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Management Team

Peter Hooper

President and CEO

B.Sc., Mining Engineering

A senior mining executive with broad-based experience in production, engineering, reorganization and training, contracting, exploration and corporate affairs, Peter has a long track record in the mining industry in South Africa, Canada, Australia and Ghana. He has provided consulting engineering to projects in Canada, USA, Cuba, Columbia, Venezuela, Mexico, Chile, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Australia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia and France.
Peter was the General Superintendent, Mine Manager, of Beaver Lodge Uranium Mine 1978 -1981, a mine that produced 4,000,000 lbs of uranium and belonged to Eldorado Nuclear, a government-owned agency which was later privatized and became Cameco Uranium, currently the largest producer of uranium in the world. During Peter's tenure the mine was modernized and mechanized. The digital equipment used world-wide to monitor uranium and radiation by-products was designed by the Canadian Government laboratories and tested at the mine during this period. As a consultant, Peter spent two years on a project exploring ways to handle and store the hot radiometric waste produced from Canada's Candu nuclear reactors.

Laurence Stefan

Managing Director, Peru

M.Sc. (Geology & Mining Engineering) & Ph.D. (Economic Geology)

Laurence Stefan is the founder of the Colibri Group of Companies in Peru and Managing Director of Minera Colibri. He has conducted metallurgical and mineralogical evaluation of over 200 mining and exploration projects throughout Central and South America, Europe, Africa and Asia and has compiled in excess of 1000 in-house reports: geological, mineralogical, mineral processing, engineering, mining activity, structural set-up, exploration strategies, resource/reserve evaluation and financial modelling.
He has deep operational experience in the fields of exploration, processing, pilot mining, legal evaluation, labor and social interaction in South America over the past twelve years. He has been involved in basic and specialised research in uranium metallurgical, recovery and enrichment programs at various gold-uranium mines along the Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa.

Philip Gibbs

Chief Financial Officer

Chartered Management Accountant

A Chartered Management Accountant with extensive financial management experience in large corporate environments in the manufacturing and retail sectors, both in North America and in Africa. Philip's multi-disciplinary exposure includes areas of Market Research, Logistics and IT Systems implementations, providing a broad base of business acumen suited to growing businesses.