Chris Osterman, Ph.D., P.Geo.
Technical Advisor
With a PhD (Geology) from the Colorado School of Mines, Chris Osterman is an Exploration Strategist with over forty years of experience in all stages of the mining industry thorough out Africa, North and South America, and Asia. Chris has enjoyed key roles in the reconnaissance and initial discoveries of the Malku Khota silver deposit in Bolivia (370 Moz Ag), the San Jose silver and gold mine in Oaxaca, Mexico (84 Moz Ag equivalent), and the Zuun Mod copper/moly deposit in Mongolia (273 M lbs Mo/ 330 M lb Cu). Recently, he served as an executive in First Mining Gold Corp as the company built a largely indicated gold resource of 12 Moz of gold in Eastern Canada through a series of acquisitions of private and TSX companies. Currently, Chris has founded and serves as President of the Phoenix Silver Corporation, a private company exploring a unique native silver deposit in the Proterozoic rocks of central Arizona.