Kirk Hanson has 32 years of experience in operations, engineering, management, and consulting roles within the mining industry. He is an MBA and is a Registered Professional Mining Engineer in multiple states. Kirk has 13 years of operational and mine engineer experience at large open-pit mines located in Northern Nevada. He was a planning engineer for the start-up of a roaster project and a mine expansion at Cortez Gold Mines and a Chief Engineer at Barrick’s Goldstrike operation, where he was responsible for all aspects of open-pit mining, mine designs, mine expansions, and strategic planning. After earning an MBA in 2004, he was assistant manager of operations and maintenance for the largest road department in Idaho. In 2007, he joined AMEC (now Wood) as a Principal Mining Consultant and over the past 15 years, has been the mining lead for multiple scoping, pre-feasibility, and feasibility studies. Kirk’s expertise includes financial modeling, mine planning and optimization, and mine fleet design and costing.