Eric Olson

Eric Olson
Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Olson earned his BSc. in Mining Engineering from The Mackay School of Mines, Reno, Nevada in 1980 and completed The Executive Program at Rice University, Houston, Texas in 1991.

From 2001 to 2006, Mr. Olson was a principal of the Range Consulting Group a Houston based minerals consulting firm which specialized in project evaluation, resource and reserve estimation, due-diligence and financial analysis. Mr. Olson authored several NI 43-101 Technical Reports.

From 1985 to 2001, Mr. Olson was with Battle Mountain Gold Company. In 1991, he was promoted to Director of Corporate Development, where he directed the company’s corporate development and acquisition efforts until the 2001 acquisition by Newmont. He performed a key role in two major mining industry transactions at the time which included the US$2.0 billion cross-border merger with Hemlo Gold and the $750 million acquisition of Battle Mountain by Newmont. Before Battle Mountain, Mr. Olson was a mining engineer for Duval Corporation from 1980 to 1985 at several open pit and underground operations.