A former Vice President of Barclays Bank of Canada, Mr. Enghdahl has been involved in leadership of different public companies, including Pacific & Western Trust, Shore Gold Inc., Claude Resources Inc. He was also the Regional Advisory Partner of the corporate finance arm of one of Western Canada’s largest accounting firms. This position came as a result of the accounting firm’s purchase of Cascadia Ventures Inc., a corporate financing and consulting group responsible for raising project financing in excess of $100 million of which he was Managing Partner.
He is also a former President, CEO & Director of Great Western Mineral Group Ltd. (“GWMG”) as well as a former Director for Great Western Diamonds (“GWD”), both are publicly traded companies listed on the TSX. During his tenure, the companies were involved in advanced development of a Rare Earth deposit as well as exploration of a diamond bearing kimberlitic deposit in Saskatchewan. Subsequently GWD was sold in 2009 so the company could maintain focus on building one of the world’s premiere Rare Earth companies.
During his 7 years at GWMG Jim was responsible for raising over $150,000,000 for the company as well as acquiring one of the highest-grade Rare Earth mines in the world via a creeping takeover. During this time, he was also responsible for the acquisition of one of the only Rare Earth alloy plants outside of China providing key magnet alloys to most of the Rare Earth magnet users of the world.
Darren Slugoski, P.Geo.
Chief Geologist
James Schulte, B.Sc. (Hons)
Geologist
James has a B.Sc. (Hons) in Geological Sciences and Chemistry from the University of Saskatchewan and is currently working on a Master’s degree in Environmental Geochemistry. He is also a registered GIT with APEGS.
James has worked in exploration and environmental projects in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Yukon, including green field exploration, resource drilling, geochemical surveys of tailings ponds, and industrial scale laboratory experiments, as well as experience in orogenic and epithermal gold and VMS zinc-copper-gold deposits.
James’s skills include project management, logistical planning, geochemistry, data compilation, QA/QC implementation, drill hole targeting, core logging, technical writing, permitting and geological mapping / prospecting.