MANAGEMENT
President, Director
JAMES O. BURGAUER,
MBA (USA)
Mr. James O. Burgauer is a seasoned entrepreneur with a proven track record.
While still a business student at the University of Illinois, from which he graduated Summa Cum Laude in just five semesters, Mr. Burgauer and associates founded a mutual fund, an investment advisor, a broker-dealer and a transfer agent. Upon graduation, he then began his professional career in the financial services sector with the firm of Shearson American Express.
Bitten by the computer bug as he personally wrote all of the software required to run the mutual fund and transfer agent, he decided to buy a software company in the early 1980’s. This firm soon became the world’s leader in diagnostic software, embedding their products into the operating systems used by virtually every major computer company existing at that time.
After publishing his first investment book in 1987, Mr. Burgauer sold his software company and returned full-time to the securities industry. He founded AISCO Holdings, Ltd. and its many subsidiaries, including two more brokerage firms and a commodity firm. He served that conglomerate as its Chief Executive Officer and its Chairman of the Board of Directors. During his tenure, he held, among others, Series Licenses 3, 4, 5, 7, 24, 27, 53 and 63. Around this same time he was also commissioned by some major Wall Street wirehouses to write his second book; which they then gave out by the thousands as a promotional gifts to their best clients.
As the firm’s primary SEC Licensed Principal, he grew AISCO Holdings into a financial services conglomerate — managing over $700 million in assets and employing approximately 300 licensed personnel. By March of 2000, Mr. Burgauer merged his firm into a public entity, and semi-retired to the life-style of a consultant.
Within a few years Mr. Burgauer began dealing in the commodity markets again — but this time he focused on the purchase and sale of physical commodities rather than the paper trading of them.
As a result of his multi-faceted career, Mr. Burgauer has established a multitude of strategic alliances and partnerships with individuals and entities over the years. As such, MINERALRITE now enjoys the benefits of having a seasoned, multi-talented, proven manager at its helm, who has contacts and specialized knowledge in the securities industry and in the physical purchase, sales, delivery and processing of commodities including precious, semi-precious and base metals.
ADVISORY BOARD
1527155 Alberta Ltd. (“Alberta Ltd.”)
Mr. Todd Gibson,
Project Management; EPC, Commissioning, Startup; Operations
1527155 Alberta Ltd. (“Alberta Ltd”) is a privately held and operated consulting company providing service-based collaboration on Electric, Nuclear, Hydrogen, Water, CTT, Mining, and O&G projects headed by Mr. Todd Gibson. Mr. Todd R. Gibson has, over the past 26 years, provided planning, commissioning, construction, startup, operational and maintenance consultancy services to the oil, gas, power, and technology development industries. Mr. Gibson served as a Senior Project Leader at the Kearl Lake-IOL/ EXXON project, a “first time” installation of new industrial designs, which when introduced, was listed as the third largest construction project in the world, having an estimated budget exceeding $30 billion dollars.
Alberta Ltd.’s consortium of principals, staff and consultants bring to bear extensive technical expertise in the deployment and large scale build-outs of monolithic, technically complex industrial plants – ranging from then-standard industry technology, to lead-in deployments of new emerging systems. Alberta Ltd’s consortium has held management and executive level positions, or provided their expertise as outside consultants, in the planning, commissioning, construction, startup, security, logistics, as well as operations and maintenance, to an array of multinational organizations including the likes of The United Nations, Atomic Energy of Canada, Canadian Space Agency, Exxon, Fluor, Aramco, Shell, Chevron, Woodside, BHP, Electrical Generating Authority Thailand, BP, ABB, SNC Lavalin, Johnson Controls Ltd, Nexxen/CNOOC, Conoco Philips, Petro Canada, GE, Environment Canada, Husky, Gibson Energy, Hakluyt & Company Ltd., Enbridge Pipelines, EPCOR, and IBM.
Mr. James Bame,
JD, BSIE, Patent Attorney, Industrial Engineering (USA)
Mr. James Bame has a diverse background with expertise in numerous fields. He holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Washington and a Law degree from Loyola of Los Angeles.
For over four decades Mr. Bame’s career has given him the opportunity to work with a diverse network of individuals and entities, ranging from investors to inventors, from academic institutions to governmental agencies, and from manufacturers to financial institutions.
Throughout his career, Mr. Bame has consulted for numerous industrial, construction and utility companies as well as a multitude of clients engaged in the mining and precious metals industry – including the likes of ABB, GE and Westinghouse.
Many of Mr. Bame’s patent and consulting clients are engaged in the mining and precious metals industry. Mr. Bame has been directly involved in the development of patented and trade-secret technologies for the extraction and refinement of platinum group and other precious metals. In similar fashion, Mr. Bame has collaborated with various universities on the commercialization of technology from their patent portfolios and research projects – notably including the University of California’s platinum nanotube technology that has application in the production of fuel cells.
Mr. Bame’s service to his clients in the mining sector has afforded him specific experience in dealing with the regulatory agencies such as the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), with specific expertise in permitting, regulatory, and environmental compliance. Additional services delivered to his mining clients have included the sourcing and execution of off-take contracts to qualified buyer’s on behalf of his clients to facilitate the sale and market delivery of refined metals emanating from mining operations.
Also noteworthy is the fact that Mr. Bame has worked with MINERALRITE on and off for more than a decade. Mr. Bame’s knowledge and expertise, his industry relationships, and the decades of experience and trust over which they have been built, provides MINERALRITE a distinct advantage in forming the industry relevant alliances necessary to achieve the Company objectives.
Mr. Alexander Harmon,
Mine & Mine Site Equipment, Consultant & Manufacturer, (USA)
Mr. Alexander Harmon has spent his entire professional career in and around the mining industry. Mr. Harmon’s experience and education in mining began while working with his father at Goldfield International Inc., a former subsidiary of the MINERALRITE Corporation, which specialized in the manufacturing and sales of mining and mine related equipment.
Mr. Harmon has spent most of his career in the field where he was tasked with establishing relationships with the locals; previewing and prospecting mine sites; evaluating mine sites to determine the equipment needed to process the substrate and recover the targeted materials; and developing and implementing production processes for a host of different types of mining projects.
Mr. Harmon’s operational experience includes implementing recovery from a wide variety of geologic formations – including alluvial, placer and hard-rock mines. Specific project experience includes development of prospecting programs; identifying and obtaining the requisite equipment; establishing pilot program production; and designing and implementing mine operation plans – including the building and/ or sourcing of all equipment necessary for operations, installation and testing of said equipment, and initialization of full-scale production. Additionally, Mr. Harmon has experience in the design and build out of “off-grid” energy systems for remote mining operations.
During his career, Mr. Harmon has gained extensive knowledge of equipment manufacturing as well as the operations of both small and large-scale mines – with experience both domestically (USA) and abroad. Notable projects include Tabar Island Gold Mine, located in Papua New Guinea (2016); Kiarie Gold Mine, also located in Papua New Guinea (2016-2018); Seminar Gold & Diamond Mines, located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2021); as well as numerous mining projects located in the Southwestern United States.
Mr. Harmon’s expertise and field experience in mine site development; his abilities to design and implement mining recovery circuits; and his broad-based knowledge of the mining industry provides MINERALRITE an incredible resource to draw upon as the Company moves into the future.
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