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Advisors
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Robert D. Willis, B.Sc., P.Eng. (Retired)
Senior Advisor
Robert Willis has worked in the mineral resources industry for more than 35 years and currently holds the role of Senior Advisor for Sun Summit Minerals. He has founded several junior mining companies, including Pioneer Metals Corp., Manhattan Minerals Corp, Geologix Exploration, and San Marco Resources (now Sun Summit Minerals), where he held a variety of executive roles such as President, Director and CEO. Under his leadership, he successfully acquired and managed the startup of several producing mines, including the Stibnite heap leach gold mine (Idaho) and the Moris open pit heap leach gold property (Mexico), as well as advanced exploration at the Silbak Premier gold and silver property (Golden Triangle, B.C.) and the Tambo Grande copper-gold VMS deposit (Peru). Mr. Willis graduated in 1973 from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology.
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Christopher Leslie, Ph.D., P.Geo.
Geological Consultant, Technical Advisor
Christopher Leslie is an economic geologist with experience in project generation, project evaluation and district-scale targeting in porphyry to epithermal environments. Past roles included Vice President Exploration for Tower Resources Ltd., Senior Project Geologist for Richfield Ventures Corp. where he was an integral member of the discovery team at the Blackwater Gold Mine, as well as roles in mineral exploration and government geoscience, working on numerous deposit styles both in grassroots exploration and in production. Mr. Leslie has a Ph.D. in economic geology from CODES, University of Tasmania, an M.Sc. in geological sciences from the University of British Columbia and a B.Sc. in geological sciences from the University of Alberta. Mr. Leslie is a registered Professional Geoscientist with APEGBC.