David Keough

Mr. Keough is an experienced mining executive with over 35 years of practice in the mining industry including exploration, engineering, mine operations (Open Pit and Underground), corporate development, contracting, consulting, projects and construction. His extensive geographic and corporate mining experience ranges from: Latin America, North America, Europe, Africa and Asia Pacific. He has direct experience in a number of commodities including precious metals, base metals, mineral sands, and lithium and has held a number of executive director positions with both private and public companies in Australian and Canada, with broad experience serving on Board audit committees, sustainability committees and compensation committees.

During his 35-year career, Mr Keough worked for Placer Dome (Australia), Minera Alumbrera (Argentina), and spent 6 years with Goldcorp Inc in key corporate development, and operational roles in numerous countries before his appointment as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Crocodile Gold. He later served as Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer for Goldrock Inc, which successfully permitted for construction the Lindero gold project (Argentina) which was subsequently acquired by Fortuna Silver Mines Inc.

Mr. Keough holds a bachelor of science and post graduate diploma (Mineral Economics) from James Cook University (Queensland) and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of mining and metallurgy and is an accredited Chartered Professional (Management). He also holds open-pit mine manager’s certificates of competency (Western Australia).