Company Profile
Nortec Ventures Corp. is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, a well known center of mineral exploration companies and expertise. The Company was incorporated as a capital pool company in 2000 and began trading as a mineral exploration company in 2004 on the Toronto Venture Exchange under the symbol 'NVT'. The president, Mohan Vulimiri, is a very accomplished professional geologist who has been instrumental in the formation of the company and the acquisition and development of its mineral exploration projects.
The directors of the Company have a wide range of geological and mining expertise combined with business management and financial experience:
- Mohan Vulimiri and Peter Tegart, both professional geologists, have been involved together in numerous enterprises including the Lawyers Gold Mine in Northern B.C. and Frontier Pacific Mining Corporation. They have over sixty years combined worldwide experience in exploration for a wide scope of minerals and the development of mines.
- The other directors are: Ernest Peters, a long-time Vancouver-based explorationist; Grant Crooker, another very experienced professional geologist; Richard Richards, a chartered accountant with many years of business experience; and Etienne Walter, the Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Ecuador for the Provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, the Northwest Territories and the Yukon Territory.
- Victor Bradley is a Chartered Accountant with forty years experience in the minerals industry. Mr. Bradley has a very successful career in numerous large financings as well as taking junior public companies to a senior level. He is the founder and Lead Chairman of Yamana Gold Inc. (TSX:YRI), as well he was the founder of Aura Minerals Inc. (TSX:ORA), a Toronto-based mineral exploration Company. He is also the founder of Nevoro Inc.
The Company has one Gold-Silver precious metal property, two Nickel- Copper-Cobalt base metal properties and one PGE + Gold and Nickel+Copper Property:
- Precious Metals - The Kaukua Platinum - Palladium - Gold (PGE) & Nickel + Copper Property is located approx. 18 km South of the City of Posio and approx. 35 km West of Kuusamo City in Northeastern Finland. Two shallow drill programs consisting of a total of 2188 metres have been completed as of 22 April 2008 with very encouraging results to date. The Ganarin Gold-Silver project is located in southern Ecuador close to IAMGOLD Corporation's 3.4 million ounce gold resource Quimsacocha property. A 1614 metre diamond drill program was completed late November 2006 on the Ganarin Property.
- Base Metals - The TL Property (Nickel-Copper-Cobalt) in Labrador is near CVRD's, (Formerly INCO) Voisey's Bay Nickel Mine; very significant results were obtained from a 2005 drill hole by the Company. The Kingurutik Property (Nickel-Copper-Cobalt) is in Labrador as well, approximately 90 km Northwest of CVRD's Voisey's Bay Mine.