ManagementKeith Piggott - ACSM, Chairman, President, CEO & DirectorMr. Piggott initially made his name by developing innovative mining systems in the copper & cobalt mines of Zambia at Luanshya, and at Chibuluma, Chambishi and Kalengwa as Mine Superintendent. He then operated an exploration company in Australia and Papua New Guinea, identifying the gold cap of the Ok Tedi copper ore body, which was then dealt to BHP, which recovered two million ounces of gold in the first three years of production. Over the past 30 years, he has started and produced (mostly through companies that he has controlled) numerous gold/silver, tin, tungsten, rutile/zircon open pit and heap leach mines in Australia and Mexico utilizing innovative technology to maximize profits.
Cardero Resource Corp., headquartered in Vancouver, is a resource company with metallurgical coal and iron interests as well as precious metals projects.The company is focused on its flagship metallurgical coal deposit, Carbon Creek, located in northeast British Columbia. Carbon Creek's Pre-feasibility Study was published in late 2012, outlining a N.I. 43-101 resource estimate of 468Mt Measured & Indicated including a 121Mt initial Proven and Probable Reserve of metallurgical coal.Cardero's primary iron deposit is Sheini Hills iron deposit, located in northeast Ghana, which hosts an initial N.I. 43-101 inferred resource estimate of 1.3 billion tonnes grading 33.8% iron.In addition, Cardero holds interests in precious metals exploration properties in Argentina.Please read our Cautionary Notes to investors before proceedingStock Quote