Bradford Cooke is a professional Geologist with 34 years experience in the mining industry, specializing in the financing, acquisition, exploration and development of mineral deposits. He earned a B.Sc. geology degree (honours) at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, in 1976, and an M.Sc. geology degree at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, in 1984. From 1976 to 1982, he worked as a Project Geologist managing mineral exploration programs for uranium, base metals and precious metals across Canada with Noranda Mines, Shell Minerals and Chevron Minerals. Between 1983 and 1987, Mr. Cooke owned and operated Cooke Geological Consultants Ltd., discovering several high-grade gold vein deposits for clients in British Columbia. In 1988, Mr. Cooke launched Canarc Resource Corp., a junior gold exploration and mining company focused on exploring and developing prospective gold properties throughout North, Central and South America. Canarc successfully delineated a one-million-oz. gold resource at its core asset, the New Polaris project in BC, and is currently focused on developing New Polaris into western Canada’s next high-grade gold mine. In 2003, Mr. Cooke formed Endeavour Silver Corp. for the purpose of acquiring advanced high-grade silver-gold projects in Mexico. Within six months of acquiring the Guanacevi Mines project in Durango, Endeavour discovered and developed into production the new high-grade Porvenir silver mine. Today, Endeavour is one of the fastest-growing primary producers of silver worldwide. Mr. Cooke has successfully raised more than CA$250 million in equity and joint-venture financings for resource projects since 1988. He is also involved in several grassroots gold discoveries over the past 25 years and has published several geological/geochemical papers in leading technical journals. A good-standing member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia, The Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada and the Association of Mineral Exploration in BC, Mr. Cooke is also a Fellow of the Geological Association of Canada.
