Management
GLENN C. KASNER
CEO
Mr. Kasner is a graduate of the Haileybury School of Mines (1976) and has been involved in the mineral exploration industry since the age of 16, forming Glenn C. Kasner Exploration Services Ltd., in 1983 to provide contract mineral exploration services for clients. Mr. Kasner became President and CEO of RJK Explorations Ltd in 1998.
GINO CHITARONI
President
Gino Chitaroni a lifelong resident of the Cobalt-Coleman area. His father and brothers were former silver mine owners and operators in the 1960-70s. Gino is a graduate of the Haileybury School of Mines and then went on to obtain a Degree in Geology with a minor in Business at Lake Superior State University. Gino is currently the President of the Northern Prospectors Association along with that of being a board member of the Ontario Prospectors Association. He also a long time member of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada. Gino served on the Cobalt town council for 17 years where he was heavily involved in economic development and heritage/tourism development projects for the community. Concurrently, he operated Polymet Labs, an assay laboratory and bulk-sample plant as President from 2000-2020 and as a President of Blackstone Development Inc since 1997. Gino has consulted and worked for numerous mining and exploration companies in various start-up phases and worked as a miner for Agnico-Eagle Mines, and project geologist EGO-Resources/Cobatec and beat geologist for Teck-Corona in the Hemlo Gold Camp. He was instrumental in bringing to the area Canmine Resources and United Commodity and a number of companies during the Cobalt Boom of 2016-2020, namely, Cobalt Power Group, Cobalt One (now First Cobalt), Brixton Metals, Battery Minerals Corporation and Canada Silver Cobalt Works. And all the while working in the exploration/mining sector, Gino also worked for many years part time for his family’s near by tourist camp, Portage Bay Lodge. And most recently, Gino played a key role in advising and negotiating the land package acquired by RJK in 2019 and now joined his fellow Haileybury School of Mine Graduates in the search for the source of the Nipissing Diamond.
ROBERT J. MACKAY
V/P Corporate Development, Director
Robert Mackay is a graduate from the South Dakota School of Mines with a BSc in Mining Engineering. Robert has worked in diamond drilling, mineral exploration, mine engineering and mine production both open pit and underground.
Robert worked for 20 years in the investment business, was a Vice President of two National investment firms and worked for 5 years as a mining consultant before he founded Stans Energy Corp in 2005 as the President, CEO, and Director until retiring in 2013.
AMANDA KASNER
CPA, CA, CFO & DIRECTOR
Ms. Kasner is an Honors graduate of the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University (2007). Ms. Kasner has worked with the accounting firms of Ernst & Young LLP and Ross Pope & Company and is currently employed with Kirkland Lake Gold Inc., where she holds the position of Corporate Controller.
WILLIAM E. MACRAE
M.SC., P.GEO, DIRECTOR
William MacRae graduated from McMaster University with a post graduate degree in Geology (1982) and has been in the industry for more than 43 years working for such companies as Noranda, Newmont, Kinross Gold, Placer Dome, several Junior Exploration companies and the GSC and OGS. Acted as VP Exploration (Ontario) for Matamec Explorations (2007 to 2008) and sat as a director for Drift Lake resources (2007 to 2011). Mr. MacRae has been primarily in Gold exploration from grass roots projects to bulk sampling of underground mineralization. Mr. MacRae has taken executive positions on several volunteer boards (Porcupine Prospectors and Developers – President, Ontario Prospectors Association – Vice president, Timmins Economic Development Corporation (1991 to 2011).
DAN MACKIE
P. ENG, DIRECTOR
Mr. Mackie is a mechanical engineering graduate from McGill University with over 40 years of experience in the mining industry. Mr. Mackie is President of INNOVAT Mineral Process Solutions Limited and Dan Mackie & Associates, Inc.
Mr. Mackie has an extensive background in EPCM, notably as Project Manager on contract to Bechtel for the Prefeasibility Study for the Collahuasi Project, which included 15,000t/d heap leach, SX/EW and a 60,000 t/d flotation plant. He has been developing Continuous Vat Leaching (CVL) since the early 1990’s.
DIANE MCKEAN
CORPORATE SECRETARY
Ms. McKean has been the office manager and Corporate Secretary for RJK Explorations Ltd., for approximately 18 years. Prior to her role with the Company she spent seven years with the Ministry of Development and Mines recording mining claims and assessing work reports. She is fluent in both English and French.