Natural Resources >> CEO Interviews >> December 22, 2008
PETER BOJTOS, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Fischer-Watt
Gold Company, Inc., is a Professional Engineer with over 36 years of worldwide
experience in the mining industry. He has a strong background in corporate
management as well as in all facets of the industry from exploration through the
feasibility study stage to mine construction, operations and decommissioning.
Mr. Bojtos graduated from the University of Leicester, England, in 1972,
following which he worked at mines in West Africa, the United States and Canada.
Then for 12 years he worked in Toronto for Kerr Addison Mines Limited, a Noranda
Group company, in increasingly senior management and officer positions. From
1992 to 1993, Mr. Bojtos was the President and Chief Executive Officer of
Consolidated Nevada Goldfields Corporation, which operated precious metal mines
in the United States. From 1993 to 1995, he was Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of Greenstone Resources Limited, a company that was constructing gold
mines in Central America. Since 1996, Mr. Bojtos has been an independent
Director of several mining and exploration companies including Birim Goldfields
Inc., Desert Sun Mining Corp., Queenstake Resources Ltd., US Gold Corp.,
Vaaldiam Resources Ltd. and William Resources Inc. Over his career he has
visited and evaluated properties in about 80 countries and has been involved
with operations in about 30 of them. He has carried out 17 significant corporate
acquisitions, mergers or sales that involved 24 mines and he was the regional
exploration manager at Kerr Addison at the time of the staking and subsequent
discovery of what eventually became Inmet's Troilus gold-copper mine in Quebec.
Mr. Bojtos has participated in the development, building or reopening of 19
mines and has had a hand in the operation of 24 producing mines. Profile
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