Michael Thomsen

Executive Chairman & Founding Director

Michael has an extensive and highly successful career in mineral exploration spanning his +40 years in the mining sector.  He has held senior exploration management positions with major companies: Newmont Mining, Freeport McMoRan and Gold Fields Mining. 

Michael directed exploration efforts in two of the world’s major mining districts as Director of International Exploration for Newmont at the Yanacocha, Peru high sulphidation gold district and as Chief Geologist for Freeport Indonesia at the Ertsberg-Grasberg porphyry copper-gold district.  Michael is now directing his attention to the challenge of discovering the next major Rare Earth Elements deposit in the United States. 

The US Government has deemed REE’s as commodities critical to domestic security and technology.  There is a distinct lack of viable domestic sources of these metals and Michael has developed a new geologic model that hosts these critical elements and he is in the process of defining these new deposits.