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Scorpio Gold

 

 

 

 

Scorpio Gold (TSX-V: SGN, OTCQB: SRCRF, FSE: RY9) holds a 100% interest in the Manhattan District located in the Walker Lane Trend of Nevada, USA. Scorpio Gold’s Manhattan District is ~4,780-hectares and comprises the advanced exploration-stage Goldwedge Mine, with a 400 ton per day maximum capacity gravity mill, and four past-producing pits that were acquired from Kinross in 2021 (see March 25, 2021 news release). The consolidated Manhattan District presents an exciting late-stage exploration opportunity, with over 140,000 metres of historical drilling, significant resource potential, and valuable permitting and water rights.

Corporate Presentation

 

Projects

 

Manhattan

 

Situated on the southern periphery of the Manhattan Caldera, approximately 16 km south of the over 15-million-ounce Round Mountain Mine is the 100% owned Manhattan property.

 

This 6,071-acre property encompasses the Goldwedge Mine, the recently acquired Kinross Manhattan properties with two past producing gold mines, and the Keystone and Jumbo deposits.

 

The Goldwedge Mine is a fully permitted underground mine with over 600 meters of excavation. Drilling has outlined mineralization over a 335-meter strike length and to a vertical depth of over 150 meters (open).

 

Considerable exploration work on the Manhattan properties has been conducted by various operators since production ended at the Manhattan Mine in 1990.

 

Management & Directors

 

Zayn Kalyan

CEO & Director

 

Zayn Kalyan is an experienced investment banker and business development executive. Starting his career as a software engineer, his background in the “ground-up” development of startup technology companies serves as his foundation in finance. As a partner at Altus Capital Partners, Zayn has played an instrumental role in the origination of over $50 million in financing. Zayn has served in upper management and on the boards of multiple public companies since 2014.

Andrea Yuan

CFO

 

Andrea a CPA, CGA in British Columbia, Canada, and also a CPA in New Hampshire, USA. She has many years experience as an auditor of public companies as well as from working in China. She specialize in providing accounting, financial and management consulting to venture companies listed on TSX-V, CSE, OTCBB and ASX. Over 20+ years in the industry, Andrea has significant experience in public company mergers & acquisitions, reverse take-overs, initial public offerings and CPC qualifying transactions.

 

Harrison Pokrandt

VP Exploration

 

With over eight years of experience in mineral exploration, Mr. Pokrandt has developed extensive geologic knowledge working on various styles of gold deposits worldwide. His global experience includes projects in Canada, Nevada, Uzbekistan, Finland, Japan, and Mali. Primarily with major producer B2Gold, he has been involved in projects and mines at all stages of development, from grassroots exploration to active mining operations. Notable projects he has worked on include B2Gold’s Fekola, Skeena Resources’s Eskay Creek, and most recently B2Gold’s Back River Project. Additionally, Mr. Pokrandt serves as an Independent Director of Saga Metals Corp.

 

Jeff Lindstrom

VP Operations

 

Mr. Lindstrom has spent his career in the mining industry with over 30 years of experience.  He began as a mine engineer with Pegasus Gold Corporation, including working at the Black Pine gold project currently under development by Liberty Gold.  Jeff was Operations Manager for Atlanta Gold Corp. and worked on a development strategy for Atlanta to move from bulk mining and cyanide heap leaching plans to a combined shallow open-pit and underground operation with on-site milling without cyanide. As Engineering Manager for ISR Capital and Owyhee Gold he worked on several open pit and underground mineral projects in Idaho and Montana.  With Gold Torrent, Inc. he worked on the high-grade, underground Lucky Shot gold project in Alaska.  His work with Daniel Kunz & Associates, as Senior Mine Engineer, includes engineering activities for a high-grade gold-silver exploration in Mexico, services to Scorpio Gold related to the Company’s Manhattan gold project, and supporting various DKA project due diligence.  He holds degrees from Boise State University and Phoenix Institute of Technology.  He has significant work experience in project design, modelling, construction, and material processing with his more recent work in project assessment and development.

 

Thomas Poitras

Chief Geologist

 

Thomas Poitras is a professional geologist with over 13 years’ experience throughout the petroleum, mining, and consulting industries. Managing projects with budgets up to $35M, his versatile skillset has recently supported him in his roles as Senior Geologist and Mine Manager while progressing projects at stages throughout the entire mine life cycle. Notable projects he has worked on include: Graphite One, Skeena Resources’s Eskay Creek & Snip Mine (Hochschild Mining), Seabridge Gold’s KSM, , and Vale’s Copper Cliff Mine. Mr. Poitras completed his B.Sc. in Geology at the University of Alberta.

 

Leo Hathaway

Executive Technical Director

 

Leo Hathaway, P. Geo., is a Professional Geologist with 30 years of experience in the mineral exploration industry and is currently Executive Chairman of Golden Shield Resources Inc. and Senior Vice President of Lumina Gold Corp. Mr. Hathaway played a pivotal role in the acquisition, advancement and sale of the ten original Lumina Copper projects in the Americas to seven different companies, aggregating $1.65bn. He has also had key involvement in numerous successful public and private ventures, such as Ventana Gold’s La Bodega project in Colombia and its $1.5bn sale to AUX, as well as the origination, acquisition and advancement of Lumina Gold’s 20.5moz Cangrejos gold project in Ecuador. Mr. Hathaway holds a BSc (Hons) in Applied Geology from the University of Plymouth, an MSc in Mineral Exploration from Imperial College, London. He is a registered Professional Geoscientist with EGBC.

 

Michael Townsend

Independent Director

 

Mr. Townsend has extensive experience in corporate finance spanning over 25 years and 30 years in Capital Markets. Mr. Townsend is one of the founding partners of Altus Capital Partners, a boutique investment bank based in Vancouver, B.C. Altus has been involved in raising over $180-million in equity financings over the past five years. Mr. Townsend co-founded Hemptown, Patriot One Technologies Inc., and Body and Mind Inc., Raytec Metals Corp., and previously served as CEO of Lateegra Gold Corp. and CEO of West Hawk Development Corp.

 

Ian Dawson, BA, MBA

Independent Director

 

Ian G. Dawson BA, MBA, President Dawson Group Limited.  The Dawson Group is primarily involved in Construction (1922), Road Maintenance (1988) and Truck Sales, Service and Leasing (1991).

 

William M. Sheriff

Independent Director

 

Mr. Sheriff is an entrepreneur with over 40 years of experience in the minerals industry; has raised over $500 MM in the public markets and has extensive experience with mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Sheriff was co-founder and Chairman of Energy Metals Corp. where he was responsible for compiling the largest domestic uranium resource base in US history before the company was acquired by Uranium One Corp for $1.8 Billion in 2007. He currently serves as Chairman of Nuclear Fuels Inc. and C2C Metals Corp, both publicly-traded companies. Mr. Sheriff holds a B.Sc. degree (Geology) from Fort Lewis College, Colorado and an MSc in Mining Geology from the University of Texas-El Paso.

 

Contact

 

Scorpio Gold Corp.

Corporate Office

Suite 750 – 1095 West Pender Street
Vancouver, BC
V6E 2M6, Canada
ir@scorpiogold.com
+1.604.252.2672

 

 

 

 

Posted August 13, 2025

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