold deposit in California, USA.
1979 - 1980
Chevron Resources, Geologist, Project Evaluations, responsible for the geologic evaluation of a volcanic-hosted uranium deposit at the McDermitt caldera complex in Nevada, USA and of the underground silver resource in the Amethyst vein system at Creede, Colorado, USA.
1979 - Present
As above, have undertaken evaluations of mineral properties in: United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Spain, and China.

 

 

Fred Barnard

Education University of California, Berkeley, B.A. Geology, 1963
University of Colorado, Boulder, Ph.D. Geology, 1968
Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, some French

Continuing Education Courses
2006:  USPAP Update Course, by ASFMRA

2003:  Minerals Appraisal Symposium: The Centre for Advanced Property Economics

1995:  GIS Applications using MapInfo Software: MapInfo Corporation


Certification

Certified Member American Institute of Minerals Appraisers (AIMA) #2006-2
California Registered Geologist #7432
A Qualified Person for Canadian 43-101 stock-exchange purposes for many deposit types
Membership
Fellow, Society of Economic Geologists
Geological Society of America
American Institute of Mineral Appraisers

2002-Present

Founding Member of Western Mineral Appraisers LLC
1991- 2003
Founder and Principal of Mining Profiles, producing summary reports on mining investment conditions in each of 70 countries.
1985- Present
Consulting Economic Geologist in private practice, working in exploration and property evaluations in USA and 20+ other countries. Clients have included mining companies, investors, World Bank, others.
1979-1985
Anaconda Minerals (Denver), Senior Geologist and Manager in International Exploration Group, evaluations and project management in Mexico and 10 other countries.
1968- 1979
Geologist, International Nickel Co. (Guatemala, Toronto, Denver). Various positions in Guatemalan and other overseas nickel projects, and Western USA metals and uranium exploration.
1968 - Present
As above, have undertaken evaluations of mineral properties in Alaska, Canada, USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Rep., Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Australia, South Africa, Madagascar, Burundi, Cameroon, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, DRC/Zaire, Morocco, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Turkey, Indonesia, Philippines, Georgian Rep., Oman, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyz Rep., Russia, Mongolia, China, Tibet.

 

 

Sidney S. Alderman

Education
Woodberry Forest School, 1943
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, BS, Geology, 1949

Certification

California Registered Geologist #1000
Membership
Fellow, Society of Economic Geologists
Mining and Metallurgical Society of America
SME - Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration
American Institute of Minerals Appraisers

1981- Present

Private consulting practice. Alderman, Slothower & Associates.
1975- 1981
Vice President, Lake Minerals Corp., California trona producer purchased in 1981 by Cominco America
1967- 1981
Vice President, Agricultural & Industrial Minerals, Inc., an international consulting firm located in San Carlos, California
1963- 1967
Chief Geologist, Texada Mines, Ltd., Palo Alto, California. Manager of phosphate, potash, base and precious metal exploration and development activities in Peru, Australia, and North America.
1954- 1963
Geologist, Kern County Land Company, Salt Lake City, Utah. Mineral Exploration in North America, Mexico, Peru, and French Guiana.
1953- 1954
Geologist, United Geophysical Corp., Pasadena, California, hard mineral exploration department, merged into Kern County Land Company in 1954.
1949- 1954
Geologist, The American Metal Co., Ltd. (now Phelps Dodge), exploration department. Base and precious metal exploration projects in North America, Cuba, Spain, North Africa and Venezuela.

 

 

 
 
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