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Danniel Oosterman, P.Geo

Swastika,ON

Summary

Professionally designated geologist, self-starter, with over 20 years experience in the mining and exploration industry, with a strong familiarity with the junior mining sector, and related capital markets, and the challenges and nuances uniquely related to this sector. An individual who has worked alongside and built teams with strong expertise, industry veterans, as well as mentoring promising new talent to advance projects to deliver their value. Maintains a strong background and association with projects at all levels from advanced stage projects to early grassroots-level projects. Comfortable in the boardroom or in the field with extensive experience target definition and geological modeling. Strong field-based expertise coupled with experience in corporate management and development in the ever challenging junior mining market from numerous positions from VP Exploration to President and CEO provides me with insight to all levels of challenges that companies might encounter. This includes raising funds, project promotion/development, and strategic planning, design and execution of critical paths and identifying and meeting key performance indicators. My experience has led to my being a strategic thinker, adaptable to change and able to multitask and prioritize at any given time.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience

Work History

VP Exploration

Leeuwin Metals Inc.
01.2023 - Current
  • Spearheaded cross-functional initiatives across departments to achieve business goals for bottom-line profits.
  • Hired and managed employees to maximize productivity while training staff on best practices and protocols.
  • Exploration design and execution of sulphide nickel project (William Lake Nickel) including providing key technical oversight and field supervision of geological team
  • Aligned organizational objectives with company mission to increase business growth and integrate work strategies.
  • Drafted and secured exploration agreements with key First Nation stakeholders for the project (Mosakahiken Cree Nation)
  • Developed project-wide exploration model for company's flagship project maximizing opportunities for new discoveries
  • Building the Company’s lithium project technical requirements

Principal Consultant

GoDO Geology Inc.
08.2022 - Current
  • Provide technical services for clients including authoring of technical reports, maps, financial data, digitization
  • Social outreach for clients with First Nations groups for securing permissions to work on exploration projects from grassroots to diamond drilling
  • Conducted thorough reviews of operations to devise and deploy improvement strategies.
  • Compiled research data and gave professional presentations highlighting finds and recommended optimizations
  • Provision of technical input for First Nations with respect to mining projects within designated Resource Management Areas

CEO

Flying Nickel Mining Corp
12.2021 - 08.2022
  • Advanced sulphide nickel project (Minago Nickel Project) including providing key technical oversight in it's acquistion from the former operator
  • Cultivated performance-oriented milestones implementing key performance indicators to advance project Feasibility Study
  • Initiated discussions for potential nickel offtake with numerous groups including Glencore, Trafigura, EcoPro, and Blackstone Minerals
  • Initiated discussions with potential project-level financing-tier groups such as General Motors, Toyota, Mitsubishi and Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC), Blackstone Minerals, and EcoPro
  • Maintained effective staff and resource utilization rates to balance financial and regulatory obligations
  • Drove implementation of marketing and financing, including involvement in Plan of Arrangement to a successful new SpinCo (Flying Nickel) including acheiving a successful listing on the TSXV exchange
  • Successfully negotiated a Memorandum of Understanding with Norway House Chief and Council
  • Participated directly in field work and execution as the QP of all Company projects during my tenure, implementing QA/QC protocols to NI43-101 standard
  • Built a strong team of industry professionals to assist in advancing the project

VP

Silver Elephant Mining Corp
02.2018 - 12.2021
  • In charge of exploration and advancing of silver, gold and vanadium projects
  • Planned and successfully executed drilling programs in the South American Andes (Bolivia)
  • Hired and managed employees building strong team with geological expertise in the Andean Cordillera in Bolivia
  • Participated in social outreach with community of Pulacayo, Pulacayo, Bolivia
  • Oversaw the discovery of shale-hosted vanadium showings in the Woodruff Formation in the Carlin Trend, Nevada
  • Successfully added new projects to the company’s stable from project generation to implementation of geological mapping, sampling, trenching and drilling, leading to the tripling the formerly known strike extent of company's gold project in Bolivia
  • Developed project-wide exploration model for company's flagship project maximizing opportunities new discoveries
  • Implemented more stringent geological domain modeling leading to an opportunity for an open-pittable oxide silver resource for the company
  • Participated directly in field work and execution as the QP of all Company projects during my tenure, implementing QA/QC protocols to NI43-101 standard

President & CEO

Canstar Resources Inc
03.2013 - 12.2017
  • Explored for gold (shear hosted) and base metals (VMS)
  • Ran company as sole-employee, overseeing all aspects of both corporate management and exploration projects from concept to execution as well as leading marketing and financing for these projects year-over-year
  • Maintained effective staff and resource utilization rates to balance financial and regulatory obligations
  • Navigated and negotiated agreements with key joint-venture partner, Glencore Plc, on company's flagship project in the Buchans Mining Camp
  • Successfully negotiated work permits with Anishinabewaki First Nations ensuring good stewardship and oversight within traditional Treaty #3 lands
  • Successfully added new projects to the company’s stable from project generation to the diamond drilling stage resulting in the discovery of gold mineralization in Kenora, Ontario
  • Discovered zinc-bearing footwall zone for the company's VMS project in Newfoundland
  • Resolved outstanding legal issues facing the company upon joining the company by successfully negotiating with parties directly and on mutually agreeable terms

Exploration Manager

Prophecy Platinum Corp
09.2009 - 11.2012
  • Exploration for Ni-Cu-PGE and Porphyry Cu-Au
  • Managed several projects including flagship Wellgreen Ni-Cu-PGE Project
  • Responsibilities included drill program planning, execution and managing personnel, as well as corporate development
  • Oversaw all third party technical aspects of all projects including resource calculation, metallurgy, preliminary economic assessments, communicating persistently with consultants to achieve desired results
  • Participated directly in field work and execution as the QP of all Company projects during my tenure, implementing QA/QC protocols to NI43-101 standard
  • Directly managed a remote camp in the Kluane Range of the Yukon Terroritory of 16 personnel including oversight of all logisitcs, safety protocols, permits, and general camp operations as well as exploration activity
  • Effectively communicated at all levels of the company from the Board of Directors and CEO down to technical field personnel.

Senior Geologist

Ginguro Exploration Inc
03.2009 - 09.2009
  • Paleoplacer Au (‘Witswatersrand-type’), Iron-Oxide-Gold-Copper (IOGC)
  • Compiled geological data and organized and executed field program for the Company’s primary gold project, including drilling and geophysics
  • Personally undertook geological mapping leading to current geological model for the area including delineating nature and occurrence of controlling structures for gold deposition on the Property.

VP

Lynn Lake Project, Victory Nickel Corp
01.2008 - 03.2009
  • Explored for Ni-Cu-PGE in Northern Manitoba
  • Assisted in transition of corporate takeover of Independent Nickel Corp
  • And maintained project standing to meet obligations for the project
  • Initiated and oversaw commencement of metallurgical program focused on bioleach technology including QA/QC protocols for acquiring necessary bulk sample material.

VP Exploration

Independent Nickel Corp
01.2005 - 01.2008
  • Explored for Magmatic Ni-Cu
  • Managed all geological aspects of the Lynn Lake Ni-Cu project, including acquisition of historical database comprising of over 7,000 hard copy drill hole logs and digitization of historic level plans and geological and engineering sections
  • Developed and defined an exploration program based on historic data with full QA/QC protocol, and executed this program leading to drilling and logging of 37,000 meters of drill core
  • Worked in close conjuncttion with management and consultants in developing an updated NI43-101 resource and economic assessment of the project
  • Acted as Exploration Manager and promoted to VP Exploration in early 2008
  • In addition to drilling, modeling, and mapping, responsibilities included complete logistical oversight of the project from execution to contractor choices, to community relations
  • Discovered a previously unknown deposit on the property in 2008
  • This work led to keen interest from several mining groups including Hunter Dickenson who publically made an offer on the property after extensive technical due diligence in Q3 2008
  • The company was subsequently taken over by Victory Nickel Corp
  • In Q4 2008.

Project Geologist

Wallbridge Mining Company
01.2002 - 01.2005
  • Astrobleme Associated Ni-Cu-PGE, Magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE, Volcanogenic Massive Sulphides (VMS), Mesothermal Au
  • Designed and executed grassroots exploration program for several commodities types, with primary focus on Ni-Cu-PGE’s
  • Responsibilities included managing diamond drilling programs, target definition, ground trothing, and geological mapping at 1:10,000 to 1:100 scale
  • Oversaw projects from pure prospecting base to drill ready stage including the discovery of a previously unknown mafic-ultramafic intrusion with attendant Ni-Cu showings
  • Worked over several geological terranes and Subprovinces including the Swayze and Abitibi greenstone belts, and within and around the Sudbury Intrusive Complex.

Project Geologist

INCO Technical Services Ltd
01.2001 - 01.2002
  • Thompson-style Ni-Cu
  • Explored for Thompson-type Ni-Cu deposits in the Thompson Nickel Belt (TNB) using modern geophysical methods followed by diamond drilling
  • Exploration was conducted in both the mining environment and at the District-scale
  • Gained experience in overseeing multiple drills in extreme weather conditions and boggy terrains, as well as gaining underground experience
  • Completed over 15,000m meters of core logging of Thompson suite rocks as well as structural logging of oriented core.

Jr. Geologist/Geologist

Falconbridge Ltd, Kidd Creek Mine
01.1998 - 01.2001
  • Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide (VMS), Iron-Oxide-Copper-Gold (IOGC)
  • Participated in exploration for VMS and IOGC-type deposits
  • Work comprised of mapping and grassroots field exploration
  • Formulated geochemical index based on hydrothermal trace elements in argillites using existing database for Graduate level study.

Education

BSc (Hons) -

Laurentian University
Sudbury, Ontario

Skills

  • Experience in capital markets, financing, marketing, communication
  • Comprehensive technical expertise and field geology skillset
  • Excellent people and team building skills
  • Excellent writing and communication skills
  • Proficient at Systat and Excel as well as standard word processing software packages
  • Proficient at MapInfo and Leapfrog Geo
  • Familiar with Autocad GIS and ArcGIS software packages
  • Familiar with Datamine, Surpac resource modeling packages

Affiliations

Member of the Professional Geoscientists of Ontario

Timeline

VP Exploration

Leeuwin Metals Inc.
01.2023 - Current

Principal Consultant

GoDO Geology Inc.
08.2022 - Current

CEO

Flying Nickel Mining Corp
12.2021 - 08.2022

VP

Silver Elephant Mining Corp
02.2018 - 12.2021

President & CEO

Canstar Resources Inc
03.2013 - 12.2017

Exploration Manager

Prophecy Platinum Corp
09.2009 - 11.2012

Senior Geologist

Ginguro Exploration Inc
03.2009 - 09.2009

VP

Lynn Lake Project, Victory Nickel Corp
01.2008 - 03.2009

VP Exploration

Independent Nickel Corp
01.2005 - 01.2008

Project Geologist

Wallbridge Mining Company
01.2002 - 01.2005

Project Geologist

INCO Technical Services Ltd
01.2001 - 01.2002

Jr. Geologist/Geologist

Falconbridge Ltd, Kidd Creek Mine
01.1998 - 01.2001

BSc (Hons) -

Laurentian University

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