John is a registered Professional Geologist, prospector and entrepreneur with over 35 years of experience in the mining industry. John has been involved in several notable discoveries, including the 5M oz Coffee Gold deposit in Yukon, the Three Bluffs gold deposit in the Committee Bay greenstone belt, the Aviat / Churchill diamond districts of Nunavut, and the Great Bear Project in north-western Ontario. Through his entrepreneurship, John has been instrumental in over $3B in mergers and acquisitions activity and has generated over $1B in direct and indirect mineral expenditures throughout Canada, Latin America, and Australia. Notable recent successes include the sales of Great Bear Resources Ltd.