About Us
White Pine Precious Metals, Inc., is a private mineral explorer formed and led by experienced mining and exploration executives with headquarters in Reno, Nevada, USA. The Company’s flagship property, the Taylor Project, is located outside of Ely, Nevada and was acquired in January 2023. During 2023, the Company’s development programs included surface sampling, assaying of historic RC chip samples, geophysics, modeling, and staking additional claims that resulted in an ~40 square mile district scale land position. The Company’s initial drill campaign is scheduled for mid-2024.
Our Vision
To be a respected mineral explorer that through its expertise creates value for our shareholders.
Our Mission
To create value for shareholders by safely and responsibly exploring for precious metals and creatively capitalizing on other opportunities and partnerships.
Safety
A vision where all incidents and work-related health risks are preventable, the “WPPM Way” is a risk managed, value-based approach where every person supports the WPPM safety culture and is actively engaged in a positive safety journey, fully understands and consistently applies critical controls, must say something if they see something, and will go home the same way they came to work.
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Meet the Team
Our Leadership
John Marma
Steve Spitze
Jeff Stieber
Sam Bourque
Robert Schafer
Richard Reid
Ben Hinkle
Bob Felder
Eric Seedorff
Richard Reid
Independent Director, is a senior geologist with over 40 years in the mining business, working for major mining companies, with a focus throughout Nevada. His roles with Newmont Mining Corporation, now Newmont Corporation, the largest producer of gold in the world, included Nevada District Exploration Manager, Exploration Business Development Manager and Chief Geologist for North America. Richard has extensive experience with Carlin type gold deposits and was involved with epithermal hosted gold deposits on the Carlin and Battle Mountain-Eureka Trend.
John Antwi
Chairman of the Board, is a mining executive with 32 years of experience. He founded Elim Mining Incorporated and acquired the Sacaton (Cactus) mine, which is now listed on the TSX (ASCU) and called Arizona Sonoran Copper Company. He has held executive roles overseeing growth initiatives, mergers, and acquisitions with multi-billion-dollar organizations in the United States and Canada. John is currently President and CEO of Bendito Resources Inc, a private base and precious metals company developing numerous projects in Mexico. Mr. Antwi has a bachelor’s degree in Geological Engineering from KNUST, Ghana, and a Master’s degree in Mineral Economics from Colorado School of Mines.
Anthony Bottrill
Anthony is Principal Geology Advisor, is a Principal Resource Geologist with 24 years of experience in the mining industry and experience across numerous countries and a range of commodities: from low tonnage high grade precious metals deposits to bulk tonnage base metals deposits. He provides resource modeling and technical services consulting skills for underground and open pit projects, from exploration through technical study phases, to production. Anthony was a founding member of Elim Mining Incorporated and undertook the initial due diligence and 3D geologic review of the historic Sacaton (Cactus) Mine in Arizona. The company was renamed to Arizona Sonoran Copper Company and listed on the TSX (ASCU) with the Cactus project as the flagship asset. Anthony is a founding member of Bendito Resources, a private base and precious metals company developing exploration assets in Sonora, Mexico. Anthony has held positions for various mining and resource services companies including Klondex, BHP Billiton, Newmont Australia, and Maptek. Mr Bottrill has a bachelor’s degree in Geology with Honours in Structural Geology from the University of Adelaide.
Ben Hinkle
Technical Advisor, has over 18 years’ experience as an Economic Geologist spanning three countries and four US states. He advanced from an Ore Control geologist to Project and Senior Geologist, Senior Exploration geologist and Chief geologist before moving into private consulting for the past several years. Mr. Hinkle has worked at the following mines: Deep Post (NV); Favona, Moonlight, UTA (New Zealand); Mt Charlotte, KCGM Super Pit (Australia); Fire Creek, Hollister/ Hatter (NV), in addition to 30+ deposits as a consultant. He has extensive 3D modeling experience in both Vulcan and Leapfrog, and a track record of developing, fostering, and mentoring high performance geology teams. Mr. Hinkle earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from Portland State University in 2004.
Sam Bourque
Chief Geologist, has over 19 years’ experience in mineral exploration and mining. Mr. Bourque has held a range of operational and consulting positions with Newmont, ASARCO, and a number of junior companies. Five years in underground gold and silver mines and 14+ years exploring for gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, cobalt and molybdenum has provided him with hands-on experience in a broad range of deposit types. Mr. Bourque has specific expertise in Carlin-type and epithermal systems, with four years of prior experience managing exploration work at the Taylor Project, including development of the unexplored gold targets. Sam earned a Bachelor of Science Degree with Honors from Northern Arizona University in 2003, and is recognized as a Certified Professional Geologist (#11775) by the American Institute of Professional Geologists.
Jeff Stieber
Chief Financial Officer, is an experienced finance and accounting executive within the mining industry having held roles at numerous publicly listed and private companies, during which time he provided financial leadership to formulate and achieve organizational strategies. Mr. Stieber has deep experience in both US GAAP and IFRS accounting and reporting standards, having led the accounting, finance, compliance and disclosure processes for both Canadian and US listed companies, including Bendito Resources, Hycroft Mining, Klondex, Tahoe Resources, and Allied Nevada. Mr. Stieber is a Certified Public Accountant and graduated from the University of Nevada with distinction.
Steve Spitze
Chief Operating Officer and Director, is a mining executive with over 35 years of multi-industry experience. He has held executive-level leadership positions and managed large-scale, complex operations in multiple industries, including military, aviation, construction and mining. He has over 15 years in the mining industry, and is experienced in exploration, mine development, mine construction and he managed all surface mining operations on the Carlin Trend for Newmont Mining Corporation.
In addition to his significant executive leadership experience, he also has proven safety and risk management expertise from years in the aviation, construction and mining industries. Notably, the mining operations he led at Newmont earned the National Mining Association’s Sentinels of Safety Award for Large Open Pit Operations two separate years (2015 and 2017).
Mr. Spitze also holds numerous licenses and degrees, including a law license (WSBA # 41101), a Juris Doctor, Cum Laude, from Seattle University School of Law, a Master’s Degree in Strategic Leadership from the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Nevada, Reno.
John Marma
President and Chief Executive Officer, is a professional geologist with over 20 years’ exploration, development, and production experience in Nevada, Alaska and South Africa. Mr. Marma most recently served as the Director of Exploration and Geology in Nevada for Hecla Mining responsible for exploration and geologic mine support at all Nevada based projects. Previous roles include senior positions focused on epithermal vein projects in the Northern Nevada Rift (NNR) and Carlin-type deposits with Klondex and Newmont and junior roles focused on orogenic gold (Barberton District, S.A.) and gold porphyry (Donlin Creek-Placer Dome). Mr. Marma was responsible for the discovery of the Eastern Veins and the Green Racer Sinter Vein at the Midas Mine. Mr. Marma holds a B.S. in Geoscience from North Dakota State University and a M.S. in Geology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He was also awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and studied at Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria. Mr. Marma is a registered professional geologist with the American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG) #11709 and is a long-time member of both the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) and the Geological Society of Nevada (GSN).
Robert Schafer
Robert W. Schafer is a Registered Professional Geologist with +40 years international experience exploring for mineral deposits and identifying, evaluating and structuring business transactions globally having worked in more than 80 countries on all continents. Mr. Schafer has led exploration teams evaluating early business opportunities in Russia (diamond and copper) and China (gold and copper) for BHP in 1992-1996. While Vice President, Exploration for Kinross Gold he was responsible for near mine and regional exploration planning at the Kubaka and Aginskoe projects in Far East Russia, including minesite reserve expansions and a + million ounce greenfield gold discovery at Birkachan. As Executive Vice President of the Hunter Dickinson Group, he led due diligence teams globally, including evaluations in Russia, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, India, Mongolia, Uzbekistan and many countries in Africa and South America. He is a Founding Director and Chairman of Amur Minerals Corp, who have been active in Far East Russia since 2004, focused on developing its world-class grassroots Ni-Cu discovery at Kun-Manie. In summary, as a field geologist, manager and executive, Mr. Schafer led teams to the grassroots discovery of mines in the western USA, Australia, Canada and Russia, as well as developing strategies that lead to brownfields discoveries in western Canada and southern Africa.
Mr. Schafer is an active member of several professional mining associations, including the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME – President 2020-2021), the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC – President 2015-2016), the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (CIM – President 2013-2014) and the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America (MMSA – President 2005-20066). He was a member of the Board of Governors for the US National Mining Hall of Fame and the Board of Directors of the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame. He is the first person to hold such leadership roles in both the USA and Canada.
Mr. Schafer is the recipient of the William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal from AIME, as well as the Daniel C. Jackling Award and Robert A. Dreyer Award from SME for technical achievements and leadership in the mining industry during his career. He is a Fellow of SME, CIM and SEG. He earned his BSc and MSc degrees in Geology and in Mineral Economics and completed studies toward a PhD in Economic Geology. In addition, he completed the Executive Management program at Stanford University. Mr. Schafer is a Certified Corporate Director (ICD.D) and a Registered Professional Geologist in the States of Wyoming and Utah. He is founder and CEO of Eagle Mines Management and is a member of the Board of Directors of select mining companies.
Bob Felder
Mr. Robert Felder is a retired exploration geologist/mining company executive following a successful 40-year career in the mining industry. Bob started on a technical track as an exploration geologist and advanced into management and executive roles through his career. He has been involved in the discovery and resource development of several projects in Nevada which have subsequently become mines, and through that experience has become very well versed in all aspects of mineral exploration and development, from early-stage generative exploration to resource and reserve definition. In addition, Bob gained significant later career experience leading junior companies, including financing activities, marketing, business development and deal structuring, having mostrecently led the merger of Renaissance Gold with Evrim Resources to create Orogen Royalties Inc. in 2020.
Bob currently serves as a consulting Technical Advisor for several companies, advising on a variety of issues from corporate strategy and business development to geology and exploration. Bob is active in the Nevada geologic community and currently serves on the Nevada Commission on Mineral Resources, as Chairman of the Geological Society of Nevada (GSN) Foundation and as a Vice President of the Nevada Section of The American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG).
Bob received a B.S. in Geology and Mineralogy and an M.S. in Geochemistry and Economic Geology from The Ohio State University, and is a Certified Professional Geologist (CPG) as recognized by AIPG.
Eric Seedorff
Eric Seedorff was raised in a mining family and earned degrees from the Univ of California, Davis (BS) and Stanford Univ (MS, PhD). He spent the first half of his career in industry. After summer and thesis-related jobs with Noranda, Anaconda, and Climax, he was an exploration geologist based in Reno for Chevron Resources and WestGold. Later he was Chief Mine Geologist at the Robinson project for Magma Copper Company based in Ely, Chief Geologist for Magma in Tucson, and finally Vice President Mineral Resources for BHP Copper in Tucson. Then he entered academia, serving as Lowell Chair in Economic Geology in the Dept of Geosciences, Univ of Arizona, from 2002 until retirement in 2021 (currently Emeritus). He was principal advisor to students who earned 31graduate degrees, and he still teaches in short courses for students and industry geologists. His interests include porphyry-related, Carlin-type, and epithermal deposits, regional geology of the Cordillera, extensional structure and tectonics, and organizational culture. Eric is past President of both the Geological Society of Nevada and the Arizona Geological Society.
Taylor Project
Located in Northern Nevada
Tier 1 jurisdiction Nevada ranked #1 in world in both the Investment Attractiveness and Policy Perception indexes
Located along the southern extension of the Carlin Trend in Nevada
Situated in White Pine County, 15 miles SE of town of Ely
Historical production
NI 43-101 compliant mineral resource statement
100% owned district scale land package, covering ~40 square miles
8 miles of known surface mineralization
~98% of land package royalty-free
Excellent growth potential with > 20 high priority undrilled targets identified
“Blue Sky” potential of +1M AuOz at numerous targets
Potential for multiple deposits, including porphyry
Critical mineral potential, including antimony (which was historically produced)
Existing power and permitted production water wells with water rights
Access on well-maintained road only 3 miles off Hwy 50
Investor Inquiries
To fund the next major Nevada discovery White Pine Metals routinely takes on external investment. Potential investors interested in learning more about our story, investment highlights, and financing plans are encouraged to request additional information. Additionally, members of management regularly attend industry conference in the U.S. and Canada and welcome opportunities to connect with new and existing shareholders and industry professionals.
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Contact Us
John Marma – President, CEO, & Director
775-397-2936
Jeff Stieber – Chief Financial Officer
775-250-0300
Contact Us
John Marma – President, CEO, & Director
775-397-2936
Jeff Stieber – Chief Financial Officer
775-250-0300