Christopher Graf, P.Eng

Vice-President Exploration 

Christopher Graf - obtained a B.Ap.Sc degree in geological engineering from UBC in 1974 and has been registered as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng) with the Association of Professional Engineers of B.C. since 1980. He has successfully applied his profession for the past 40 years in B.C., Alberta, Yukon and Mexico, his forte being mineral property evaluation, field exploration and designing diamond drilling programs. In 1983 he staked the Kerr claims on an area of promising porphyry copper-gold mineralization at Sulphurets Creek in NW BC. This property is now a major part of Seabridge Gold Corp’s world class KSM project that contains an estimated 30 million ounces of gold and 12 billion pounds of copper. In 1978 he staked the Akie claims on a previously unexplored zinc prospective area in the northern BC Rockies and he continuously explored and developed it until it was taken over by another company in 2007. The Akie deposit contains an indicated plus inferred resource of 30 million tonnes grading 10% zinc/lead and is the second largest zinc deposit ever discovered in BC after the Sullivan deposit. In 2001 he staked the Wicheeda claims on a zone of rare earth mineralization near Prince George BC and in 2008 and 2009 designed and conducted the first drilling and metallurgical programs on the property. The deposit has an indicated plus inferred resource of 15 million tonnes grading 2.5 % REE and with its very favorable infrastructure is arguably the most significant rare earth deposit in Canada. Mr. Graf was a director of the BC and Yukon Chamber of Mines during the 1990’s and was very involved with the Chamber’s Aboriginal Affairs and Environmental/Park committees which were trying to mitigate BC’s ambitious policies that were largely negative for mineral exploration in BC. For his work he was the 2011 recipient of the Frank Woodside Past Presidents Award for distinguished service to the minerals industry from the Chamber, now named AME BC.