Donald E. Ranta | Mark T. Brown | Jim Clark |
Norm Anderson | Norman Burmeister |
Stephen Quin | David Beling | Gregory Mckelvey


Management

The management team of Rare Element Resources combines a high degree of experience in developing and financing mining companies. Its background includes former senior positions with Price Waterhouse Coopers, Teck Cominco Ltd., Miramar Mining Corporation, Phelps Dodge and many successful, publicly traded resource companies.



Donald E. Ranta, Ph.D., P.Geo.
President, CEO & Director
Donald Ranta is an exploration and development mining executive experienced in planning, implementing and directing successful exploration and acquisitions throughout North and South America and internationally. He is also a former president and board member of SME and is currently the Vice President, Finance and board member of AIME. He has successfully directed and led innovative exploration efforts resulting in the discovery, evaluation and/or acquisition of several major deposits including Montana's McDonald gold and Mexico's Santa Gertrudis gold ore bodies. He has also participated in the acquisition or discovery of a number of other gold deposits including Baja California's Paradones Amarillos, Idaho's Kiglore, Montana's Seven-Up Pete, Mexico's Dolores gold-silver, Burkina Faso's Youga gold and Russia's Kuranakh gold. In addition, he serves as a director of Animas Resources Ltd. and has been a Vice President of Exploration for Echo Bay Mines and Manager/Vice President for North American Exploration at Phelps Dodge Mining Company.

Mark T. Brown, B.Comm., C.A.
CFO & Director

Mark Brown is president and director of Pacific Opportunity Capital Ltd. Headquartered in Vancouver, BC, Pacific Opportunity is a financial consulting and merchant banking firm active in venture capital markets in North America. Mr. Brown is also an officer and director of a number of public and private companies, including Orphan Boy Resources, Barker Minerals, and Sutter Gold Mining. His corporate activities include transactions, financings and corporate financial planning. Prior to joining Pacific Opportunity, Mr. Browns background included managing financial departments of two TSE 300 mining corporations: Eldorado Gold and Miramar Mining.

Mr. Brown has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia and became a Chartered Accountant while with PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Jim Clark, Ph.D
Vice President, Exploration

Jim Clark brings 30 years of industry experience to Rare Element Resources. He has planned, organized, and conducted all aspects of project exploration and target generation work as an employee and a consultant for a variety of mining companies, including Molycorp and Hecla Mining Company. Dr. Clark has a strong field orientation with extensive supervisory and project management experience in exploration programs for industrial minerals, precious and base metals, and specialty metals. He was senior geologist, then exploration supervisor, for Hecla from 1986 -- 1992, and played a key role in identifying Rare Element Resources' current Bear Lodge REE resource and the property's underlying gold mineralization potential, now joint ventured with Newmont. Dr. Clark has extensive experience in exploration and academic studies of commodities related to alkaline igneous rocks, including REE's, Nb, and gold. He is the current owner and Chief Geologist of Applied Petrographics, a consulting company he formed in 1998 to provide petrographic and microanalytical services to the mining industry. Clients include Barrick Gold, Newmont Mining, Hecla Mining, AngloGold, and CVRD, as well as many smaller companies. He holds a Ph.D. in volcanic geology and igneous petrology from the University of Oregon, an M.S. in geological oceanography from Oregon State University, and a B.S. in geology from The Ohio State University. He is a licensed geologist in the state of Washington.

M. Norman Anderson, P.Eng.
Director

Mr. Anderson has had a long and distinguished career in the mining industry. Since 1987 he has been an active consultant, with a focus on due diligence and evaluation for financial institutions and mining companies. Prior to this, he worked for Cominco during which time he spent a four-year period in an executive position with Amax Lead Zinc. Inc. In 1978 he became President and Chief Operation Officer, and in 1980 he assumed complete responsibility for Comincos business as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Anderson brings a wealth of experience in specialized metals to Rare Element.

Norman Burmeister, P.Eng.
Director

Mr. Burmeister graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in Mining Geology in 1961 and has over 40 years of experience in the mining industry. He was Chief Geologist for Silver Standard Resources from 1965 to 1978. In 1980 he founded Bull Run Corporation and served as its Chairman and CEO until 1992. During that period Bull Run successfully found, explored and developed a significant gold mine in Elko County, Nevada.

Stephen P. Quin, P.Geo.
Director

Mr. Quin is the President of Sherwood Mining Corporation and was formerly the Executive Vice President and Director of Miramar Mining Corporation ("Miramar"). Mr. Quin is a graduate in mining geology from the Royal School of Mines, London, and has over 25 years experience in exploration, mining and corporate affairs. Mr. Quin was with Miramar through its formation, growth and reorganization to focus on the Hope Bay project. He joined Miramar as an independent director in 1987, and became Executive Vice-President in 1991. Mr. Quin is also an independent director of Mercator Minerals Ltd.

Gregory Mckelvey
Director

Mr. McKelvey, MS. Geol., has more than forty years of extensive, international experience in Latin America, Africa, and Europe in expanding responsibilities for significant mining companies such as Kennecott, Cominco, Homestake, and Phelps Dodge. He also acts as an Adjunct Faculty member at the University of Arizona in their International Center for Mining Health, Safety, and Environment and worked for the USGS in Latin America. He has also consulted for Lundin, Codelco, Phelps Dodge, Newmont Mining, Gerald Metals, and Quadra Mining. He is currently President of Animas Resources Ltd.