Mike Riddle
Mr. Riddle has over 40 years of experience in the construction industry providing consulting services in construction materials testing, geotechnical and environmental engineering services. He is a professional geologist and has served as project manager for several multi-million dollar industrial, commercial and government construction projects. After working for 16 years as branch manager for Geo-Hydro Engineers, Mr. Riddle, with a partner, started Baseline Engineers. After three years of strong growth, Baseline Engineers merged with Geo-Hydro Engineers resulting in a restructuring of the ownership group. Mr. Riddle has served on the board of directors for the last 21 years and is currently COO with Geo-Hydro Engineers.
Richard Lock
Mr. Lock, a mining engineer, has led the construction and development of several large mining projects around the world. He is currently the CEO with Oroco Resource Corporation. Previously he was senior vice-president of PolyMet Mining Corp. and Project Director for its NorthMet Project in Minnesota. Amongst his prior project experience, Mr. Lock has held executive and project director roles at Arizona Mining Inc.’s Hermosa project, a lead-zinc-silver mine in southern Arizona; Yara International’s Dallol project, a Sulphate of Potash mining project in Ethiopia; Western Potash Corporation’s Milestone project, a potash solution mining project in Canada, Rio Tinto’s Resolution and Keystone copper projects in Arizona and Utah, and CNRL’s Horizon oilsands project in Alberta