Paul K. Smith

Vice President Exploration of Silver Spruce Resources Inc. (TSXV: SSE). P.Geo. Currently COO/CFO of Triple One Metals and founder and President of Earth Science Consulting (NS 2025) Ltd. Graduated from Acadia University in 1973 and 1976 with BSc and MSc degrees and joined the Nova Scotia Department of Mines in 1975, pursuing structural and economic geological research until his retirement in 2008 -- a 33-year residency with the Mineral Resources Branch as a Senior Research Gold Geologist and as Liaison Geologist. Subsequently joined Acadian Mining, acting as VP Environmental Compliance and Permitting at the Gays River Pb-Zn mine in Nova Scotia, and in 2011 joined Mountain Lake Resources as VP Exploration; in 2012 he was instrumental in that company's plan of arrangement with Marathon Gold on the Valentine Lake gold deposit in Newfoundland, later becoming President and CEO of Mountain Lake Minerals, renamed MLK Gold and more recently Triple One Metals. Has worked in the Yukon, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, as well as Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Nevada and California, across oxide/sulphide base metals, iron, tungsten, lithium, REE and other critical metals in addition to gold. Source: silverspruceresources.com/corporate/management-technical/.