Grant A. Malensek, P.Eng./P.Geo. is a Managing Principal Mining Engineer with 25 years’ experience in the mining industry.  Prior to joining RPA, Mr. Malensek was a Mineral Project Evaluation Consultant for a large engineering firm where he carried out fatal flaw, due diligence and Independent Engineer reviews for equity and project financings.  He also prepared technical-economic models, project finance models, mineral property and mineral project valuations, and valuations for the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).  Mr. Malensek’s consulting experience includes Feasibility and Prefeasibility Studies, Preliminary Economic Assessments, capital cost estimates and reviews, mine strategy, and options analysis and project evaluations in connection with mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Malensek’s commodities experience includes base and precious metals, iron ore, industrial minerals, and rare earths.  His international experience includes Canada, USA, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Peru, Brazil, and Ghana.

Glen Ehasoo, P.Eng., Principal Mining Engineer, has over 20 years’ experience in all stages of mine development; from permitting to reclamation planning.  His experience includes project evaluation, due diligence reviews, resource modelling, pit optimization, mine scheduling, open pit mine design, mine cost estimating, mine closure planning, tailings management, and cash flow models. Prior to joining RPA, Mr. Ehasoo’s projects have included mine planning for an operating gold mine; mine planning, permitting, and construction and operations for an open pit coal mine; mine planning on numerous studies to Feasibility level; due diligence reviews for open pit and underground gold and base metal mines and properties. Mr. Ehasoo’s experience includes mining operations and exploration projects in North America, South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. 

Normand L. Lecuyer, P.Eng., ing., Principal Mining Engineer, has over 37 years’ experience in the design, operation, and management of underground mines, as well as consulting, in Canada and abroad.  He has worked in senior capacities at a number of gold and base-metal mines, with responsibilities including production management, mine design and planning, and budget preparation. Prior to joining RPA, Mr. Lecuyer was Vice-President Operations with a junior mining company in Quebec where he was responsible for providing support to the mine management, engineering, and operations personnel in reviving operations at two copper mines in northwestern Quebec. Before that, he was Vice-President Operations with a Chinese-Canadian joint venture, with mine and mill and smelter operations in the Guangxi province of China. Mr. Lecuyer has considerable experience in the consulting business and has been involved in numerous assignments, including technical evaluations, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies, and due diligence reviews.   

Hugo M. Miranda, ChCMC(RM), is a Principal Mining Engineer with over 20 years of experience in mining engineering, project management, and consulting. Mr. Miranda's experience includes conceptual stage to feasibility stage projects, and open pit and underground mining operations. He has carried out assignments on projects and mining operations in Chile, Peru, Mexico, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil, USA, Canada, Democratic Republic of Congo, Niger, and Kazakhstan. His commodities experience includes copper, iron, gold, silver, zinc, nickel, uranium, alumina, tellurium, and molybdenum. Mr. Miranda has used a variety of mine planning and evaluation software including Minesight, Vulcan, Gemcom, Xpac, Xeras, Whittle, and Opticut.

Marc Lavigne, M.Sc., ing., is a Principal Mining Engineer with over 27 years of experience in the mining industry.  Mr. Lavigne's experience includes project evaluation, due diligence reviews, mineral reserve estimation, open pit mine design, mine scheduling, and pit optimization.  He has participated in, or managed, many scoping, prefeasibility and feasibility studies for underground and open pit mines.  Mr. Lavigne has worked on precious metals, base metals, iron ore, rare earths and industrial mineral projects in North and South America, Africa and Asia.  He is an experienced user of Surpac and Whittle software for mine design and optimization.  Mr. Lavigne is fluent in French and English.

R. Dennis Bergen, P.Eng. is an Associate Principal Mining Engineer with more than 30 years' experience in corporate and site management, mine development, and operations and mine engineering. Mr. Bergen has extensive experience in project evaluation and acquisition for public companies. His experience includes senior operating responsibilities at a number of mines and projects in northern Canada. Mr. Bergen also has international project experience in North and South America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and China.

Robert L. Michaud, P.Eng., is an Associate Principal Mining Engineer with almost 30 years of management experience in the mining sector in project, operations, and corporate settings. Mr. Michaud’s experience includes both hands-on and leadership roles in the design and implementation of mineral asset validation programs, mine design, feasibility study preparation, operations permitting, design engineering, construction, staffing, plant startup, operations and maintenance, facility closure, and site reclamation. His experience includes the successful development, construction, and operation of three gold and base metal mines. Mr. Michaud’s experience also includes project evaluation, due diligence, investment monitoring, operations improvement, capital project audits, and environmental audits.

Varun Bhundhoo, ing., is a Mining Engineer with four years' experience in the mining industry. His experience includes preparing progress reports showing drill and blast for production and development for two underground mines, and geotechnical and geophysical analysis of rock core samples. Mr. Bhundhoo has experience using Proficient RocScience, GEMCOM, Whittle, Mine 2-4D, AutoCAD, and Amine mining software, and Processing MODFlow geotechnical/hydrogeological software.