DON W. KOHLS, PH.D.
1792 Reech Street
Lakewood, Co USA 80228-3702
Phone: 303-989-1854

EXPERIENCE

GOLDFIELDS MINING CORPORATION

Vice President and Chief Consulting Geologist and Member Board of Directors. For fifteen years Kohls was an instrumental component of funding one of the more successful exploration organizations in the world.

NEW JERSEY ZINC

General Manager and Assistant to the President. During the twelve years supervised and generated exploration porjects for zinc, lead, copper, gold, silver and titanium in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, South Africa, Ireland and Arabia. Formed exploration companies in Brazil and South Africa. Manager of New Jersey Zinc (Canada) Ltd.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Influential in the discovery and/or development of:

• Chimney Creek gold deposit in Nevada (+3,000,000 ozs.)
• Mesquite gold deposit in California (+2,500,000 ozs.)
• Morro do Ouro gold deposit in Brazil (+1,730,000 ozs.)
• Mule Canyon gold deposit in Montana (+1,000,000 ozs.)
• Elkhorn gold deposit in Montana (+500,000 ozs.)
• Ortiz gold deposit in New Mexico (+250,000 ozs.)
• Snow Lake gold deposit in Canada (+200,000 ozs.)
• Shafter silver deposit in Texas (+24,000,000 ozs.)
• Paracatu lead-zinc deposit in Brazil (+6,000,000 tonnes: 8 percent Pb/Zn)
• St. Lucia mineral sands deposit in South Africa (+500,000,000 tonnes [7,900,000 tonnes of Ilmenite; 500,000 tonnes Rutile; 1,100,000 tonnes Zircon])

Designed and implemented exploration projects for:

• Gold
• Silver
• Upper Mississippi Valley lead-zinc
• Poly-Metallic massive sulfides
• Heavy mineral sands
• Frasch sulfur
• Rock aggregate
• Established and managed successful exploration companies in the U.S.A., Canada, South Africa, Brazil and Chile.
• Managed budgets ranging from one million dollars to $18 million
  

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Geology and a minor in Physical Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Shell Oil Fellowship, Gamma Epsilon;

M.S. in Geology and minor in Geophysics, University of Minnesota;

B.A. in Geology and minor in Mathematics, Carleton College, four-year honors scholarship and Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi (simultaneously).

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