Address: Loma Redonda 1599-V42 Phone. Home: (52-81) 8143 0271 Colonia Loma Larga Mobil. 52-81-1680 4722 Monterrey, N. L. 64710 E-mail: Mexico. [email protected]

JUAN J. VERA. GEOLOGIST. RESUME.

Objective Utilize my 38 years of mining and exploration activities in Mexico to successfully achieve mining companies’ goal, operating the state-of-the-art exploration and ore-mining technology. Reactivation of gold-silver mining districts mainly in the State of Jalisco.

Work experience MEXICO. 2011. Geologist. Chief Executive Officer CONSTRUCIONES y DESARROLLO MASCOTA, S.A. DE C.V. Las Agujas Mine. Gold-Silver property. Municipality of Mascota, Jalisco. Mèxico. 200-ton/day underground mine ongoing project.

2000- 2011. Geologist. Project Analyst. FIDEICOMISO DE FOMENTO MINERO ( MINING DEVELOPMENT TRUST) This is a Mexican Federal Government Trust. Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.

Performing Geological assignments to mining companies and Individuals on training and technical assistantship 1994-1999: USA. MINING COMPANIES. • SERVICIOS CYPRUS S.A. DE C.V. Guadalajara Office. Wholly owned subsidiary of CYPRUS- AMAX MINERALS. Denver. CO. USA. SENIOR GEOLOGIST. Generative gold exploration programs throughout the physiographic province of the East-West Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (States of Nayarit, Jalisco, Guanajuato, Querétaro, Michoacán, Hidalgo, Veracruz). The Sierra Madre Oriental and associated NW-SE. silver- polymetallic Belt (States of Durango, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí), and Volcanic Massive Sulfide deposits (VMS), Cu-Zn (State of Zacatecas). Porphyry-copper projects, located in North-western Mexico; drilling-indicated copper resources and geological modeling. • MINERA HECLA S.A. DE C.V. Hermosillo Office. Wholly owned subsidiary of HECLA MINING COMPANY. Coeur d’Alene, ID. USA ACQUISITION MANAGER. Geologic evaluation of gold-silver open-pit bulk minable targets and underground gold-silver bonanza deposits. Joint venture opportunities.

1982-1993. CONSULTANT GEOLOGIST. SELF-EMPLOYED. • Co-founder and shareholder of a mexican mining company ( Compañía Minera Victoria Guadalupe, S.A. de C.V.). Headquarter in Durango city. Mineral de Cucharas Mine, a 150 tonnes/day gold-silver underground mining operation. Total output: 34,000 ounces of gold and 2.6 million ounces of silver. Epithermal-vein type deposit. Huajicori, State of Nayarit. • Technical assistantship to mexican mining companies. Underground geological mapping; ore-reserve estimation; economic evaluation of mining properties. Comprehensive exploration program: Landsat imaging colour anomalies, ground-based geologic data, geochemistry, geophysics, ore-resource targets, RC and core drilling, ore-reserve assessments.

1973-1982. MEXICAN MINING COMPANIES. • INDUSTRIAS LUISMIN, S.A. DE C.V ( today: GOLDCORP INC.) Exploration Manager. Mazatlán Office. Regional geological reconnaissance and evaluation of mining districts throughout the states of Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacán, Nayarit, Querétaro, Sinaloa, Sonora, Zacatecas. Mineral Deposits under investigation: ♦Gold-silver, hot spring-epithermal veins and stockwork. ♦Silver-Lead-Zinc-Copper mesothermal vein and stockwork. ♦Copper-Molybdenum breccia-pipe and stockwork ♦Skarn and limestone replacement, Ag-Pb-Zn-Cu-Bi. ♦Stratabound sulfides. Volcanic massive sulfide deposits (VMS).Cu-Zn-Au.

• SERVICIOS INDUSTRIALES PEÑOLES, S.C. Exploration Manager. Mining Division. Monterrey. Exploration programs and ore-reserve developments for seven mining units of Peñoles group. Five precious and base metal underground mines: Ag-Au-Pb-Zn-Cu-Bi and two fluorite underground mines. Staff personnel: 28 geologists.

PERU. SOUTH AMERICA. 1966-1972 • CERRO DE PASCO CORPORATION. PASCO Mine Geologist. Cobriza Mine. Underground. Bedded hornfels-skarn replacement deposit, Cu-Bi. Antamina Project, (Cu-Mo-Zn), skarn deposit. • ATACOCHA MINING COMPANY. PASCO Chief Mine Geologist. Atacocha Mine. (Ag-Pb-Zn). Underground. Skarn-limestone replacement deposit. • ERWIN ROSE-CONSULTING GEOLOGIST AND ASSOCIATE. LIMA. Senior Geologist

PERU . 1957-1961: San Marcos University, Lima. Education B. Sc. Geology, 1962. Engineering Geology, 1964. CANADA. 1962-1963: St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, N.S. Social Leadership Course. Geological Mapping of a pre-Cambriam igneous meta-sedimentary complex in Inverness County. Nova Scotia. ENGLAND. 1964-1965. University of Leeds, Leeds. British Council Scholarship. Post-graduate studies in mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry and economic geology Mineral deposits. GERMANY . 1965-1966. • Goethe Institute, Murnau. German Language Course. • Bundesanstalt fur Bodenforshung. Hannover. ( German Federal Research Institute) Training in mineralogy, petrology and X-ray diffraction methods.

Professional SEG. SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS. Denver, Colorado. USA. memberships AIME. SME. SOCIETY FOR MINING, METALLURGY AND EXPLORATION, INC. Denver, Colorado, USA.

AIMMGM. ASOCIACION DE INGENIEROS DE MINAS, METALURGISTAS Y GEOLOGOS DE MEXICO. MEXICO DF.

Languages Fluent in Spanish and English.