Position: Advisory Board
Mr. Cohen has 20 years experience in pure and applied exploration and environmental geochemistry research based in Australia, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North America. He is president of the (International) Association of Applied Geochemists, head of the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at University of New South Wales and was previously chair of the Science Faculty at UNSW.
Mr. Cohen's current research projects include sampling and analytical methods for exploration and environmental geochemistry, environmental geochemical baseline surveys and multivariate data mining.
He lectures in environmental and exploration geochemistry, economic geology, geological data processing and statistics methods, and supervises a number of postgraduate research students in geochemistry. He has been a technical consultant to a number of industrial companies and government departments, and has published over 40 papers, book chapters and major government reports.
Position: Advisory Board
Mr. Crosby was the Honorary Consul General of Peru for Western Canada from 1976 -- 1985 and again from 1989 -- 1993. Mr. Crosby has extensive and current contacts in both the public and private sectors in Latin America and will be a valuable asset to the Company as it moves forward with exploration on its recently acquired Pirquitas properties.
Mr. Crosby is based in Vancouver, BC and is a consultant and advisor to several mining and industrial companies based in Canada, Australia and Europe that are active in Latin America. He has placed a strong emphasis on the mining sector assisting companies in logistics, property acquisitions and the export of mining and exploration equipment to the region.