Christopher G. Fozard, B.Sc.

Chris Fozard has over twenty years of Canadian and international geological experience, beginning prior to graduation from Earth Science at Simon Fraser University in 2008. He has managed exploration and drill projects in remote locations including China, Liberia, Chile, and across Canada in Yukon, Northwest Territories, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario. Mr. Fozard has worked on deposit types including Archean, Carlin-type, epithermal, and orogenic gold, molybdenum porphyry, magmatic chromium-cumulate, and volcanogenic massive sulphides. His work sees exploration programs executed through all conditions and across language barriers, consistently delivering timely information and high-quality data. Mr. Fozard specializes in project management using his geological experience and team-building skills to organise crews and coordinate with contractors and clients.

Riley T. Ledoux, P.Geo

Riley Ledoux, Professional Geologist, graduated with distinction from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Science majoring in Geology. Since 2017 he has worked as an exploration consultant working with major and junior mining companies in Yukon, Northwest Territories, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, and Labrador. He has collected a wealth of experience on various deposit types including Archean and orogenic gold, Alkalic Porphyry, volcanogenic massive sulphides, shale-hosted massive sulphide, Mississippi Valley type, and uranium deposits. Spanning the full project lifecycle, from remote mapping to NI 43-101 reporting, Mr. Ledoux specializes in the strategic management of advanced-stage exploration programs and complex drill campaign planning.

Yi Jia (Shirley) Tai, B.Sc.

Shirley Tai graduated from the University of Victoria in 2020 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Earth and Ocean Science. Since then, Ms. Tai has worked in Yukon, Northwest Territories and Manitoba on Carlin-type, Archean gold, orogenic gold, and volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits. She has successfully managed multiple drill programs and put in efforts to make sure all deliverables are up to or exceed client standards. Ms. Tai contributes her geology knowledge and efficient communication skills to help push programs forward while maintaining a priority on safety.

Jack Gilfillan, B.Sc.

Jack Gilfillan graduated from the University of Victoria in 2021 with a Bachelor of Science in Earth Science and a minor in Geographical Information Technology. Since 2019 he has worked on Archean and orogenic gold deposits in British Columbia, iron ore deposits and orogenic gold in Western Australia and more recently VMS deposits in Manitoba. Mr. Gilfillan has led regional field programs for diamond drilling, soil and rock sampling, geological mapping, and has been responsible for core logging, chip logging, rig management, modelling of results, and report writing, and is proficient using MX Deposit, Acquire, Leapfrog, Micromine, ArcGIS, QGIS, and QField. Jack combines his geological knowledge with his leadership and communication skills to build effective and efficient teams in the field.

Ryan Pownall

Ryan brings nearly twenty years of domestic and international operational experience to the team. A retired Corporal Logistics Specialist with the Australian Army, he holds Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) and Basic Life Support (BLS) certifications. He has managed field operations for hundreds of thousands of metres of drilling across Canada and Australia. His diverse background includes leading Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) crews in Africa and South America, and wildlife conservation work in South Africa. Since joining Geominex in 2022, Ryan has directed several large-scale logistics programs, overseeing complex mobilizations in remote-access environments nationwide.

Aidan McCreadie

Aidan brings nearly a decade of mineral exploration experience at Geominex from projects across Canada, including greenfield and advanced-stage programs in British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Manitoba, Ontario, and Newfoundland. His background includes hundreds-of-thousands of metres of diamond and sonic drilling across a wide range of deposit types including Archean lode gold, VMS, epithermal systems, and spodumene-bearing pegmatites. His hands-on leadership and ability to coordinate large crews under remote and often challenging conditions make him a reliable asset in fast-paced exploration environments.

Dr. Allan Miller, Ph.D.

Dr. Miller is the principal of a mineral deposits consulting company that has been active for the last 25 years. Prior to 1997, Dr. Miller spent 25 years with the Geological Survey of Canada as a Mineral Deposits Research Scientist responsible for regional-scale metallogeny, deposit-scale alteration studies and regional and detailed mapping in northern Canada (eastern Northwest Territories and Nunavut).

Dr. Miller has worked on multiple deposit types: lode and epithermal gold, Ni-Cu-PGE, sediment-hosted red bed copper-silver and lead-zinc, uranium, diamonds, volcanogenic massive sulphide, and copper-gold porphyry in northern Canada, throughout Central and South America, Mexico, China, Russian Federation and Fennoscandia.

Dr. Miller has numerous publications to his name and has been a guest lecturer at several universities in both Canada and Europe.

For the past 15 years, Dr. Miller has worked exclusively with Geominex Consultants as our primary consulting geologist responsible for detailed geological mapping, ore petrography, SEM, deposit vectoring and ore deposit modelling.

Klodiana Kondo, CHRP

Klodiana first joined Geominex in 2008, contributing to the company’s early success by wearing different hats at its first mining exploration camp. She later transitioned to the Vancouver head office, where she continued supporting the company’s operations. After gaining valuable experience across various industries as an HR professional, Klodiana returned to Geominex in 2024 as HR Manager during a period of significant growth.

With over a decade of experience in human resources, Klodiana brings deep expertise in talent management—including employer branding, succession planning, and recruitment—as well as employee relations, performance management, compensation, and HR analytics. She is passionate about driving process improvements, advising leaders on HR best practices, and serving as a strategic business partner across the organization.

Len Gal, M.Sc.

MSc Geology and over 30 years experience in mineral exploration and with Government Surveys. Len started in mineral exploration in BC’s Golden Triangle, and since that time has worked on projects throughout mainly northern and western Canada, but including USA, central and South America, Australia, Asia, Newfoundland and Greenland. He has in-the-field experience with diverse mineral deposit types including: orogenic and epithermal gold, porphyries, VMS, SEDEX, MVT, skarn, ultramafic intrusions, diamonds, sediment-hosted Cu, and others. Len has a strong skill set in geological mapping and analysis from regional government program scale down to detailed trench mapping and core and thin section studies. Through his career he has been involved in reconnaissance and research, property acquisition, development and execution of exploration programs from grassroots prospecting to drill testing, and expert technical reporting.