Directors
Walter Segsworth, FEC, FCIM
Director, Chair
Walter Segsworth has over 50 years of experience in mining throughout Canada and overseas and has served as a senior officer of several mining companies including Westmin Resources, where he was President, CEO and Director, and Homestake Mining Company, where he was President, COO and Director. Since the 1990s, Mr. Segsworth has been a Director and Chair of several mining, exploration and power companies as well as being Chair of the Board of Science World for many years. He is currently a member of the Safety and Security Committee of TRIUMF, Canada’s Particle Accelerator. Mr. Segsworth is past Chair of the Mining Association of British Columbia and the Mining Association of Canada and was named B.C.’ s Mining Person of the year in 1996. He is a 1971 graduate of the Mining Engineering program at Michigan Technological University.
David Blann, P.Eng.
Director
Mr. Blann has been engaged in precious and base metal exploration, development and production stage projects for over 30 years. He has worked predominantly in Western Canada with experience within the U.S.A., West Africa and reconnaissance in Chile and Mexico. Within central British Columbia, Canada, Mr. Blann has been involved in the discovery of a number of epithermal gold-silver and porphyry copper systems. Mr. Blann has been a director or vice president of several junior mining companies and designed the strategy and assembled the projects as founder of Happy Creek Minerals Ltd. He received a diploma in Mining Engineering Technology from BCIT in 1984 and a B.Sc. in Geological Engineering from Montana Tech, Butte, Montana in 1987.
Rodger Gray
Director
Mr. Gray has years of experience as a senior officer of IDA member firms. He currently maintains a licence through Pollitt and Co. in Toronto. He is the founder and past president of St. James Securities and Toll Cross Securities, where he specialized in the junior resource market.
