Robert J. Quinn

Robert J. Quinn, Independent Director . has been a director of the Company since September 2005. Mr. Quinn is a lawyer and a founding partner of the Houston law firm Quinn & Brooks LLP.

Mr. Quinn has more than 25 years of legal and management experience, including serving as the vice-president and general counsel of Battle Mountain Gold Co., a New York Stock Exchange listed precious metals mining company, and as an attorney with Hecla Mining Company in Idaho. Mr. Quinn's legal and management experience includes due diligence, negotiation and documentation of mergers and acquisitions, project and corporate financings, and engineering and construction contracts. Mr. Quinn also has extensive experience with transactions, corporate governance, public disclosure, governmental affairs, and environmental and land management issues, with in-depth exposure to mining projects in North America, South America, Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Mr. Quinn earned a B.S.B.A in economics from the University of Denver, a J.D. from the University of Denver College of Law and completed two years of graduate work in mineral economics at the Colorado School of Mines.

Mr. Quinn is presently a director of a number of other public mining companies.

Back to Officers and Directors