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Mr. Duff is an experienced mining executive with 35 years of diverse international experience in the precious and base metal mining industry in U.S., Canada, Latin America and Australasia. He earned a BS degree in geology from the Mackay School of Mines at the University of Nevada Reno, an MS degree in geology from the University of Idaho, and he completed the Program for Management Development at the Harvard School of Business. Mr. Duff has previously been employed by Bear Creek Mining Company (Kennecott Copper Company), Newmont Mining Company, Cyprus Mining Company, White Pine Copper Company, the Bunker Hill Company, St. Joe Minerals, Bond International Gold Company and Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation. From 1995 through 2002 he was Vice President of Business Development for Coeur d'Alene Mines, a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange,and he is currently President of South American Operations for Coeur d’Alene Mines, based in La Paz, Bolivia. Mr. Duff also serves as the non-executive Chairman of Little Squaw Gold Mining Company, a publicly listed U.S. company that has a large exploration stage gold property in Alaska. | 