Quasar Gold Corp
Based in Fort Collins, Colorado, the Company has a concentrated focus on placer ("plasser") gold mining in central Alaska. Quasar has assembled 3 teams of experienced professionals: A management team, an exploration / evaluation team and a production team. Gold production is our business and we have a deep understanding of the economics of gold (See MINING).
The Company plans to accumulate a holding of 5-8 productive properties totaling 15-20,000 acres and intends to expand on our holdings by setting up multiple mining operations and multiple wash plants on each acquired property. This represents both horizontal and vertical growth with an emphasis on production.
A perfect storm exists currently with gold enjoying an all-time high value and underdeveloped mineral-rich properties available for purchase are in unprecedented abundance. Quasar is ready to strike like lightening to acquire and exploit holdings of State of Alaska, unpatented mining claims and has begun a one-time funding round for this and other purposes (See INVESTORS).
The Company's flagship mining property, The Shirley Bar Mine, located, in the Eureka Mining District in central Alaska is a well-known placer gold mine with a 120-plus year history of reliable gold and mineral production. The Company owns the 69 mining claims on the 2,300 acre property and is ready for mining production to commence in the 2024 season. The Shirley Bar is a bench placer on high ground between Rhode Island and Glen Creeks with a plentiful water supply drawn from five creeks (an abundant water supply is essential for placer mining - See GEOLOGY).
A second mining property was meticulously researched by our exploration / evaluation team during the 2023 season. "Economic gold" in high purity was found in abundance and Property # 2 will be purchased near term. The Company has 3 additional properties under consideration for purchase.
Each mining operation has the potential to create income for the Company from produced gold, either from:
The Company’s founder, Mr. Dana Geyer, is a distinguished CPA and entrepreneur who has decades of experience in multiple industries including mineral production, gas and oil exploration and real estate development. His skills and expertise include creating and executing a corporate vision, acquiring talent, managing multiple operational teams, mining operation compliance, government agency reporting and licensing requirements and tax advantaged strategies.
Mr. Geyer has thrived in the minerals industry since 1989 and has structured more than a dozen profitable mineral projects. In addition to 32 years of experience in mineral production,. Mr. Geyer has 5 years of placer mining experience in Alaska.
Mr. Geyer has been a member of the American Institute of CPAs and the Colorado Society of CPAs for decades. License # 0005873 since 1976. Mr. Geyer is a U.S. Navy veteran and served in the Vietnam conflict as a quartermaster (navigator).
As Chief Information Officer and Corporate Secretary, Neil Skinn manages the company’s communications and helps plan the Company's business strategy. He’s a professional problem-solver and has become adept at accomplishing the impossible. He's an electro-mechanical engineer by trade whose won numerous awards for his achievements. In November of 2012, he was inducted into the Museum of Science and Discovery by the City of Fort Collins, Colorado as a “top innovator.”
Neil Skinn is the genius engineer / entrepreneur who invented and marketed the world’s first system to automatically tune electric guitars through his company, TransPerformance. Starting in 1989, his first client was legendary guitarist Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin fame who prominently acknowledges Mr. Skinn in both of his recent books. In “Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page” published in 2014, Page chronicles his musical career through photographs and features several photos of himself playing and posing with his TransPerformance guitars. In 2020, Page released another book titled “Jimmy Page Anthology” where he mentions how he met Mr. Skinn and acknowledges Mr. Skinn’s contribution to his music.
Mr. Skinn’s other rock star clients include the who’s who of virtuoso guitarists, including Pete Townshend of The Who, the late Eddie Van Halen, Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Peter Frampton, Graham Nash, Mick Fleetwood, Pat Metheny, Nile Rodgers, Rick Springfield and many more. In 1993, TransPerformance won the Discovery Award for Technical Innovation in Audio Engineering while Mr. Skinn was included in the Top 100 most important people in the music industry by Guitar Magazine.
Mr. Skinn brings this same world-class problem-solving ability, his creativity, organizing power and engineering excellence to Quasar Gold Corp. He also brings pure luck.
When he joined Quasar Gold Corp in 2020, it seemed obvious that the Company needed to have a presence in central Alaska, close to the mining property. Considering that Alaska's land mass is greater than that of Texas, California and Montana COMBINED, it is truly mind-bending to realize that Mr. Skinn’s cousin, Mr. Chip Stockton (see PERSONNEL section), possessing a perfect complement of skills, equipment and experience lives only 20 miles from the mine. This represents a nearly incomprehensible amount of good fortune and is a great omen for Quasar’s success.
Mr. Skinn served six years in the U.S. Navy as a SONAR technician and has studied mathematics, physics and electrical engineering at both Mesa College in Grand Junction, Colorado and at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Nathaniel Levin is Quasar’s Vice President of Investor Relations currently focused on capital development. He has a comprehensive understanding of Quasar Gold Corp's business activities and is ready to accommodate investors with the answers and attention they need and deserve.
He’s worked with Quasar's CIO, Neil Skinn since 2005 on various projects relating to Mr. Skinn’s self-tuning guitar company (TransPerformance and AxCent Tuning Systems) including a successful capital raise in 2008. Mr. Levin has also raised money for a business to government (B2G) software company and for an exoticar sales company's inventory acquisition (for vintage Italian marques including Ferrari, Maserati and Lamborghini), In that role, he became comfortable with providing the quick, straightforward response that investors expect when questions or concerns arise.
Mr. Levin graduated from MIU in Fairfield, Iowa in 1996 with a degree in Math, Physics and Engineering with a specialization in CAD. He lives with his family in Florida but is never more than a text message, an email or a phone call away.
Born in Alaska before it became a state, Greg Neubauer is a third generation miner following in his father’s footsteps. Mr. Neubauer learned to operate mining equipment at an early age and has also worked in general construction, building roads and airports throughout Alaska.
Over the years Greg and his father mined in Nome, the Seward Peninsula and the Ophir region. In 1965 they purchased the Tofty Mine, a placer mine near Manley Hot Springs, and together they spent 40 years mining the Tofty. Greg is familiar with the Shirley Bar since the Tofty is located 10 to 12 miles “as the crow flies” from the Shirley Bar. Greg understands that the gold on both properties comes out of the same mountain and both mines are on the same pay streak.
Greg learned many deep lessons from his father and the old-timers and watched the industry change; equipment got bigger and sluice boxes got more technical. His winter months were spent reading and learning from fellow miners and when springtime came; new ideas were tested by trial and error.
Greg has hands-on experience in every phase of placer mining from exploration to opening cuts, managing water and reclamation and tweaking wash plants and sluices. He understands the importance of exploration and the need to have a four to five year reserve out in front. Having Greg onboard adds a critical edge in experience to the Quasar team.
Dr. Fritz Foss has collaborated previously with Neil Skinn on various engineering projects related to Mr. Skinn’s guitar tuning company and will assist the Company in the analysis and evaluation of prospective mining properties being considered for acquisition by the Company.
Dr. Foss has worked in various capacities in the oil and gas exploration business for over 23 years including 14 years of experience in processing (or oversight thereof) onshore /offshore 2D / 3D seismic data and/or consulting for Shell Oil Company, PetroCorp, Inc., Apache Corporation and most recently holding a joint research scientist /geophysical technology manager position with Terralliance Technologies, Inc. prior to directing his own company, Unified GeoSystems.
Dr. Foss holds a B.S. in Geophysical Engineering (1985) from Colorado School of Mines, his M.S. in Applied Mathematics (1995) and a Ph.D. in Mathematics (2006) from University of Houston.
His applied geophysical research interests and expertise lie in the areas of applied seismic data analysis and integration including signal processing and time series analysis, seismic imaging and inversion and nonlinear seismic phenomena. His applied mathematical interests and expertise lie in the areas of numerical solution of optimal control problems, linear / nonlinear eigen problems and linear / nonlinear programming / estimation problems arising in wave propagation, elasto-statics /dynamics and traditional / behavioral economics / finance. He has authored and coauthored several scholarly works in many of these areas.
Dr. Foss is a member of DGS, SEG, EAGE and SIAM and resides with his family in Longmont, Colorado.
The Company has a contractual working relationship with renowned economic geologist Jeffrey Keener. Mr. Keener is recognized as one of the foremost experts in mineral geology in central Alaska and has a unique understanding of the Shirley Bar Mine resulting from exploration services provided to prior owners of the property.
Mr. Keener is a member of the American Institute of Professional Geologists (MEM # 0777); he’s a member of the Alaska Miners Association and was the Governor’s appointment to the Alaska Minerals Commission in 2018-2019. He has an extensive work history in the field of geology beginning in 1987.
Mr. Keener possesses key technical experience relevant to Quasar’s activities. He is trained in geological field and laboratory methods; skilled in interpretation of air photographs and satellite imagery and is skilled in operating and maintaining a variety of heavy equipment. He’s logged stratigraphic columns and collected geologic samples with sonic, normal circulation rotary, reverse-circulation rotary, diamond-core and auger drill units; processed placer and stream sediment samples with pans, heavy liquids, Gemini, Wilfley and Deister tables and a variety of small and large hydraulic concentrators. He’s performed professional economic valuations of over 25 mineral deposits; prepared numerous proprietary geologic reports, maps and feasibility studies pertaining to mineral exploration and ore beneficiation; supervised numerous staking, exploration and mining programs across Alaska, the southwest USA, Chile, Tanzania and Colombia. He’s experienced in land status research, mine permitting, licensing and marketing mineral properties in the United States. He’s negotiated mining agreements with Alaska Native corporations and the Alaska Mental Health Land Trust, as well as a number of public and private landowners and is knowledgeable of the United States federal and state mining laws and regulations.
Mr. Keener’s knowledge, skills and experience, coupled with the latest scientific methods and instruments will help us explore potential properties and prove that economically viable concentrations of gold are present before purchasing leases or moving equipment or soil.
Mr. Keener earned a Bachelor of Science in Geology at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks in 1991 and completed an internship with the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Survey in 1986 and 1987. Mr. Keener served as a radioman in the U.S. Coast Guard and was honorably discharged in 1982.
References for Mr. Keener are available upon request.
The Company is incredibly fortunate to have a close relative of one of its officers living in Manley Hot Springs, just 20 miles from the Shirley Bar Mine. Chip Stockton moved to Manley Hot Springs in 1984 and started several businesses supporting miners in central Alaska. He has extensive knowledge of the mines, their owners and the history of the mining properties in central Alaska as a result of providing support services including sand, gravel, excavation, water delivery and large vehicle maintenance.
The Company’s relationship with Mr. Stockton has been a tremendous plus. He provides housing and transportation when needed, keeps eyes on the properties from his bush plane, handles seasonal tasks that would normally require trips up to Alaska from Colorado and continues to make important introductions to key service providers. Having this level of support from a close family member within mere miles of the mine is a major plus that most mine owners can only dream of. We sleep well knowing that year-round, there are eyes on the property and help is always just a phone call away.
