BIOGRAPHY

Andrey Shakhov was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan has over 30 years of experience in the mineral geology. He started his work carrier in 1988 as geologist joining PGO "Yuzhkazgeologiya".

Andrey has worked as chief geologist, technical director at Kazakhstani geological exploration companies, where he worked on gold deposits of the Chu-Ili region, Kokshetau gold province, worked on prospecting and exploration of copper-porphyry, copper-gold and polymetallic deposits of Pavlodar, Karaganda, East Kazakhstan and Kostanay regions.

In 2011-2014 he worked on preparation of mining operations at Dolinnoye deposit. For the last 6 years has worked as a deputy technical director at major mining projects in Iran.

With over 30 years of experience in managing and conducting geological exploration, Andrey authored and co-authored a number of reports on mineral resource and mineral reserve estimates of gold deposits according to GKZ and JORC standards (Novodneprovskoe, Raygorodok, Naimanzhal, Baritovy, Koskuduk, Baltemir, Beschoku, Baitemir, Yubileinoe, Boko-Vasilievskoe, Kopaly, Zhilandy and Dolinnoye).

Additionally, Mr. Shakhov has experience in preparing mining projects for listing on the London Stock Exchange.