Management

 

 

 

Charles J. Elbourne, MBA

President & CEO

Charles has over 45 years experience in the investment industry, including 25 years involvement in mineral exploration and mining originally starting with St. Anthony Resources Inc., TLC Explorations Inc., and more recently, TRI.

 

Charles has demonstrated considerable expertise in: (a) identifying and negotiating the rights to exploration properties, including the properties optioned by TRI; and (b) assembling management and operational teams, including geological and mining experts.

Charles started his career in the investment industry at Nesbitt Thompson Securities Ltd., while he continued with post-graduate studies at the University of Ottawa. After completing his B. Comm., Charles obtained his Diploma in Management Sciences, including a Masters in Business, with a concentration in Finance and Philosophy.

During that time, he also completed his course in Securities Analysis from the New York Institute of Finance. Subsequently, he spent 10 years as a Director and Resident Sales Manager of Deacon Hodgson, a national brokerage firm, and four years with Burns Fry, Yorkton and St. Lawrence Securities.

Upon resigning from St. Lawrence Securities, Charles established his own financial planning firm, Tax Advantages Inc. (a registered mutual fund dealer), C. J. Elbourne Securities Inc. (a licensed Securities Dealer), Greentree Insurance Agency Ltd., and Markinch Capital Corp. (“MCC”), a merchant bank.

 

Jon Li, CPA, MBA

CFO

Jon Li brings more than 20 years of finance experience with speciality in mining, technology and financial service industry. As the Vice President of WD Numeric, a full-service accounting firm that provides financial and support services for both public and private companies, Jon leads ongoing process improvement efforts, conducts quality control reviews of client files, and provides CFO services to a portfolio of clients.

 

Prior to WD Numeric, Jon was the Financial Controller at Strategic Pricing Management Group (SPMG) and was responsible for managing all financial activities of the company including set-up and maintenance of general ledger accounting system, budgeting, forecasting, cash management and financial reporting. Jon is a CPA (US & Canada) and holds a MBA with concentration in Accounting.

 

Quinton Hennigh, PhD (Geology & Geochemistry), P.Geo

Technical Advisor

Quinton is a globally renowned exploration geologist with 30+ years of precious metals mining experience. Quinton obtained his PhD in from the Colorado School of Mines.

 

Early in his career, he worked for major gold mining companies including Homestake Mining (now Barrick Gold Corp.), Newcrest Mining, and Newmont Corp. Later, he founded Novo Resources Corp (TSX-V: NVO), and now serves as Chairman. Quinton is also a Geologic & Technical Advisor to Crescat Capital (a significant investor in TRI).

Quinton has played a key role in major gold discoveries such as Novo’s Pilbara assets in Western Australia, First Mining Gold's Springpole gold deposit in Ontario, Kirkland Lake Gold's Fosterville gold mine in Australia, the Rattlesnake Hills gold deposit in Wyoming, and Lion One's Tuvatu gold project in Fiji, among many others. Quinton advises TRI on its exploration strategy and property portfolio management issues.

 

Russell Kwiatkowski, MBA

Director

Russell has been an avid and successful gold prospector and mineral exploration property optionor in Thunder Bay, Ontario during the past 45 years. Starting as an assistant geophysicist at Coldstream Mine (100 km west of Thunder Bay, Ontario), Russell then spent time with the Ontario Department of Mines and Northern Affairs’ field work teams.

 

Early in his career, Russell benefited from the mentorship of such renowned geologists as Fred R. Harris, Frederick B. Johnson, and Dr. E. G. Pye. In addition, his knowledge of geology was augmented by attending graduate level courses offered by Dr. Trevor Page and Dr. Edward Mercy (Professor Emeritus) at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay where he received a B.Sc(1969), a B.Ed(1970), an HBA (1976), including an M.Edin Business Administration (1982).

Along with his son Derrick, Russell received the prestigious 2004 Discovery of the Year Award from the Northwestern Ontario Prospectors Association for the Larose Project located 100 km west of the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Russell has recently been working closely with the First Nations, Lac des Mille Lacs Band and the Ontario Ministry of Northern Development to develop a template prospectors’ Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to facilitate relationships between First Nations and mining companies.

In 2015, Russell was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding work and continuous dedication to prospecting in Northwestern Ontario.

 

Rodney Barber, B.Sc., P.Geo

Director

Rodney is a senior geologist with extensive experience in exploration and production. He was most recently employed as the Geology Superintendent for the Barrick’s Williams Mine at Hemlo, Ontario (2010-2018), a position he reached after joining the company in 2001 as a Mine Geologist and rising through the ranks to Senior Production Mine Geologist (2003), Senior Resource Geologist (2006) and Chief Geologist in 2008.

 

In his most recent role at Hemlo, Rodney was responsible for extending the life of the mine by at least 18 years through the discovery and delineation of over 4.5 million oz of gold in reserves and resources. Rodney was also responsible for all aspects of production geology and exploration in the Williams underground and open pit mines as well as the preparation of NI43-101 compliant reserve reports as well as technical reports at scoping, pre-feasibility and feasibility levels.

Prior to this, Rodney held key roles in large exploration projects which added significant value for their owners. These include coordinating, planning and instituting diamond drilling during the exploration and definition phases of the Pamour 60 Pit Expansion (mined by the Porcupine JV), logging core at the Destiny gold deposit, Quebec and the Hoyle Pond 1060 Zone. Rodney also spent over 13 years in grassroots and advanced exploration throughout Canada, developing extensive experience in greenstone-hosted gold deposits, epithermal gold deposits, porphyry copper-gold, VMS base metal, komatiite associated nickel and pegmatite deposits.

Prior to joining Barrick, Rodney gained invaluable experience at Royal Oak Mines, Inc. (1995-1997); Kinross Gold Corporation (1994); Gerald Lajoie Enterprises (1993); BHP Minerals (1992-1993); Gold Fields Canadian Mining Ltd. (1990-1991); Noranda Exploration Company (1989) and other mineral resource exploration and development companies.

Rodney holds a B.Sc. (Honours) in Geology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario (1988) and many other diplomas and certificates relating to leadership, geology as well as mine and workplace safety. He is a member of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario, the Canadian institute of Mining (CIM), the Prospector’s and Developer’s Association of Canada and PDAC’s Health and Safety Committee.

 

Linda Kennard

Director

Linda serves on the Elder’s Council for Lac des Milles Lacs First Nation and is the granddaughter of Chief Suzi, former chief of the Lac des Milles Lacs.

 

From 1985-1993, Linda was the owner/operator of Northwestern Timber Inc., a contract heavy equipment operator to Buchanan Forest Products and Weyerhaeuser. She then founded and managed the Wild Rose Art Gallery (1993-2002).

From 2003-2006, she was a program coordinator at the Atikokan Native Friendship Centre, Atikokan, ON. Linda then spent seven years as a program director with Shooniyaa Wa-Biitong, a Treaty 3 First Nation funding and training organization in Kenora, Ontario. During this period, Linda was also a member of the Resources Management Advisory Committee (2003-2009).

Linda and her husband, Michael Fogg, are now the owner/ operators of the Sapawe Corner Diner & Motel, a hospitality institution in Northern Ontario.

Linda is nearing the completion of a series of Aboriginal Financial Management courses. She also completed Year 1 of Waterloo University’s Community Economic Development Program and completed a Business Administration Training program offered by BDO Dunwoody.

Advisory Team

 

 

 

Dr. Colin Bowdidge, Ph.D, P.Geo

Geologist (Advisor)

Colin R. Bowdidge was educated at the University of Cambridge, where he received an M.A. degree in mineralogy and petrology, and at the University of Edinburgh, where he earned a Ph.D. in geology. He is a registered Professional Geoscientist with the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario. He has worked in mineral exploration for 34 years, primarily in Canada, but including projects in the U.S.A., South America and Europe.

 

After working for major companies (Cerro Mining Corporation and Union Miniere) for five years, Dr. Bowdidge became a consulting geologist, which has been his principal occupation since 1974. His experience has covered exploration and development projects for a wide variety of mineral commodities, including precious metals. With a thorough knowledge of applied geology as it relates to mineral exploration, Dr. Bowdidge also has extensive hands-on experience in modern geophysical and geochemical exploration techniques.

Dr. Bowdidge was instrumental in the discovery of the Olden Wollastonite deposit in southeast Ontario in 1986. This deposit contains a measured resource of 2.5 million tonnes grading 29% high aspect-ratio wollastonite. The property had previously been mapped three times by government surveys and once by a mining company without any recognition of its wollastonite potential. The Olden deposit has an estimated gross value of $1to $2 billion dollars.

Dr. Bowdidge has been involved in the development of several mines: the Pinebay copper mine in Manitoba, the Thierry nickel-copper mine in northwest Ontario, the Cerro Mojon gold mine in Nicaragua and the San Andres gold mine in Honduras. Dr. Bowdidge has served as a director and/or officer of several publicly traded mining and exploration companies, of which the best known was Greenstone Resources Ltd.

 

Ikram (Ike) A. Osmani, MSc, P.Geo

ADVISOR

Ikram (Ike) has 35 years experience in field-based mineral exploration and resource development and research as well as five years corporate experience including managing publicly-traded junior resource companies in executive capacities.

 

Ike has been a principal and technical consultant, Chief, Project and Contract Geologist, VP Exploration and Geoscientist for such companies as Adi Gold Mining, Cameco Corporation, Homestake Canada (acquired by Barrick), Citadel Gold Mines and the Ontario Geological Survey.

Among his many accomplishments, Ike developed an NI 43-101 compliant resource of one million oz Au (Indicated and Inferred) in the Shebandowan Greenstone Belt.

Ike also made a new discovery of significant Titanium-Vanadium mineralization while exploring and developing a magmatic Ni-Cu-PGM deposit approximately 75 km west of “Ring of Fire”, an area of vast nickel and chromite deposits in Northern Ontario.

 

Gerry D. White, P.Geo, B.Sc

ADVISOR

For the past 37 years, Gerry has worked extensively with multiple exploration and mining organizations, including Taiga Consultants Limited, Pan Ocean Limited/Abermin Corporation, Pacific Petroleums Limited, the Saskatchewan Mining and Development Corporation and the Ontario Geological Survey (OGS).

 

Gerry has authored and co-authored various reports on natural resources, including reports on the Beardmore-Geraldton Gold Camp area.

Gerry has also dealt with numerous First Nation issues and provided ongoing consultations in this arena. His working knowledge of the Mining Act has been used to advise exploration clients on staking regulations, assessment work requirements and advanced exploration issues.

Gerry is an active member of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario and holds a Bachelor of Science (Geology) Degree from the University of Manitoba.

 

Victor Hugo, CPA, CMA

ADVISOR

Victor is a senior financial analyst at Marrelli Support Services Inc., providing CFO, accounting, regulatory compliance, and management advisory services to numerous issuers on the TSX, TSX-Venture and other Canadian and US exchanges.

 

Victor’s public company experience includes preparation of financial statements, initial public offerings and business combinations transactions. Vic also serves as Chief Financial Officer to several junior exploration companies listed on the TSX Venture exchange.

Previously, Victor was the head of the Finance departments at Barrick Gold’s Hemlo operation (2016-2017) and Nystar’s Myra Falls mine (2013-2016).

Victor is a CPA, CMA and holds a Bachelors of Commerce with Honours specializing in Accounting and Cost and Management Accounting from Potchefstroom University in South Africa.

 

David Malouf

Mining Development (Advisor)

David Malouf, a 1978 graduate of HaileyburySchool of Mines brings his lifetime of hands-on experience in Canadian mining to the Company as it continues its exploration programs in the Geraldton-Beardmore (Ontario) Gold Camp, Quebec and the Dominican Republic. David will be particularly focused on advancing the Company's business development programs and, ultimately, the development of its properties into income generating mines.

 

After graduation in 1978 David went to work as a stope miner at the Henderson Mine in Chibougamau, Quebec to learn to drill and blast. The following year, he went on his own and generated income from a lease on a Quebec property.

In 1980 he took over as a General Manager of Norbeau Mine's underground exploration project at a time when only 1/4 of the project had been accomplished and 3/4 of the budget had been expended. David put his innovation to work, and produced 2,000 ounces of gold by doing a cleanup of the old mine; which allowed the completion of the program and enabled the operation to remain open for a further two years until it was sold to Northgate Exploration in a multi-$million transaction.

In 1993, David was appointed President of RoxmarkMines Limited in the Geraldton-Beardmore Gold Camp after he successfully assembled many of the past producers under the umbrella of that company. He served in this capacity until 2006 when he accepted the position of Vice-Chairman Business Development and Corporate Affairs. In this role, David negotiated a Joint Venture between Roxmarkand Premier Gold Mines, which is now developing a multi-million ounce resource -a major development for the region.

Since 2007, David has been actively assembling properties in the Tashota Gold belt through Plum Tree Gold Corp. and he controls two advanced properties of merit in Chibougamau, Quebec.

Address: Tashota Resources Inc.
82 Richmond St. East., Suite 401
Toronto, ON M5C 1P1

Toll Free: 1-844-849-1440

Fax: 416-849-1440

Tashota Resources Inc. (“TRI”) is a Prospect Generator junior resource Exploration Company currently focused on defining and monetizing the mineral deposits on its 45,000 acres covering multiple properties in the Hemlo, Shebandowan, and Beardmore-Geraldton Gold Camps.