Joey Wilkins
Chief Geologist
Joey Wilkins is a 26 year veteran in mineral exploration whose focus has primarily been in the western hemisphere and in the porphyry Cu/Mo/Au environment. He has also dabbled in epithermal gold/silver exploration and industrial minerals. Upon finishing his undergraduate degree in Geology at the University of Arizona, he briefly ventured into sulfur exploration in SE New Mexico and West Texas before being shipped off to SW Nevada and SE California where he spent the next 4 years in borate exploration while with US Borax (a Rio Tinto subsidiary).
Between 1990 and 1996, Wilkins worked in the SW US working on epithermal to shear zone hosted gold systems, VMS deposits, then porphyry Cu/Mo/Au exploration with Kennecott Exploration in Arizona and New Mexico. During the 6 years with Kennecott, Wilkins was part of a team that discovered a deep porphyry Cu-Mo deposit called Arnett Creek, a system proximal to the Resolution porphyry Cu-Mo-Ag deposit. During that time, Wilkins strived to become a proficient geologic mapper and developed an eye for alteration assemblages while running various exploration and drilling projects throughout the Southwest United States.
In 1996, Wilkins transferred to Mexico to continue porphyry Cu/Mo/Au exploration with Minera Kennecott during which time he conducted work and managed projects throughout Sonora and Chihuahua along with all other northern and central Mexico states. Duties include drill management and geochemical analysis of the Penasquito Au-Ag-Zn-Pb project (a Kennecott discovery) and the nearby Salaverna Cu-Auskarn deposit while working in Zacatecas and on the Boleo Cu-Co-Zn strata form deposit in Baja Sur. A significant amount of time focused on project management in northernSonoraproximal to the Cananea porphyry Cu-Mo-Ag deposit.
In 2002, Wilkins returned to Arizona and consulted to various Rio Tinto Exploration groups for three years in the Western Hemisphere conducting porphyry Cu-Mo exploration in the central Andes of Chile and borate exploration in NW Argentina. Most of the work in the Chilean Andes was into remote country by horseback. In a departure from porphyry exploration, Wilkins managed core logging and sampling on the Eagle magmatic Cu-Ni-Au deposit in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for 3 consecutive summers and also worked in Minnesota on the Tamarack magmatic Cu-Ni-PGM deposit. Other exploration ventures include porphyry Cu/Mo/Au prospecting and mapping on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation inCentral Arizona.
Joey re-joined Kennecott Exploration in 2005 as a project geologist and managed porphyry Cu-Au-Mo exploration in Utah on the Stocktondeposit, proximal to Bingham Canyon. During early 2007, Kennecott directed the exploration group to conduct brownfield’s exploration program peripheral to Bingham Canyon, a project Joey co-managed until the end of 2008 while discovering a new porphyry system on the east side of Bingham. The program was geophysically intensive relying on MT, 3-D IP, and 3-D modeling of magnetics and interpretation of extensive underground mine data.
During most of 2009, Joey resumed consulting and worked in southern Utah examining CRD type deposits in proximity to porphyry related Cu-Au skarns and some time in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho on silver exploration. This work was with a small company called Grand Central Silver Mines.
In early 2010, Joey joined Full Metal Minerals and became their chief geologist for mineral exploration throughout Alaska where he has worked a significant amount of time on the Pyramid porphyry Cu-Au-Mo deposit in addition to other Full Metal projects such as40 Mile, Rolling Thunder, and Grizzly Butte. As the Full Metal chief geologist, Joey has brought the company a wide variety of international experience, management oversight, and technical skills to further enhance the existing and outstanding exploration team. Joey is also shared with partner companies Revolution Resources, Inform Resources, and Valhalla Resources. The work with Revolution Resources was exclusively on gold exploration in the Carolina Slate Belt of North Carolina and more recently inMexicoon the newly acquired Lake Shore Gold Mexico assets which include epithermal Au-Ag properties inSan Luis Potosi,Chihuahua, Sinaloa, andSonora. Some of the assets include porphyry Cu-Au systems. The time with Valhalla was spent in Turkey and Romania assisting and developing drill targets on their porphyry Cu-Mo deposits and outlining gold programs inRomania.
Jodie Gibson
Senior Geologist
Jodie Gibson is an innovative exploration geologist with strong technical and managerial skills, and has mineral exploration experience in various tectonic and orogenic environments throughout North America. Most of his work to date has focused in Alaska and the Yukon, the south eastern US, and Greenland; with an emphasis on intrusion-related gold, base metal, and porphyry copper exploration. In the capacity of Senior Geologist and Project Manager he was part of the Underworld Resources team that discovered and defined the Golden Saddle and Arc deposits in the Yukon. Following Underworld’s acquisition by Kinross in May 2010, Gibson has worked as Project Manager on Full Metal Minerals/Antofagasta Minerals Pyramid Cu-Mo-Au porphyry discovery in Alaska, and has been an integral team member in Revolution Resources’ recent Champion Hills gold discovery in North Carolina. Gibson is also currently the Vice President Exploration of Full Metal Zinc.
Gibson received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Geology in 2003 and a Master of Science Degree in Geology in 2006 from Indiana State University. He is currently working towards his Ph.D. in Geology from Colorado State University with an emphasis on the geochemistry of gold deposits in the Tinitna Gold Province. He is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC and the Alaska Miners Association.
Natalie King
Senior Geologist
Natalie King is a senior geologist for McLeod Williams Capital Corp. who has been with the group since 2008. Prior to her position with Full Metal Minerals, a McLeod Williams company, King worked for Kennecott Utah Copper at Bingham Canyon, Utah. King was part of the technical team at Underworld Resources that discovered White Gold, a 1.4 million ounce gold deposit in the Yukon, which was bought by Kinross in 2010. With the McLeod Williams group, King has worked on and managed projects throughout Alaska, the Yukon, and North Carolina.
She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Geology and Geophysics from the University of Missouri – Rolla in 2005. She finished her Master of Science degree in Geology from Colorado State University in 2009.
Cooper Quinn
Senior Geologist
Cooper Quinn has been a part of the McLeod Williams team since 2007, working as a geologist and manager on projects across North America. His strong geological field skills are supplemented by technical skills including advanced GIS and 3D modelling, which he applies from desktop project generation through resource estimations, as well as property evaluation. Quinn’s field work has primarily been focused in Alaska and the Yukon working on base and precious metals projects, as well as industrial minerals. Notable projects to date include Underworld Resources White Gold Discovery in 2009, as well as the Pyramid Cu-Au-Mo porphyry discovery in 2010.
Quinn received a Bachelor of Science degree in Earth Science from Simon Fraser University in 2010. He is currently a member of the Society of Economic Geologists, the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, and the Alaska Miners Association among others. He maintains a strong focus on professional development to keep his geology and technical skills ahead of the curve. During his downtime, Quinn enjoys photography, skiing, and spending time outdoors with his dog Logan.
Cullan Lester
Senior Geologist
Cullan Lester is an exploration geologist and project manager for McLeod Williams Capital Corp. He has been with the company directly since 2009 and has been a part of the team on a contract basis since 2006 while working for Alaska Earth Sciences in Anchorage, Alaska. He balances a strong technical background with logistical skills to provide management for McLeod Williams’ most remote projects. Lester specializes in epithermal gold and base metal skarn systems as well as having a substantial understanding of the porphyry environment. With McLeod Williams, he has worked on the Lucky Shot Gold project, Fortymile Lead-Zinc Projects, White Gold Project, Rolling Thunder Gold Projects, Pyramid Copper-Moly-Gold Project, and most recently the Unga Gold Project. During his time with Alaska Earth Sciences, he worked on many projects throughout the state of Alaska, including the Red Dog Zinc Mine, Nixon Fork Gold Mine and Donlin Creek Gold Project.
Lester is a lifelong Alaskan who was raised in Anchorage, Alaska and now resides in Girdwood, Alaska. He is an avid outdoorsman who spends his off season mountain hunting, and backcountry skiing and snowmachining in the Chugach and Talkeetna Ranges of South-Central Alaska.
He received his B.S. in Geology from the esteemed geology program of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, with an emphasis in mineral exploration in 2006.
Chris R. Siron
Exploration Geologist
Chris Siron is an exploration geologist with 5 years of experience in Greenfields exploration. Siron is a two-time graduate of the Colorado School of Mines with a Bachelor’s degree in geological engineering (2007) and Master’s degree in economic geology (2010). Prior to joining the McLeod Williams group in 2008, Siron worked as a geological engineer for Ur-Energy, Inc.
Siron has been integral in the advancement of base- and precious-metal deposits in Alaska. In addition to his involvement with Full Metal Minerals, he has worked for other McLeod-Williams companies such as Revolution Resources and Valhalla Resources, as well as contract work for Smash Minerals and Brixton Metals.
Beyond his work in Alaska, Siron has conducted gold exploration in Yukon Territory of Canada and the Carolina Slate Belt of North Carolina, and uranium exploration in the western United States. Additionally, Siron’s experience includes surveys of prolific ore deposits of Southern Africa, world-class porphyry-epithermal deposits of the southwestern United States and the Chilean Cordillera, lead-zinc deposits of the Irish Orefields, and metallogenic potential of Morocco.
Siron is a member of the Alaska Miners Association, Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia, and an active member of the Society of Economic Geologists.
Michael Tedeschi
Exploration Geologist
Michael Tedeschi is a Geologist at Mcleod Williams. Prior to joining McLeod Williams in 2010, Tedeschi worked with Constellation Copper Corporation in Sonora, Mexico on the Cerro Verde Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold project. He then spent 2 years with Gold Fields Exploration in Denver in generative and conceptual research and in exploration for Carlin-Style gold in Nevada. He has also worked on a gold exploration project in Alaska with Newmont and coal exploration at the CIRI Beluga project with Alaska Earth Science. Since joining McLeod Williams, he has worked on several exploration projects in Alaska with Full Metal Minerals and in North Carolina with Revolution Resources. He has worked on a wide variety of deposit types including, VMS, Skarn, Porphyry, Epithermal, IOCG, Carlin and intrusion-related.
He received his Bachelor of Science in geology and history from Syracuse University in 2006 and his Master of Science from the Colorado School of Mines in 2010 in Economic Geology, completing a thesis on the Cerro Verde IOCG deposit with Dr. Murray Hitzman. He is a member of the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia and the Society of Economic Geologists.
Katie Lucas
Senior Geologist
Katie Lucas is a Senior Geologist with McLeod-Williams, joining the team in 2011. Her career has focused primarily on gold exploration, beginning in Red Lake with Wolfden Resources and moving on to northern British Columbia and northeastern Ontario for Northgate Minerals at their Kemess Mine and Young-Davidson Mine properties. In 2008, Lucas went to work for Premier Gold Mines in Geraldton, Ontario as manager for the Hardrock Project. During her three year tenure, she helped Premier define 3.6 million ounces of gold. Since joining McLeod Williams, she has been a part of the Revolution Resources team exploring for gold in the southeastern United States.
Lucas obtained her Bachelors of Science in Geology with Honours from Lakehead University in 2002 and her Master of Science in Structural Geology from Queen’s University in 2004. Lucas is a member in good standing with the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario.
Jeremy English
Exploration Geologist
Jeremy English is a US Army veteran who attained the rank of Sergeant while being assigned to the Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) as an MH-47E mechanic/crew chief. During his enlistment, English was stationed in Ft. Campbell, Kentucky and played an integral role in creating and relocating C company 160th SOAR (Airborne) from Ft. Campbell to Dague, Republic of South Korea. As one of the Army’s elite, English was deployed throughout Asia in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and training of foreign militaries special operations forces.
Shortly after being honorably discharged from the Army he moved to Vancouver BC and began studying geology. While attending Douglas College and the University of British Columbia, Jeremy worked for Geoinformatics Exploration Inc. and Kiska Metals Corp. on Carlin style gold deposits in Nevada, nickel exploration in Ontario and porphyry copper, gold and molybdenum deposits in BC and Alaska. His work in Alaska included three seasons at Kiska Metal’s Whistler project, where he was able to successfully define a porphyry target that is covered under glacial till by using deep penetrating geochemistry. English began working with McLeod Williams in May of 2011 where his organizational and leadership skills, five years of exploration experience and ability to attract large bears in remote locations played a key role during the reconnaissance project in the Circle Mining District in Alaska. English was brought on as a full time geologist after he completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Earth and Ocean Science at the University of British Columbia in December of 2011.
Connor Messler
Exploration Geologist
Connor Messler is an exploration geologist for McLeod Williams who has been with the group since February, 2011. Messler has spent time working on projects in North Carolina, Alaska, Yukon, and Mexico. Apart from his field experience with McLeod Williams he has worked on multiple Geoarchaeological projects and in April, 2011 presented some of his work at SAGEEP.
Messler received a B.S in Geology and B.A in History from the Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. While attending school he was active in Student Government, Geology Club, and Rugby. He still plays rugby, and also enjoys hiking, rock climbing, and snowboarding.
Olivia Brown
Technical Data Specialist
Olivia Brown has been a Technical Data Specialist at McLeod Williams since 2010. With a background in database management and education, the majority of Brown’s experience is from Nunavut where she worked on a number of regional mapping projects on Baffin Island with the Geological Survey of Canada.
In the summer of 2011, Brown also worked as the field database manager on Smash Minerals’ Whiskey project in the Yukon’s White Gold district. She has also worked as a teacher in Grise Fiord, Canada’s northernmost community at 76.5°N.
Brown holds a Bachelor of Science with honours in Geography from St. Mary’s University, an Advanced Diploma in GIS from the Centre of Geographic Sciences and a Bachelor of Education from Simon Fraser University.
Wes Hodson
GIS Manager/Geologist
Mr. Hodson joined McLeod Williams Capital Corp. in 2010. Previously, Hodson worked for Kiska Metals, Rimfire Minerals, and Miramar Mining as a GIS Manager and GIS Specialist. He brings a strong managerial and technical background to Mcleod Williams. His focus has been to improve how data is collected and stored so the team can make faster and better decisions to create exploration success.
Hodson started in the industry in 1994 as a drillers helper at the Snip Mine in northern BC and has worked in exploration ever since in Alaska, BC, Yukon, and Nunavut. In 2002, Hodson graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Science in Geology then went on to the British Columbia Institute of Technology and received an Advanced Diploma in Geographic Information Systems finishing in 2003.
Richard Carter
GIS Technician
Richard Carter began working as a GIS Technician at McLeod Williams during the summer of 2011, shortly after receiving an Advanced Diploma in Geographic Information Systems from The British Columbia Institute of Technology. Prior to studying at BCIT, Carter received his Bachelors’ Degree from the University of Guelph where his studies were focused mainly on Natural Resource and Environmental Management with an emphasis on Geospatial Technology and Spatial Analysis. Throughout his educational career, Richard worked on a number of Government and Non-Government projects related to forestry, forest fire mitigation, watershed delineation and ecosystem mapping. Though he is new to the Mineral Exploration Industry, his cutting edge knowledge of geospatial technology and his diverse experiences fit well within the technically-minded atmosphere at McLeod Williams.
Since joining the McLeod Williams team, Carter has been focused on developing streamlined spatial-data workflows and implementing a centralized data collection and data management platform that will accommodate the global scope of McLeod Williams.
Doug Ramshaw
Business Development
Doug Ramshaw joined McLeod Williams in the summer of 2011 in a Business Development capacity overseeing early stage project evaluation and company development within the McLeod Williams group. Ramshaw received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mining Geology from the Royal School of Mines, London, U.K., in 1993. Prior to his permanent move to Vancouver in 1997, Ramshaw was assistant editor at the world renowned Mining Journal publication (the world’s oldest weekly technical journal) before a move into mining finance as a mining analyst for C.M.Oliver in their U.K. capital markets team that raised close to $100 million in mining equity during his tenure.
Ramshaw has worked in various corporate capacities during his time in Vancouver where his combined technical and market background have allowed him to excel in the advice and strategic evaluation and research that has been used by multiple companies within the McLeod Williams group. Most recently, Ramshaw was closely involved in the Initial Public Offering of Valhalla Resources and its aggressive plans to explore and develop the tremendous geological potential of the Tethyan belt in Eastern Europe/Asia.
