Garth Kirkham

Mr. Kirkham is a Registered Professional Geoscientist and is the Principal of Kirkham Geosystems Ltd., Vancouver, BC. which is a full-service provider of geoscience consulting services to the mining, environmental, oil & gas and geotechnical industries.

Kirkham Geosystems specializes in mineral resource estimation and as a Qualified Person in the context of NI43-101 Technical Reports, Mr. Kirkham is a Qualified/Competent Person for a wide variety of commodities and has worked throughout the world as an author for technical reports in support of projects from initial resource estimations, Scoping Study and Preliminary Economic Assessment through to Feasibility Studies.

Garth is the Past-President of the Canadian Institute of Mining (CIM). He is the co-Chair of the CIM Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves Committee and the Chair of the Geoscientists Canada, Securities Committee. He is the past-Chair of the Mineral Deposits Division of the GAC along with being on National Council and the Distinguished Lecturer Coordinator from 2007-2010. He is Past Chair of the Vancouver Mineral Exploration Group (MEG) and a two-term Councillor for with APEGBC along with being Vice-Chair of the Geoscience Committee. He is currently the APEGBC representative and director of Geoscientists Canada. Garth is a fellow of both the Society of Economic Geologists and Geoscientists Canada.

Garth has received a number of awards, including the CJ Westerman Memorial Award in 2015, the highest honor bestowed upon a Geoscientist from the Engineers and Geoscientist of British Columbia.