Principals

  Paul Hammergren
Phil cand (MSc) in Geology, President and Partner
Paul has more than 35 years of experience in exploration and management. His specialities are Economic geology and exploration for industrial minerals and gold and base metals. He has a detailed geological knowledge of the Bergslagen Ore Province in central Sweden. His Business and corporate finance contacts are excellent, and he is Chairman of the Board in Svenska Kaolin AB, CEO for Northfield Exploration AB, Pajeb Kvarts AB and St 1 Biofuel Sweden AB. He has earlier worked as CEO in different stock listed companies as Tricorona AB and Riddarhyttan Resources AB. Paul is Qualified Person according to the Swedish Association of Mines, Minerals and Metal producers.
  Lars-Åke Claesson
Phil lic (PhD) in Geology, vice President and Partner.
Lars-Åke has more than 30 years of experience in exploration and management. His specialities are Management of projects and small companies, bedrock geology, exploration for gold, base metals and industrial minerals. He has a detailed knowledge of the Skellefte Ore Province and parts of Norrbotten, Västernorrland and Hälsingland (counties in northern Sweden). Environmental impact studies, applications due to the Mineral Act. He is Sales agent for Crown Point Ventures (Canada), director of the board in Mirab Mineral Resurser AB and Pajeb Kvarts AB, CEO of Arctic Gold AB. Lars-Åke is European Geologist and Qualified Person and according to the Swedish Association of Mines, Minerals and Metal producers.
 

Peter Åkerström
MSc Business Administration – Consultant Financial Management
Peter has more than 30 years experience working in the mining and exploration industry, mainly in the field of Finance Management. For 25 years Peter worked in various functions for the Boliden group, notably as Commercial Controller in Stockholm and London, as well as Finance Manager for Saudi Company for Precious Metals in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and as Corporate Controller at Boliden Apirsa S.L. In Seville, Spain. During two years he also worked as Finance Manager for Midroc Lega Dembi Gold Mine S.C. In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. After his return to Sweden in 2000 he has successfully held positions as Finance Manager for Tricorona AB and St1 Sweden AB. Over the years he has developed and refined his understanding of the financial mechanisms of major mining and exploration companies and acquired extensive knowledge of all aspects of the industry.

  Matz Jönsson Forssell
Phil mag (MSc) in Geology, Environmental- and Exploration Geologist.
Matz has 10 years experience in exploration and work with environmental subjects. For 4 years he worked with environmental objectives both at the County Administrative Board Authority and as environmental consultant. He has 5 years experience as Exploration Geologist in gold-, uranium- and iron ore exploration. For about one year he worked as geochemist at the Geological Survey of Sweden and he is also skilled in Environmental impact studies and applications according to the Environmental Laws and the Mineral Act.
  Bengt Nilsson
Phil cand (MSc) in Geology, Senior Geochemist.
Bengt has 35 years experience of mineral exploration. His specialities are geochemical exploration and quarternary geology. Bengt has been involved in investigation works for the Swedish Nuclear Waste Programme concerning geochemical till exploration. Furthermore in exploration works for the Canadian companies Redmond Ventures, Lac Minerals, Barrick Gold, Daler Mining and Brandon Gold Corp and the Australian companies Equinox Resources and Lake Resources. Bengt has been Exploration Geochemist at SGAB working with "Evaluation of the regional till sampling program" for producing a Swedish Geochemical Atlas covering most part of Sweden. He was also involved in heavy mineral program of stream sediments and till panning in the Kalmar County, Southern Sweden. He has been Exploration Geochemist at the Geological Survey of Sweden. The sampling media comprised heavy minerals from till, organic stream sediments and peat in bogs, laboratory work with emphasis on mineral seperation in heavy liquids and electromagnetic seperator, mineral identifying in heavy mineral fractions by binocular microscope, UV-light, microprobe analysis and X-ray diffraction. Bengt is also a Qualified Person according to the Swedish Association of Mines, Minerals and Metal producers.