Author name: James E. Bond
James E. Bond is an attorney, prospector, mining executive and mineral land consultant with more than 40 years experience in the mining sector. Mr. Bond has also been active in exploration, acquisition and evaluation of precious and base metal properties in the U.S. and Canada. He has actively prospected for gold, base metals, and the PGEs in many parts of North America.
He is currently actively engaged in consulting and advisory efforts for a number of publicly listed junior exploration companies both in gold and in base metals.
Mr. Bond’s hard rock and metal prospecting activities have resulted in the confirmation of significant PGE and nickel-copper-cobalt mineralization at Samuels Lake, gold and copper at Minnitaki Lake, and copper, nickel and PGE at Rainy Lake in the Province of Ontario. These projects were or are now controlled by publicly traded companies and have all had significant exploration and core drilling. In addition over the last few years he has been actively involved in the acquisition of additional coal, platinum, gold and base metal properties by a number of other private and public mining companies. He has actively vended numerous mining properties in the province of Ontario, Canada which have been, or are now, the subject of significant exploration and drilling. In addition to his coal and related activities in the US Mr. Bond has been actively involved with Gold, Base Metal and industrial mineral properties in a number of states in the US including Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado, Minnesota, North and South Carolina and Virginia.
Mr. Bond was awarded his permanent Ontario prospectors licence in 2004