Peter Kleespies

Peter has over 30 years of technical and management experience in mineral exploration covering North and South America, Australia, and Africa. Prior to his appointment at VP Ex, Peter was an integral part of Tectonic’s technical team, focused on the exploration and interpretation of the Company’s Alaska properties. Peter’s corporate industry experience includes roles as Vice President - Exploration for North Country Gold Corp. and Niblack Mineral Development Inc., Director and President for Altiplano Minerals Ltd., Director for both Cedar Mountain Exploration Inc and Brilliant Resources Inc. Peter has extensive experience exploring for and delineating orogenic gold deposits, particularly in northern climates having managed large exploration programs in the Canadian arctic across the Committee Bay greenstone belt and at Hope Bay greenstone belt for Miramar Mining Corp, where the 8.5-million-ounce gold deposit was sold to Newmont for $1.5 billion in 2007. Peter holds MSc and BSc (Hons) degrees in geology from the University of Alberta.