Mr. Mario Caron is a mining executive with over 40 years of experience in the mining industry in senior executive and board positions. His experience was gained nationally and internationally in both underground and open pits operations. Mr. Caron has been Chief Executive Officer and director with Axmin Inc, a company developing a gold project in Central African Republic and Tiberon Minerals Ltd., the developer of a tungsten/fluorspar mine in Vietnam. He was instrumental in obtaining the mining license for the Vietnamese project. He was also closely involved in the project financing, in the engineering and development of that project. As CEO of public companies, he secured mining licenses and various permits in numerous jurisdictions. He is the chairman of Alloycorp Mining Inc., a privatized company since August 2016 with a molybdenum deposit in British Columbia.
Mr. Caron received his Bachelor of Engineering, Mining at McGill University and is a member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec and the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario.