Oct 1 2015
Integra Gold Corp. is pleased to announce the panel of judges who will preside over the Integra Gold Rush Challenge. The judging panel will use their experience, knowledge and skills to choose the best Gold Rush submissions.
The judges named to the panel are:
Neil Adshead: Ph.D. Geologist, Investment Strategist at Sprott Asset Management LP
Andrew Brown: M.Sc. Geologist, Chief Geologist- West Africa for B2Gold Corp
Benoît Dubé: Ph.D. Geologist, Senior Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada
James Franklin: Ph.D. Geologist, Geological Survey of Canada Chief Scientist (retired)
David Rhys: M.Sc. Geologist, Panterra Geoservices consulting geologist
Brian Skanderberg: M.Sc. Geologist, President and CEO of Claude Resources.
More detailed biographies of the judging panel can be found below.
George Salamis, Chairman of the Company notes, "Integra has assembled a phenomenal team of world-renowned judges from various geoscientific backgrounds representing mining research, academia, industry and finance. We are very grateful to the judges for accepting this challenge and look forward to their review of Gold Rush submissions." He further adds, "Given the unprecedented demand generated by the Gold Rush Challenge, the judges expect to receive an above average quality of innovative submissions to the Challenge."
The Gold Rush Challenge is an incentive prize challenge powered by the popular HeroX crowdsourcing platform. After registering for the Challenge, competitors from any background or location will be given access to an unprecedented database built from six terabytes and 75 years of historic mining and exploration data from Integra Gold's formerly producing Sigma/Lamaque mines in Val-d'Or, Québec. The individual or group whose submission represents the best prospect for the next big gold discovery on the Sigma/Lamaque properties, based on a weighted set of criteria as outlined in the Challenge rules, wins their share of the C$1 million prize.
WSP, the Geoscience Partner for the Challenge, will be responsible for reviewing all of the initial submissions and reducing the field to 20 semi-finalists which will then be presented to the judging panel. The panel will be responsible for determining the five finalists which will be asked to present their submissions to both the judges named above and a panel of industry veterans at a "Shark-Tank" style charity event during the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada ("PDAC") convention in Toronto in March 2016. The C$1,000,000 in prizes will be awarded during this event. Details regarding tickets to the event will be made available on the Company website in the near future with proceeds going towards a number of Val-d'Or charitable organizations.
Source: http://www.integragold.com/