Advisory Board
The Medallion Board of Expert Advisors
Medallion has a pre-eminent board of experts to advise it as it strives to become a new leader in the exploration for rare-earth elements. Each member is chosen for general excellence in the mining and financial industries and for significant specialties that will assist Medallion in acquiring properties, financing, technologies and recognition in the business and technical worlds.
James G. Clark, PhD, LGeo
Jim Clark brings to Medallion 30 years of exploration experience in a broad cross section of commodities, including rare-earth-elements (REE’s). He is the current Vice President of Exploration for Rare Element Resources Ltd (TSX-V: RES), owner of the Bear Lodge, Wyoming, REE project. Dr Clark has a strong field and laboratory orientation with extensive experience in managing exploration programs for REE’s, niobium, gold, base metals, and industrial minerals. He has worked for Molycorp Inc’s REE program and played a key role in Hecla Mining Company’s identification of the Bear Lodge REE resource. Dr Clark is the owner and Chief Geologist of Applied Petrographics, Inc, a consulting company he formed in 1998 to provide petrographic and micro-analytical services to the mining industry. He holds a PhD from the University of Oregon and is an NI43-101 Qualified Person licensed in the State of Washington.
Dennis LaPoint, PhD, LGeo
Dennis LaPoint is founder and president of Appalachian Resources LLC, a North Carolina Corporation focused on exploration project development and management. With nearly 40 years of exploration experience, Dr LaPoint has been active in a variety of commodities including gold, base metals, uranium and tin. He also has significant experience in lateritic terranes and bauxite exploration. For the last ten years, he has focused on the Guiana Shield and Suriname, where he discovered the Nassau gold deposit for Alcoa, Inc and served as Cambior Inc’s exploration manager. He has also been general manager of a chemical plant in Oklahoma to recover metals from radioactive tailings. Dr LaPoint received his PhD in geology at the University of Colorado and currently is an adjunct faculty member of the University of North Carolina. He is a licensed geologist in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee and was appointed by the Governor of North Carolina to the State Board, which licenses geologists.
Anthony (Tony) Mariano, PhD
Dr Mariano is a highly-respected geological consultant who has been the “go-to” expert for decades on the geology and mineralogy of rare-earth elements (REEs), niobium, tantalum and other rare metals. A seasoned mineralogist, exploration geologist and petrographer, Tony integrates his strong knowledge of geology, mineralogy and extractive metallurgy to predict the success of proposed rare-earth ventures. Many international companies depend on Dr Mariano’s professional opinions on the economic viability of deposits based on mineralogical examination, lab work and field visits. After earning his PhD in geology from Boston University, Tony worked a number of years at Kennecott Research’s lab in Massachusetts, after which he began his career as a consulting geologist, specializing in carbonatite-hosted rare-earth and niobium deposits. Dr Mariano is an advisor to a number of REE Companies including MolyCorp Inc. (NYSE:MCP) and Rare Element Resources Ltd. (AMEX: REE, TSX.V:RES,).
To view a recent interview with Dr. Mariano visit:
» http://www.theaureport.com/pub/na/6962
Rare Earth Mining Innovations: Anthony Mariano
» http://www.theaureport.com/pub/na/11972
Robert R. Roe, MS Geosciences
Mr. Roe is an expert consulting geologist with over 35 years of diverse experience in mineral exploration, mining-property evaluation, mineral-sands evaluation and supply-chain management. Robert has managed regional polymetallic exploration programs in diverse geologic environments for a variety of mineral commodities including gold, base metals, uranium and titanium. He has worked on all major continents while working for Rio Algom, Phelps Dodge and Essex International as a field geologist and for Kerr McGee Corporation as regional exploration manager and manager of geological services. Environmental remediation is also part of Mr. Roe’s resume, leading a Kerr-McGee in-house group of geosciences professionals to deal with remediation of nuclear, mining and chemical-manufacturing sites. Additionally at Kerr-McGee, and its spin-off Tronox, Robert provided titanium-resource evaluations in support of the third largest manufacturer of titanium oxide in the world. Mr. Roe has a MS Geosciences degree from the University of Arizona and is a member of the Society of Economic Geologists.
David Shaw, PhD
Dr. Shaw has nearly three decades of experience in the resource and finance industry, with specific emphasis on technical and financial due diligence of resource projects. David is an independent geological consultant and has focused on geological analysis of structural controls of ore mineralization and on the risk and financial assessment of resource-projects investments. In September 2009, Dr. Shaw was appointed Chairman of Salares Lithium Inc. One year later, Salares Lithium completed a merger with Talison Minerals Pty Ltd (TSX: TLH), combining their respective lithium assets and creating the world’s largest, publicly traded lithium production and exploration company. David is currently a director for Talison. He is also a director of First Majestic Silver Corp (TSX: FR), Pan Pacific Aggregates PLC, (LSE: PPA) and Albion Petroleum Ltd (TSX-V-NEX). Dr. Shaw has held the position of Senior Mining Analyst, Corporate Finance, at Yorkton Securities Inc, based in Vancouver and Santiago, Chile. He attained a PhD in Structural Geology from Carleton University, Canada.
