Brian Alers
Independent Professional Geologist                      

Brian Alers is an independent consulting geologist who specializes in cost-effective evaluations of early development stage gold, silver, telluride, copper, zinc, uranium and rare earth element bearing mining properties. Services include all aspects of project planning, permitting and management of grass-roots through mine feasibility stage exploration projects.  

Brian Alers is a Qualified Person as defined by Canadian Securities Administrators National Instrument 43-101 (NI-43-101) standards to prepare detailed NI 43-101 technical reports including: 3-D computer geologic resource/reserve modeling (using ACAD, Vulcan, or MapInfo), geochemical data interpretation, geologic mapping, sample collection, digital deposit modeling, database management, economic assessment, environmental impact, drill program design and suggestions for future exploration. In addition to the preparation of detailed NI 43-101 technical reports, Brian Alers also offers a less expensive Project Evaluation Report that is designed to organize all the previous work into one coherent report and provide a meaningful cost estimate for a full blown NI 43-101 compliant report.

Brian Alers has over 30 years of hands-on experience in every aspect of the modern minerals exploration business. He has survived the ups and downs of the industry through honesty, integrity and a passion for solving complex geological problems. The art of discovery is elusive by nature and rooted in happenstance. Over the years, Brian Alers has developed the unique observational skills, abstract thinking, and independent judgment needed to see what everybody has seen, but think what nobody else has thought. The secrets of the earth will not reveal themselves to the casual observer, they are only revealed through many years of experience on the outcrop.  Nothing can substitute for boots-on-the-ground field experience and the thought that goes into creating hand-drawn geologic maps and sections. Computer models are only as good as the geologic data that goes into them, and the successful integration of sound geologic observations into the digital database is critical.

Since 2010, Brian Alers has authored 2 NI 43-101 technical reports on the Endeavour Gold Project in NW British Colombia, Notices of Operation, Plans of Operation and Reclamation Permit Applications for the Tonopah Airport Mill, Georgia Tailings Reclamation Project, and Tybo Tailings Reclamation Project in Nevada for Solauro Industries Inc.  As the principle geologist for a early development stage underground gold and silver vein mine at the Bates Hunter mine in Central City, Colorado, from 2005 until closure in 2009, Brian Alers wrote the underground exploration permit, 2 exploration core-drilling permits, stormwater management plan/permit and all water permits including the water discharge monitoring report (DMR).  He assisted in writing the NI43-101 technical report, mapped and sampled the surface and underground workings, designed multiple directional core drilling programs in 3-dimensional space taking into consideration considerable amounts of drill hole deflection, sampled and organized all the drill hole geochemical data. The valuable experience gave him unique insights into the importance of vein textures and the interpretation of complex vein relationships in 3-dimensions. As the project geologist at the Cross mine in Caribou, Colorado for Echo Bay Exploration in 1995 Brian Alers gained a feel for gold mineralization associated with the porphyry to epithermal transition environment and drill program design. While working for American Copper and Nickel Co. (INCO) from 1986-1995; he spent 5 years mapping Proterozoic Cu-Zn (Au) Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide deposits in Arizona and Colorado and gained a real appreciation for ductile deformational features, metamorphosed submarine hydrothermal alteration and lithogeochemical sampling. He also became very familiar with the strong structural controls and subtle, silica-poor oxidized alteration patterns associated with Cripple Creek Type alkalic gold-telluride deposits, IOCG, and Rare Earth Element bearing porphyries deposits in the Lincoln County porphyry belt of New Mexico, the Bear Lodge Mountains and Rattlesnake Hills of Wyoming.  From 1980-1985 Brian Alers worked at Summitville Colorado, for Anaconda Minerals and the Northern Amethyst Project in Colorado, the South Mercur mine in Utah, and many gold prospects in northern Nevada for Homestake Mining Co.

Client List:

Solauro Industries Inc., (2010-present), Consulting Geologist
Author and Qualified Person for two NI 43-101 technical reports on Endeavour Gold Project, NW BC
Authored Exploration, Notice of Operation and Reclamation Permits for Georgia and Tybo Minje Dump Removal and Reclamation Projects, NV
Authored Mill Plan of Operations and Reclamation Permit for the Tonopah Airport Mill in Tonopah, Nv
Authored numerous detailed geologic project evaluation reports and mine dump evaluation reports in NV and CA

Standard Gold Inc., (2009) Consulting Geologist
Authored geologic evaluation reports, including site visits, on various detachment-related Au properties in southwestern AZ.

Wits Basin Precious Metals Inc., (2005-2009), Project Geologist, Bates Hunter Mine, Central City CO
Responsible for all surface and underground geologic mapping, core-logging, drill program design and supervision, assisted on NI 43-101 technical report writing, supervised 3-D computer generated resource/reserve estimates, supervised 3-D computer projections of vein intersections, deposit modeling, exploration, mine and water treatment permits.

Consolidated Global Minerals Inc., (2005), Consulting Geologist, Cash Mine, Gold Hill CO
Responsible for underground and surface geologic mapping, supervision of ore control sampling, core logging 

Celtic Minerals (2002-2003), Consulting Geologist, Dawson Gold Project, Canon City, CO
Responsible for arrangement of property tours, data-base assembly, and project evaluation report.

RMCS Surveying, (1995-2001), Principle Geologist and Surveyor

Responsible for geochemical/geophysical grid design, geochemical sampling, claim staking, and land research for a variety on clients.

Land Survey Party Chief, responsible for boundary, topographic, ALTA, ILC, site plan review, subdivision plats, description and exhibit maps.

Echo Bay Exploration, (1995-1997), Exploration Geologist

Responsible for property evaluations at Buffalo Valley and North Fortitude mines, NV. 

Project Geologist, Cross Mine, Caribou CO, responsible for underground and surface mapping, core logging, Vulcan 3-D computer modeling, drill program design and supervision.

BHP Minerals, (1996), Exploration Geologist

Responsible for property evaluation of Cinderella, CO, Proterozoic Cu-Zn Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide property.

American Copper and Nickel Co. (INCO), (1988-1995), Geologic Field Crew Supervisor

Responsible  for Proterozoic Cu-Zn (Au) Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide, Tertiary Alkalic Au and Rare Earth Element resource districts in NM, CO, WY, and AZ, including surface geologic mapping, drill program design and supervision, lithogeochemical sampling, database management and evaluation reports.

 
American Gold Resources, (1985-88), Project Geologist

Responsible for geologic mapping, evaluation report writing. RCD drill program design and supervision at Marietta Project, Walker Lane NV.

Homestake Mining Co., (1980-81, 1985), Mine Geologist, North Amethyst mine, Creede, CO and Field Geologist in NV, CA and UT. 

Responsible for underground mapping and sampling in active underground mine.

Field Geologist for reconnaissance scale mapping, sampling, and evaluation report writing on Hg-hot spring and sediment hosted (Carlin-type) deposits.

Anaconda Minerals Inc., (1982), Geologist, Summitville, CO
Responsible for RCD and core drill rig supervision, sampling, core and chip logging