Ron Bilquist has had a passion for, and been committed to, mining exploration and prospecting for more than 52 years. He has worked extensively throughout Canada and its territories, as well as parts of Mexico and Argentina. He is familiar with a wide variety of geological models and concepts and has been involved with the planning and carrying out of many regional exploration programs from the grassroots level and upwards. In Canada, his prospecting has resulted in the discoveries, and co discoveries, of mineral occurrences that have generated many exploration and mining projects. He has been actively exploring north western Argentina since 1995 with a variety of companies and was a key member of the team that discovered the Lindero Gold project of Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. In 2003, with three associates, Mr. Bilquist was instrumental in introducing Cascadero Copper to the potential for successful mineral exploration and discovery in Argentina. Significant discoveries he has made, or has been directly involved with since 2003 include the Quevar Silver project, currently owned by Golden Minerals and numerous gold and porphyry copper-gold occurrences along the Taca Taca trend with some of these adjacent to First Quantum’s advanced phase Taca Taca Cu-Au-Mo Project. Mr. Bilquist, with his prospecting partner Les Allen, submitted the first rocks for analysis that came back highly anomalous in cesium and led to the discovery of Cascadero’s Taron Cesium project.
