Allan MacTavish is a specialist in PGE-Cu-Ni exploration and obtained a B.Sc. (Honours) Degree in Geology from Laurentian University in 1977 and a M.Sc. Degree in Geology from Lakehead University in 1992. He has been actively involved in the mineral exploration industry since 1975 with various major and junior mining/mineral exploration companies and has also worked as a Field Geoscientist for the Ontario Geological Survey. He has been Exploration Manager, Canada for Magma Metals (Canada) Limited and its successor Panoramic PGMs (Canada) Limited since May 2007, and is based in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He and his staff were instrumental in bringing the Magma/Panoramic Thunder Bay North Pt-Pd-Cu-Ni deposit from a newly discovered raw prospect to a well-defined, polymetallic, magmatic sulphide deposit with a 9.8 million tonne indicated resource. Before joining Magma Metals/ Panoramic Resources he was a Consulting Geologist specializing in PGE-Ni-Cu exploration.