Michael Thomsen
Director
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Mr. Thomsen has had an extensive and highly successful career in mineral exploration spanning more than 40 years in the mining sector. Mr. Thomsen serves as Executive Chairman of North American Strategic Minerals Inc. focused on rare earth elements exploration in North America. He was formerly the Director of International Exploration at Newmont Mining (NYSE:NEM). Before that he held the role of Chief Geologist for Indonesia at Freeport McMoRan (NYSE:FCX) and Exploration Manager at Gold Fields (NYSE:GFI). Mr. Thomsen directed exploration efforts in two of the world’s major mining districts for Newmont at the Yanacocha, Peru high sulphidation gold district and for Freeport at the Ertsberg-Grasberg porphyry/skarn Cu-Au district in Indonesia. Mr. Thomsen graduated with BSc in Geology from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and holds MSc in Geology from Wisconsin-Madison.
