Matt Halliday, P.Geo – President and COO
Matt has 15+ years of geological exploration and development experience in different metals around the world. He previously worked for SGS Canada, Kirkland Lake Gold and First Cobalt. Matt has identified the historical Silver-Cobalt Camp in Northern Ontario as having enormous potential for future silver-cobalt production and has moved to the area so that he can participate in its development and the resumption of mining.
Frank Basa, P.Eng. – Chairman and CEO
Mr. Basa is a distinguished metallurgist and milling expert who has over 35 years of global mining experience with expertise in project management, milling, gravity concentration, flotation, leaching and refining of precious and base metals. He is an expert in cobalt metallurgy, having worked in Ontario’s Cobalt Camp early in his career, when he designed, with the support of Canada’s National Research Council, a unique hydro-metallurgical process known as Re-2Ox for the recovery of multiple metals and elements from all feeds with varying chemistries. The process is environmentally compliant and undergoing optimization at SGS which is also designing and building a Re-2Ox pilot plant. He is a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario and a graduate of McGill University.