Advisers

Ewan Downie is an accomplished company builder and entrepreneur who currently serves as the Managing Partner at Giant Venture Capital Group. With over 30 years of experience working in the mining industry, he previously held the position of CEO of i-80 Gold Corp., President and CEO of Premier Gold Mines Ltd., and President and CEO of Wolfden Resources Inc. Throughout his career, Ewan has been a part of several major gold and base metal discoveries, earning recognition for his achievements, including being awarded the 2003 Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s “Bill Dennis Prospector of The Year.”

Michael W. Sutton, P.Geo., is a geologist bringing more than four decades of exploration and mine-production expertise across the Abitibi greenstone belt (Kirkland Lake, Timmins, and Malartic) and other world-class gold camps, including the Witwatersrand of South Africa. As Chief Geologist and Assistant Manager of Kirkland Lake Gold Inc. from 2001 to 2007, Mr. Sutton is credited with the discovery of the South Mine Complex—the high-grade gold system that revitalized the historic Macassa mine and helped establish Kirkland Lake Gold as one of the world’s premier high-grade gold producers. For that discovery he was awarded (alongside Stew Carmichael) the Ontario Prospectors Association’s “Prospector of the Year” award (2006).

He subsequently served as Vice President of Exploration of Vault Minerals Inc., which he guided to a takeover by Queenston Mining Inc., and as a director and head of exploration of Galway Resources Ltd., where he played a significant role in its approximately US$340 million acquisition by AUX. From 2014 to 2016, he was Senior Geologist at Canadian Malartic Corp. (operator of one of Canada’s largest gold mines) within the Abitibi region of Québec. Mr. Sutton serves as a director and Chief Geologist of Galway Metals Inc. and serves as a director of Rupert Resources Ltd., the company behind the district-scale Ikkari gold discovery in Finland (recently acquired by Agnico Eagle Mines Limited). Over his career he has worked for or consulted to leading producers and explorers including Osisko Mining, Kinross Gold, Barrick Gold, Queenston Mining, Lac Minerals, and Corona.

Mr. Sutton holds an Honours B.Sc. in Geology from the University of Toronto, is a member of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario, and has been a member of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada since 1982. He is a “Qualified Person” as defined under National Instrument 43-101. His deep Abitibi expertise is directly relevant to Nuvau’s district-scale exploration of the Matagami camp.