The purpose of the exploration advisory board is to provide guidance to Visionary’s exploration team, to implement innovative practices for systematic mineral exploration and to evaluate new projects for the company with the ultimate objective of maximizing the company’s opportunities to make new gold discoveries.
Mr. Felsman has extensive, invaluable experience in Wyoming having worked as a senior geologist for GFG Resources at its advanced stage Rattlesnake Hills Gold Project .
We are also pleased that we have garnered the support of a very experienced and historically successful team of advisors that have participated in the discovery of multiple economically viable assets in Wyoming and across the globe.
He began his career in the Bear Lodge Mountains of NE Wyoming, where he advanced from intern to senior geologist in charge of REE exploration, helping advance the project from grassroots exploration through feasibility and mine permitting.
Mr. Hausel is a consulting and research geologist, awarded for research and discoveries including the 2009 Thayer Lindsey Award for his part in discovery of the Donlin Creek gold deposit, Alaska .
Mr. Spiering graduated from the University of Utah with a Bachelor of Science in 1978 and is a registered member of Society of Mining, Metallurgy, & Exploration, a member of the Society of Economic Geologists and a fellow member of Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
He has over 40 years of international experience in mineral exploration and senior level project management in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Turkey, Central America, Central Asia, Caucuses and North Africa.
Other uranium districts he has worked in include Grants, NM; Crooks Gap-Green Mountain, Wy; Gas Hills, Wy; Shirley Basin, WY; Powder River Basin, Wy; Copper Mountain, WY; Green River, UT; Moab, UT; Blanding, UT; Elk Ridge, UT; San Rafael, UT; White-Red Canyon, UT; Monument Valley, UT-AZ; Marysvale, UT; Uravan, CO; Spokane Indian Reservation, WA; plus numerous other districts as well as many isolated deposits and conceptual targets.
He has been the principal geophysicist on a long term consulting basis to several mining companies; Rio Narcea in Spain and Portugal exploring for gold and nickel, Energy Fuels in the western US for uranium and gold, Vinland Resources in Newfoundland and Labrador exploring for nickel and gold, JNR Resources in the Athabasca Basin, and Denison Mines in the US and Canada.
Such factors include, but are not limited to capital and operating costs varying significantly from management estimates; the preliminary nature of metallurgical test results; delays in obtaining or failures to obtain required governmental, environmental or other project approvals; uncertainties relating to the availability and costs of financing needed in the future; inflation; fluctuations in commodity prices; delays in the development of projects; and the other risks involved in the mineral exploration and development industry generally.