Mining Exploration CEOs: Who Makes the Best Boss?

Mining Exploration CEOs: Who Makes the Best Boss? By John Hurst, Resourcex.com What qualities are ideal for the junior resource company CEO? Does financial ability trump geological talent? Or vice versa? Resourcex asked two active Chief Executive Officers in the Vancouver mining exploration community for their thoughts on this age old mining dichotomy. Ian Foreman is president and director, Yale Resources Ltd. (TSXV: YLL). He has worked in a wide spectrum of geological environments involving both base and precious metals. Throughout the mid 1990's, Foreman worked on a series of large multi-million- dollar exploration programs in British Columbia, the Yukon and Mexico. As chief geologist, he was a key figure in putting Peru’s 1,000-tonne-per-day Santa Rosa open pit View the rest of this article