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| | | Dr. Edward A. Schiller
Dr. Schiller brings over 30 years experience in mineral exploration, project management, acquisitions, financing, joint venture negotiations and corporate governance to the Company. Born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he graduated with a degree in geology from Michigan State University in 1956, and obtained his Ph.D. in mineralogy at the University of Utah in 1963. Dr. Schiller was the Resident Geologist of the Northwest Territories Geological Survey of Canada from 1964-1966. He has lived and worked in Canada, the United States, England, Australia, Brazil, Columbia, and has conducted mineral exploration projects in several South and Central American, African and South East Asian countries, including Madagascar. Dr. Schiller has consulted for the United Nations on a gemstone project in Mozambique and a mining project in Greece. He has visited other countries on mining related projects, including Vietnam, Botswana and diamond mines in Yakutia, Russia and China.
Dr. Schiller is a former director of Dia Met Minerals Ltd., and is best known for supervising the drilling which led to discovery of the first diamond-bearing kimberlite at Pointe Lake in 1991 (now part of the Ekati Mine production). He has written extensively on the Lac de Gras diamond discoveries and has presented several papers on this subject at national and international meetings. Dr. Schiller writes for several Canadian and international magazines on mining and mineral exploration and maintains a consulting practice.
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| | | Mr. James Allan
James Allan is a geological engineer with over forty years experience with major mining and petroleum companies including Amax Exploration Ltd. and Unocal Canada Ltd. He has held senior positions in mining exploration and exploration management, property evaluation and mining geology. Jim conducted and managed exploration and evaluation programs for a wide variety of mineral commodities in Canada, the United States, Latin America, the Philippines, Australia and the former Soviet Union (CIS) resulting in a number of mineral discoveries and property acquisitions. Jim was manager of mineral exploration for Unocal/Molycorp in Canada from 1982 to 1990 where he evaluated a number of rare earth properties in Canada and the United States and managed an advanced exploration program on a rare earth deposit in eastern Canada.
As an independent consultant, he has evaluated mineral deposits, prospects and exploration areas and managed field exploration projects for several clients. He has also conducted due diligence studies, written qualifying reports, reviewed qualifying reports for the Canadian stock exchange and conducted, as a senior member of separate teams, major evaluations for the Canadian federal government and the World Bank, including a past producing rare earth mining complex in central Asia.
Mr. Allan has a BASc (Geological Engineering) from the University of British Columbia and an M.Sc (Geology, Engineering) from Queens University and will act as Forum's Qualifying Person on its rare earth exploration and acquisition activities. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the Provinces of Alberta and British Columbia.
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