Associates

James R. (Jim) Guilinger

With more than 45 years in the minerals industry, Jim has completed numerous industrial and strategic minerals market studies and investigations for clients and companies around the world.

Prior to forming World Industrial Minerals, Jim was Director of Exploration and Development in Mexico for Eldorado Corp. and managed numerous precious, base and industrial minerals projects. He has been a private consultant for more than 30 years and President of the Company for 20 years.

Jim is a Qualified Person (QP) for completion of NI 43-101, JORC, AIM and SAMREC stock exchange qualification reports. He is also a member of the Society of Mining Engineers of the A.I.M.E., the Society of Economic Geologists and the Mining and Metallurgical Society. (See List of professional publications.)

Alejo Monsivais

Alejo has completed a wide range of precious, base, industrial and strategic minerals projects in Mexico and has more than 40 years in the industry. Formerly with Penoles and Ararco Mexico, Alejo is now President of our contract geologic/technical services company, Exla S.A. de C.V. This company specializes in contract exploration and development programs in Mexico, Central America and South America.

Douglas (Doug) Christopherson

Doug has more than 40 years experience as a mining engineer. He has held a number of engineering positions, including mine manager, on mineral projects located in the United States and Asia. In addition to his engineering work, Doug has completed numbers of environmental assessments, plant/mine permitting, feasibility studies and ore reserve estimations. Doug manages engineering, environmental and permitting assignments.

John W. Keller

John is an experienced geologist with 20 years in the minerals industry and 7 years at the Colorado Geological Survey. He has conducted exploration for metals and industrial minerals in the U.S., Latin America, China and the former Soviet Union. He is proficient at 3D geological modeling of mineral deposits and the use of geographical information systems (GIS). John authored over 20 peer-reviewed geologic publications at the Colorado Geological Survey including nine geologic quadrangle maps. He is a certified Professional Geologist in good standing with the American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG) and a Qualified Person (QP) under National Instrument 43-101 (Canada.)