Richard Spencer
President and Director
Geology and Earth Science
Aurania
Canada
Biography
Dr. Spencer brings both corporate and technical experience relevant to Aurania and to its Lost Cities – Cutucu Project in Ecuador, the flagship asset of the Company. Richard is a PhD geologist with 10 years of experience in Ecuador, having led Gencor Ltd.’s exploration team that made the grassroots discovery of the San Carlos, Mirador and Panantza porphyries that contain an estimated 24 billion pounds of copper and 3 million ounces of gold. These deposits lie in the area immediately south, and along trend of the Lost Cities – Cutucu Project. Dr. Spencer also worked at Iamgold Corp. where his team discovered the Quimsacocha – Loma Larga deposit in Ecuador, containing resources of 3.3 million ounces of gold and 23 million ounces of silver. He later joined Crystallex International Corp. as VP-Exploration, working on the Las Cristinas gold deposit in Venezuela, where his team increased the gold reserves by 65% from 10.2 million to 16.8 million ounces. Richard was appointed to the Company’s Board of Directors on March 6, 2017. In addition, Richard will continue to serve as President, CEO and Director of U3O8 Corp., a TSX-listed exploration company with resources of uranium and battery commodities in deposits in Argentina, Colombia and Guyana.
Research Interest
Geology and Earth Science
