Darren Holden is a geology graduate of the University of Otago (NZ) & The University of Western Australia. He has worked in both mining and mineral exploration environments all over the world and is a recognized leader where he brings passion, verve and creativity to mineral exploration. Darren is a specialist in hard rock mineral exploration including epithermal and mesothermal gold & silver, porphyry copper gold, base+precious metal, base metal vms, mafic hosted nickel-copper-pge, sedex style. Corporately Darren is well connected in Australian and North American financing scenes and is a noted presenter and speaker and has helped raise over $100M for the mineral exploration industry.