Management

GLENN C. KASNER

CEO

Mr. Kasner is a graduate of the Haileybury School of Mines (1976) and has been involved in the mineral exploration industry since the age of 16, forming Glenn C. Kasner Exploration Services Ltd., in 1983 to provide contract mineral exploration services for clients. Mr. Kasner became President and CEO of RJK Explorations Ltd in 1998.

GINO CHITARONI

President

Gino Chitaroni a lifelong resident of the Cobalt-Coleman area. His father and brothers were former silver mine owners and operators in the 1960-70s. Gino is a graduate of the Haileybury School of Mines and then went on to obtain a Degree in Geology with a minor in Business at Lake Superior State University. Gino is currently the President of the Northern Prospectors Association along with that of being a board member of the Ontario Prospectors Association. He also a long time member of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada. Gino served on the Cobalt town council for 17 years where he was heavily involved in economic development and heritage/tourism development projects for the community. Concurrently, he operated Polymet Labs, an assay laboratory and bulk-sample plant as President from 2000-2020 and as a President of Blackstone Development Inc since 1997. Gino has consulted and worked for numerous mining and exploration companies in various start-up phases and worked as a miner for Agnico-Eagle Mines, and project geologist EGO-Resources/Cobatec and beat geologist for Teck-Corona in the Hemlo Gold Camp. He was instrumental in bringing to the area Canmine Resources and United Commodity and a number of companies during the Cobalt Boom of 2016-2020, namely, Cobalt Power Group, Cobalt One (now First Cobalt), Brixton Metals, Battery Minerals Corporation and Canada Silver Cobalt Works. And all the while working in the exploration/mining sector, Gino also worked for many years part time for his family’s near by tourist camp, Portage Bay Lodge. And most recently, Gino played a key role in advising and negotiating the land package acquired by RJK in 2019 and now joined his fellow Haileybury School of Mine Graduates in the search for the source of the Nipissing Diamond.

ROBERT J. MACKAY

Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors

Robert Mackay graduated from the Haileybury School of Mines in 1975 and then from the South Dakota School of Mines with a BSc in Mining Engineering in 1980. Robert has worked in diamond drilling, mineral exploration, mine engineering and mine production both open pit and underground.

Robert worked for 20 years in the investment business, was a Vice President of two National investment firms and worked for 5 years as a mining and exploration consultant before he founded Stans Energy Corp in 2005 as the President, CEO, and Director until retiring in 2013.

PETER HUBACHECK, P.GEO

Project Manager & Lead Geologist

Mr. Peter Hubacheck is a consulting geologist and President of W. A. Hubacheck Consultants Ltd. He has over 42 years of experience as a project geologist, exploration manager and Qualified Person for the purposes of NI 43-101, with experience in the exploration for gold, silver, base metals, uranium and diamonds in Canada and the USA.

His interest in diamonds began in 1989 to 1992 with the discovery of the Diamond lake #1 and #2 pipe while exploring for gold along the Kirkland-Larder Lake Break on behalf of Sudbury Contact Mines Ltd. In 1995, the Geological Survey of Canada collaborated with the company on a research effort called “the Diamond Lake Kimberlite Study.”  From 1993 to 1999, he formed an expert team of explorationists who conducted regional till, esker and RC drilling programs expanding the search area southward from the Kirkland Lake Kimberlite field into the Temiskaming Rift Valley. High resolution airborne magnetic/resistivity surveys along with radar were used to identify prospective kimberlite targets. A proprietary ranking system was employed for target selection and ground truthing resulting in the discovery of four kimberlite pipes in 1995 and 1996, most notably diamondiferous pipes 95-2 and 96-1.

In 2000, his firm was contracted by the Ontario Geologic Survey completing a major Modern Alluvium Sampling Program in the Kapuskasing-Fraserdale Area as part of the Operation Treasure Hunt Project as well the Fort Hope Lake sediment sampling program.

In 2005, his firm completed a follow-up OGS till pit/modern alluvial sampling program for Tahera Diamond Corporation in northcentral Ontario.

From 2011 to 2013, he initiated ground acquisition followed up by modern alluvial and till sampling programs for diamonds and gold in South Lorrain and Lorrain Townships.

In 2016, he evaluated a magnetic diorite intrusion containing heavy rare earth elements located in Liaoning Province in China. He served on the boards of Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. (1996-1998), Contact Diamond Corporation (2004-2006), Sheltered Oak Resources (2008 to 2013) and joined the board of Plato Gold Corp. in 2011 to the present.

WILLIAM E. MACRAE

M.SC., P.GEO, Director

William MacRae graduated from McMaster University with a post graduate degree in Geology (1982) and has been in the industry for more than 43 years working for such companies as Noranda, Newmont, Kinross Gold, Placer Dome, several Junior Exploration companies and the GSC and OGS. Acted as VP Exploration (Ontario) for Matamec Explorations (2007 to 2008) and sat as a director for Drift Lake resources (2007 to 2011). Mr. MacRae has been primarily in Gold exploration from grass roots projects to bulk sampling of underground mineralization. Mr. MacRae has taken executive positions on several volunteer boards (Porcupine Prospectors and Developers – President, Ontario Prospectors Association – Vice president, Timmins Economic Development Corporation (1991 to 2011).

DAN MACKIE

P. ENG, Director

Mr. Mackie is a mechanical engineering graduate from McGill University with over 40 years of experience in the mining industry. Mr. Mackie is President of INNOVAT Mineral Process Solutions Limited and Dan Mackie & Associates, Inc.

Mr. Mackie has an extensive background in EPCM, notably as Project Manager on contract to Bechtel for the Prefeasibility Study for the Collahuasi Project, which included 15,000t/d heap leach, SX/EW and a 60,000 t/d flotation plant.  He has been developing Continuous Vat Leaching (CVL) since the early 1990’s.

DIANE MCKEAN

Corporate Secretary

Ms. McKean has been the office manager and Corporate Secretary for RJK Explorations Ltd., for approximately 18 years. Prior to her role with the Company she spent seven years with the Ministry of Development and Mines recording mining claims and assessing work reports. She is fluent in both English and French.

Board of Advisors

GARY GRABOWSKI – P.GEO, OGS (retired)

Mr. Grabowski was District Geologist for the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines’ Resident Geologist Program (RGP) in Kirkland Lake for more than 35 years. The Kirkland Lake RGP office area is responsible for the Area adjacent to the Quebec border from north of Lake Abitibi (Burntbush) to south of Temagami, including mining camps in Matheson, Kirkland Lake- Larder Lake, Matachewan, Cobalt, Gowganda and Shining Tree. During his tenure with the Ontario government, Mr. Grabowski was responsible for monitoring, facilitating and stimulating exploration, development and production of the district’s mineral resources and providing professional technical advice and information about the district’s geology and mineral potential to a wide range of client groups.

Early in his career with the OPS, he became involved with diamond exploration efforts in the Kirkland Lake – New Liskeard area, beginning in 1981 with the discovery of kimberlite boulders in gravel pits in the Larder Lake area and the discovery of kimberlite pipes in the area by Lac Minerals and Monopros Ltd. (De Beers). In the late 1980s, he provided assistance to Chuck Fipke when he was collecting kimberlite samples for his GSC report.

He has visited three operating diamond mines (Ekati, Diavik and Victor) and attended at numerous drill programs searching for kimberlite. He has authoured recommendations for diamond exploration in the OGS Resident Geologist Reports of Activities. In 2005, he published the results of his diamond in lamprophyre project, the highlight of which was recovering 23 microdiamonds in a lamprophyre dyke at the Nipissing Mine in Cobalt.

He is currently a director of both the Northern Prospectors Association and the Ontario Prospectors Association. He is also a Fellow of the Geological Association of Canada.

Gary has a BSc from Lakehead University, 1975.

MARTIN ETHIER P.GEO

Martin Ethier is a consulting geologist (Hinterland Geoscience & Geomatics) and has worked since 2001 as a geologist/remote sensing/GIS specialist in the mining industry on a variety of exploration projects such as diamond-bearing kimberlites, silver-cobalt deposits, gold, Ni-Cu-PGE and in the industrial mineral industry including graphite, sand/gravel deposits and rock quarries.

Diamond exploration has been a strong interest throughout his schooling and career. He has contributed in the discoveries of numerous Kimberlites (pipes and dykes) in NE Ontario-NW Quebec corridor. Working on the large Lapointe Kimberlite (Tres-Or Resources Ltd.) has been a major highlight – from data integration-till sampling to discovery drilling and large Diameter sampling (50 tons).

Martin Ethier graduated from Mount Allison University in Sackville New Brunswick (1997). In addition, he completed an intensive Post Graduate Advanced Diploma in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems from the Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) in Lawrencetown Nova Scotia (1998). He obtained a Master’s of Science Degree in Geology from Acadia University in Wolfville Nova Scotia (2001).

JIM MACKAY

Jim started his geology/mining career by graduating from the Haileybury School of Mines.  He then went to work in exploration for Texas Gulf Sulphur in the Timmins area for several years, and married to Nancy Thoday from Haileybury.  Jim then went to the South Dakota School of Mines where he earned degrees in Geological Engineering and a Masters in Mining Engineering.  Jim’s wife Nancy also got her Masters degree in Mining Engineering; the first female ever in the history of the school.

Jim worked for a year on the iron range in Minnesota before being hired by Ingersoll Rand and sent to Arizona.  After a few years with Ingersoll Rand, Jim decided to start his own business which grew to several successful companies focused on the mining business.   After 28 years, Jim sold his company and retired in 2011.

Jim was first interested in RJK when his brother Rob (Now VP of Corporate Development) told him about RJK acquiring the Bishop properties south of Cobalt, on February 5, 2019.  Both Rob and Jim remembered their Geology Professor, Dan Atchison, from the Haileybury School of Mines telling the mining school students that he hoped a graduate would be the one who found the source of the 800 Carat Nipissing Diamond.  Jim decided to join his fellow Haileybury School of Mines graduates associated with RJK Explorations to discover the source of the 800 Carat Nipissing Diamond.

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