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Ralph Fitch
President, CEO and Director |
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Mr. Fitch, the
founder of South American Silver Corp., High Desert Gold
Corporation and their parent, General Minerals Corporation, is a
creative geologist with over forty years of international
exploration management and field experience. His prior positions
included Chief Geologist (Worldwide) and Manager of United States
Exploration for the Chevron Minerals Group. His broad exploration
experience includes living and exploring in the British Isles,
Australia, West Africa (Liberia), South Africa and the United
States, as well as extensive exploration experience in South
America.
Mr. Fitch was
awarded the Chevron Chairman’s Award for his part in the discovery
of the Ujina ore body at the Collahuasi copper porphyry project in
northern Chile, for which he initiated the use of, interactively
processed and interpreted the Landsat/Spot satellite images. He
also directed the ore reserve estimations for the Lisheen zinc
project in Ireland, another Chevron discovery, and the Stillwater
platinum group metals project in Montana while he was Chief
Geologist. Chevron’s interests in Collahuasi and Lisheen, which
have been developed into mines, were sold for $260 million.
Earlier in his career he was involved in the discovery of the
mineralization at the Bend and Horseshoe massive sulphides in
Wisconsin, the Henkries uranium deposit in the Northern Cape in
South Africa, the Coppins Gap Archaen porphyry copper molybdenum
deposit in the Pilbara in West Australia, and the Pah-My-Yah
diamond field in Liberia.
Mr. Fitch received his B.Sc. (Special) Honours Degree in Geology
from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London in
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Randall L. Moore
Executive Vice President of
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Mr. Moore (age 55) is the Executive Vice-President of Exploration of the
Company and has over 30 years of mineral exploration experience.
Prior to 2004, Mr. Moore was an independent consulting geologist
and Resources Specialist for the State of Oregon. From 2004 to
September 2007, Mr. Moore was the Vice-President of North American
Exploration of General Minerals Corporation (now Sprott Resource
Corp.). Following completion of the Offering, Mr. Moore will
devote all of his working time to the affairs of the Company. Mr.
Moore is a Professional Geologist and has worked as the senior
U.S. geologist for Cambior Exploration USA, Inc. (“Cambior”) from
1989 until 2000 when Cambior suspended exploration activities.
Prior to his work with Cambior he worked for St. Joe Gold
Corporation, Bond Gold Corporation, Noranda Inc., and Duval
Corporation (a subsidiary of Pennzoil Corp.).
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Richard Doran
Vice President,
Investor Relations |
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Mr. Doran (age 65) is the Executive Vice-President
of Investor Relations and Secretary of the Company and has over 28
years of mineral exploration experience. From 1995 to 2004, Mr.
Doran was the Manager of Investor Relations of General Minerals
Corporation (now Sprott Resource Corp.) and was the Vice-President
of Investor Relations of General Minerals Corporation from 2004 to
September 2007. He has been the Executive Vice President of
Investor Relations of SASC since September 2006. He will continue
in his role as a senior officer with SASC following completion of
the Offering. Mr. Doran has a professional engineering degree
from the Colorado School of Mines and Masters of Science from
Pennsylvania State University |
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William Filtness
Chief Financial Officer |
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Mr. Filtness
(age 53) is Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Mr. Filtness is a
Chartered Accountant (B.C., 1980). Mr. Filtness has been involved in
the mining industry since 1987 as a director or officer of a number of
public companies. From 1995 to 2001, Mr. Filtness held a number of
positions with Aurizon Mines Ltd., a TSX listed junior gold producer,
including Manager, Corporate Development. Since 2001, Mr. Filtness
has been Senior Consultant of Malaspina Consultants Inc., a private
company that provides accounting and administrative infrastructure to
junior public companies. Since 2004, Mr. Filtness has been President
of KCT Consulting Inc., a private company that provides financial
consulting services to junior public companies. His services as Chief
Financial Officer are provided through KCT Consulting Inc. Mr.
Filtness has been Chief Financial Officer of General Minerals
Corporation (now Sprott Resource Corp.) since June 2003 and the Chief
Financial Officer of SASC since September 2006. Mr. Filtness intends
to resign as Chief Financial Officer of Sprott Resource Corp. as soon
as a replacement chief financial officer has been appointed. He will
continue to be the chief financial officer of SASC following
completion of the Offering. Mr. Filtness is also the Chief Financial
Officer of NEMI Northern Energy and Mining Inc., a TSX listed company,
(since November 2003) and is Corporate Secretary of i-minerals inc., a
TSX Venture Exchange listed company (since November 2002). Mr.
Filtness was Chief Financial Officer of Mesa Resources Inc., a TSX
Venture Exchange listed company, from May 2001 to February 2004. |
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Paul
Haber
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Mr. Haber (age 37) is a director of the Company. He is the
Managing Director of Haber and Co. Ltd., a consulting firm. From
2004 to March 2007, he was the Vice-President, Chief Financial
Officer and Corporate Secretary of QuStream Corporation, a
manufacturing company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (QVC).
From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Haber held various positions with Protana
Inc., formerly MDS Proteomics Inc., including Senior
Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer (2004), Vice-President
Finance, Corporate Controller and Treasurer (2002-2004) and
Director of Finance and Corporate Controller (2001-2002). Mr.
Haber is a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Public Accountant. |
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W. Paul |
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Mr. Paul (age 61) is a
director of the Company. Mr. Paul has over 20 years experience in
the mining and petroleum industries. Prior to his retirement in
June 2006, Mr. Paul held various legal positions with Chevron
Corporation since 1988. From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Paul was the Legal
Department Manager of Chevron Munaigas Inc. in Almaty, Kazakhstan
and from 1999 to 2001, he was the Legal Department Manager of
Chevron Niugini in Cairns, Australia and Port Moresby, Papua New
Guinea. Mr. Paul has a B.B.A., M.B.A. and J.D. and is admitted to
the state bars of Colorado and California. |
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| John
M. Watson |
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Mr. Watson
(age 57) is a director of the Company and has over 30 years
experience in the mineral resource industry. Mr. Watson is the
President and Chief Executive Officer of Gold Standard Royalty
Corporation, which acquires and creates natural resource royalties
with a specific emphasis on mineral royalties from both
exploration and producing properties. From 2002 to 2007, Mr.
Watson was the President of Pan-Nevada Gold Corporation, which
prior to its plan of arrangement with Midway Gold Corp. was a TSX
Venture Exchange listed company focused on the acquisition,
exploration and expansion of advanced stage gold projects in
Nevada. Mr. Watson is also the Manager/Member of Watson &
Associations, LLC (since 1997), which owns and manages an
office/retail complex in Evergreen, Colorado. Mr. Watson holds a
B.A. in Geology from the University of Texas and an M.Sc. in
Mineral Economics from the Colorado School of Mines. |
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Tina M. Woodside |
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Ms. Woodside (age 43) is a director of the Company. She has been
a partner with the Canadian law firm Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
(formerly Smith Lyons LLP) since 1996. Ms. Woodside has advised
numerous Canadian and foreign companies
involved in the mining sector on a wide range of matters including
public offerings and mergers and acquisitions. She has her B.A.
and LL.B from Queen’s University and is a graduate of the
Institute of Corporate Directors/Rotman School of Business
Directors’ Education Program and has been awarded the designation
“ICD.D” (certified director). |
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Head Office
Vancouver,
BC - Canada
Exploration Office
High Desert Gold Corporation
580 Hornby Street
Suite 880
Vancouver, BC V6C3B6
Telephone: (604) 684-0693
Fax: (303) 684-0642 |
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Exploration Office
Denver, Colorado - USA
High
Desert Gold Corporation
4201 East Yale Avenue
Suite 230
Denver, Colorado 80222
Telephone: (303) 584-0606
Fax: (303)
758-2063 |
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