Mike received his bachelor’s degree in Earth Science/Geology from Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, NL. He is currently a Sr. Project Geologist with New Found Gold Corp. and has worked on the Queensway Gold Project since 2016.  

Mike is a Professional Geoscientist registered with PEGNL since 2005 with over 30 years experience conducting mineral exploration in Newfoundland and Labrador, Northern Quebec, Manitoba, and the Northwest Territories. He is also an executive of the Newfoundland and Labrador Prospectors Association where he mentors new and existing prospectors and geologists as their Central Representative, an assessor of new P.Geo. entrants with PEGNL, and a member of the NL Mineral Rights Adjudication Board.  

With 30 years of exploration experience, Mike has been a part of many exploration plays starting as a prospector and mapping geologist, logging core, conducting project evaluation, resource estimation thru to mining. Mike has worked on a variety of deposit types including Archean Lode Gold and Orogenic Gold, VMS Base Metals, Magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE, Igneous Rare Earths, Iron Formations, and Dimension Stone, among other commodities. This exploration has seen him work around the Labrador Trough and the Ashuanipi Complex, the Raglan Belt in northern Quebec, north of Voisey’s Bay, central Newfoundland VMS deposits, the Yellowknife Greenstone Belt, Glover Island in Grand Lake, and many more areas before coming to the Queensway Project in his backyard 90km from his hometown of Botwood.  

Mike has a strong leadership ability and combines this with a solid knowledge of geological environments, ore genesis models, and current exploration methodologies towards generating efficient modern exploration teams. Currently he fills a number of roles with New Found Gold including permitting, assessment and technical reporting, land management, geoscience mentoring, and project logistics, among others.