Steve Leary has 14 years of varied and extensive field experience working on gold/silver and porphyry copper projects in Australia, New Zealand, Slovakia, Romania and South America. He received his First Class Honors Degree in Geology from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. While working in Romania at Gabriel Resources Rosia Montana deposit, Steve and his team successfully added over 2.5 million ounces of gold to the resources. Steve joined the Aurelian team in March 2005.

The silicification becomes progressively weaker upwards in the conglomerate sequence, although patchy alteration is widespread as shown by the change in conglomerate colour from the original red to pale green. The outcropping silicification (Fig. 1) is the surface manifestation of a steep, tabular zone of silicified conglomerate that is mainly located farther west and, hence, off section. This is the outcropping silicification that led Steve Leary to drill the Fruta del Norte discovery hole.

I just want people to remember his name.

Thanks Steve. You earned it.

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