Mr. Stewart has over 45 years of domestic and international experience in mining and exploration for gold, uranium, base metals and copper. During his career, Elmer has been involved in the financing, acquisition and exploration of base metal and gold projects as well as the development and construction of two underground mines and the construction and operation of three open pit gold mines. Elmer was instrumental in diversifying the Company’s project portfolio throughout North America, led the 2013 Feasibility Study on the Schaft Creek project and was directly involved with negotiating the Schaft Creek Joint Venture Agreement with Teck Resources Limited.  Elmer negotiated the acquisition of the Van Dyke and Sombrero Butte projects and supervised the work to advance the Van Dyke project from an exploration to a development stage project.  More recently, Elmer recognized the mineral potential of the area comprising the Mineral Mountain project and negotiated the acquisition of the Eaglehead porphyry copper project