
Michael Dufresne MSc, P.Geol., P.Geo.
President and Principal
Mr. Dufresne is the President of APEX Geoscience Ltd. as well as a principal and a co-founder of the company. Mr. Dufresne received his B.Sc. in Geology from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 1983 and his M.Sc. in Economic Geology from the University of Alberta in 1987. He is a registered Professional Geologist (P.Geol.) with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) since 1989. He has worked as a consulting geologist for over 30 years conducting and directing exploration programs for junior and major exploration companies and mining companies. The breadth of his work has encompassed a variety of commodities and deposit types including diamond, gold (placer and lode), base metal, uranium and industrial minerals in Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon, Nunavut, Quebec, the Northwest Territories (NWT) and internationally. Mr. Dufresne has authored numerous Technical Reports and a number of Valuation Reports for public companies for early to advanced exploration stage projects including resource work for a variety of commodities and deposit types. He has additionally published extensively on the mineral potential of Alberta, as well as the Yukon and Northwest Territories and was first author of "Diamond Potential of Alberta" Alberta Geological Survey Bulletin 63. Mr. Dufresne was personally involved with and part of the exploration teams responsible for the discovery of the George Lake – Goose Lake gold deposits, Nunavut, the Three Bluffs gold deposit, Nunavut, and the Perseverance gold deposit, in the Coolgardie area of Western Australia.
Since 2012, Mr. Dufresne has become extensively involved in a number of USA based projects in Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Montana and California. For these he has conducted numerous property visits, completed property evaluations, designed and executed dozens of exploration programs, completed mineral resource estimates and NI 43-101 Technical Reports. Mr. Dufresne has been involved in numerous assessments of a number of Nevada based Carlin and volcanic hosted gold deposits and projects including but not limited to Railroad, North Bullion, Pinion, Dark Star, Pony, Mineral Ridge, Pan, Gold Rock, Battle Mountain, Northumberland, Iceberg, Manhatten, Camp Douglas, East Bailey, Reward, Mt Hamilton, Bolo, Kinsley Mountain etc.
Services Provided
- Exploration targeting via geological mapping, sampling, data interpretation
- Qualified reporting
- Project and exploration management: grassroots to mine feasibility and small open pit productions
- Senior Technical, Resource and Valuation Oversight and Reporting
- External and internal project reviews
- Database due diligence of databases
- Geological and resource estimation modelling and reporting
- Technical Reporting (JORC, NI 43-101)
- Personnel recruitment
- Business development
Deposit Styles
- Orogenic Gold Deposits (Archean terranes – Western Australia, Canada)
- Gold and Nickel Greenstone Belt Hosted Deposits (Western Australia, Canada)
- Sediment Hosted Bulk Tonnage Gold Deposits – Clastic and Carlin Type (Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, Utah, California, British Columbia)
- Volcanic Hosted Epithermal Vein and Low Grade Bulk Tonnage Precious
- Metal Deposits (Western US and Canada; Peru)
- Polymetallic Skarn Deposits
- Placer Gold Deposits
- Mesothermal Polymetallic Vein Gold-Silver Deposits
- Copper and Copper-Gold Porphyry Deposits (Western Canada, US, Peru and Chile)
- VMS Base Metal and Precious – Base Metal Deposits
- Kimberlite Diamond Deposits (Western Australian and Northern Canada)
- Vein type and sediment hosted Uranium Deposits (Athabasca Basin and Nunavut)
- Iron Ore, Intrusive and iron Formation styles iron deposits
- Polymetallic Sediment Hosted and Black Shale Hosted Deposits
- Potash Deposits
Publications
- Chester Property, Canadian Copper
- Pan Gold Project, Fiore Gold Ltd.
- South Railroad Project, Gold Standard Ventures Corp.
- Gold Rock Project, Fiore Gold Ltd.
- Tower Gold Project, Moneta Gold Inc.
- Converse Property, Converse Resources LLC.
- Lemhi Gold Project, Freeman Gold Corp.
- Lewis Project, Gold Standard Ventures Corp.
- North Bullion and Railroad Project, Gold Standard Ventures Corp.
- Gold Rock Project, Fiore Gold Ltd.
- White Rock Property, Provenance Gold Corp.
- North Queensland Vanadium Project, Currie Rose Resources Inc.
- Chester Property, Melius Metals Corp.
- Turgeon Property, Melius Capital 3 Corp.
- Diamond Potential in Alberta
- Pony Creek Project, Contact Gold Corp.
- Bayhorse Silver Deposit, Bayhorse Silver Inc.
- Tower Gold Project, Moneta Gold Inc.
- Dark Star Deposit, Gold Standard Ventures Corp.
- Buckton South Zone, SBH Property, DNI Metals Inc.
- Fox Creek Property, Channel Resources Ltd.
- Tuktu Iron Prospect, Advanced Explorations Inc.
- Alberta Potash Project, Grizzly Discoveries Inc.
- Swan Hills Property, Headwater Mineral Exploration and Development Ltd.
- Swan Hills Property, Headwater Minerals Exploration and Development Inc.
- Greenwood Gold Project, Grizzly Discoveries
- Railroad and Pinion Projects, Gold Standard Ventures Corp.
- Sturgeon Lake Sub-Property, MGX Minerals Inc.
- Orogrande Gold Project, Altiplano Minerals Ltd.
- Railroad-Pinion Project, Gold Standard Ventures Corp.
- Railroad-Pinion Project, Gold Standard Ventures Corp.
- Rosario De Belen Project, VI Mining
- Maria Luisa and Farellon Projects, Altiplano Minerals Ltd.
- Fox Creek Lithium-Brine and Metals Project, Empire Metals Corp.
- Mojave Gold Project, K2 Gold
- Grayson and Powerline Properties, Intermont Resources LLC.
- Diamond Syndicate Property, Western Australia Diamond Syndicate
- Cracker Creek Property, Lode Metals Corp.
- Cold Springs Property, Supernova Metals Corp.
- Huilacollo Project, Tier One Silver Inc.
- Pine Grove Property, Emperor Metals Inc.
- Buckton Deposit, SBH Property, DNI Metals Inc.
- Farellon Project, Altiplano Minerals
- Dark Star Project, Gold Standard Ventures Corp.
- Pinion Project, Gold Standard Ventures Corp.
- Chu Chua Property, Newport Exploration Ltd.
- Wild Rose – Tam O’Shanter Property, Golden Dawn Minerals Inc.
- Buckton Zone, SBH Property, DNI Metals Inc.
- Angilak Property, Kivalliq Energy Corp.
- Angilak Project, Kivalliq Energy Corp.
- Labiche formation, Buckton Zone, SBH Property, DNI Metals Inc.
- Valleyview Property, Lithium Exploration Group Inc.
- Buckton Mineralized Zone, SBH Property, DNI Metals Inc.
- Angilak Property, ValOre Metals Corp.
- Buckton Mineralized Zone, SBH Property, DNI Metals Inc.