Norzinc Ltd.

Leadership

Management Team

Rohan Hazelton

Rohan Hazelton

President, CEO & Director

Mr. Hazelton is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) with more than 25 years of international finance experience, 20 of those years dedicated to the mining industry. He was appointed to the position of President, CEO and Director for NorZinc Inc. on May 3, 2021.

Mr Hazelton was previously the CFO of Cerrado Gold and Ascendant Resources, as well as Co-founder and CEO of KORE Mining. As one of the early employees of Wheaton River (Goldcorp) from 2002, he ascended into various senior management positions in the company through 2015, including VP Finance, CFO Mexican Operations, and VP Strategy and contributed to 5 mine builds over this time. He is a graduate of Harvard University in Applied Math and Economics and is a Co-founder and Director of Young Mining Professionals Association.

Peter Portka

Chief Financial Officer 

Mr. Portka is a mining financial professional with extensive metals and mining experience in corporate finance, corporate development, public accounting and M&A advisory.

During his career, he has been extensively involved with, and led, detailed financial due diligence on a multitude of mining investment opportunities, public financings, financial reporting and managing the day-to-day corporate operations of the company. He was most recently the VP Finance of Quintana Resources Capital, a US-based mining investment company and prior to that, was the Corporate Controller and Manager, Corporate Development at Sandstorm Gold Royalties. Mr. Portka holds Chartered Professional Accountant and Chartered Financial Analyst designations and has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia.

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Claudine Lee

VP CSR

Ms. Lee joined NorZinc in February 2021 as the VP of Corporate Social Responsibility She was most recently Head of Health, Safety, Environment Communities and Training at Dominion Diamond Mines. In this position, she was responsible for the implementation and maintenance of Dominion’s Health, Safety, Risk and Hygiene and Environment programs and policies ensuring compliance with all federal and territorial regulations. Ms. Lee holds a MSc in Geology/Environmental Geochemistry from Queen’s University and an Honours BSc in Geology and Environmental Science. She started her career as an Exploration Geologist. 

Shawn Tucker

Sr. Construction Manager

Mr. Tucker brings over 20 years of mining infrastructure construction experience, with the majority focused in sensitive environmental conditions in Arctic climates. Mr. Tucker’s experience includes supporting the construction in various capacities at the following projects, BHP Ekati Diamond Mine expansion, Diavik Diamonds Mine construction, Debeers Snap Lake and Gahcho Kue Construction, Agnico Eagles Meadowbank Gold Project, Baffinland Iron Ore Mine Construction, Pretium Brucejack Gold Mine HV Power Transmission Line, Voisey Bay underground expansion and recently completing the construction, commissioning and handover of the Kemano T2 Power Tunnel project.

Shawn Tucker
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James Chau

Project Manager

Mr. Chau has over 34 years of Project Management and Design Engineering on projects ranging from Mining and Metals, Carbon Capture, Petro-Chemical, Oil and Gas, to Chemical plants. Most recently he was the Project Engineering Manager at Freeport McMorran’s Bagdad expansion project in Arizona. Prior to that Mr. Chau worked for Kinross Gold Corp. in multiple projects in both Africa and Russia. Mr. Chau has led projects in various phases from scoping studies, pre-feasibility studies, feasibility studies, detail engineering, to site construction and commissioning phases for projects worldwide, including the UK, Europe, Azerbaijan, India, China, Chile, USA, Sweden, Russia, South Africa, and Canada. Mr. Chau is a Registered Professional Engineer in both British Columbia and Alberta.

Board of Directors

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Wes Loyd

Director

Mr. Loyd joined RCF in 2021 following a career in investment banking with Stifel Financial that spanned the metals, natural resources and real estate industries. During this time he led the origination and execution of a wide range of financing and strategic advisory transactions primarily in North America.

Prior to this he served as a Captain in the United States Army and was stationed domestically, in Europe as well as deployed to the Middle East. Wes leads RCF investment teams as well as supports transaction, financing and business development efforts across RCF.

Rohan Hazelton

Rohan Hazelton

President, CEO & Director

Mr. Hazelton is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) with more than 25 years of international finance experience, 20 of those years dedicated to the mining industry. He was appointed to the position of President, CEO and Director for NorZinc Inc. on May 3, 2021.

Mr Hazelton was previously the CFO of Cerrado Gold and Ascendant Resources, as well as Co-founder and CEO of KORE Mining. As one of the early employees of Wheaton River (Goldcorp) from 2002, he ascended into various senior management positions in the company through 2015, including VP Finance, CFO Mexican Operations, and VP Strategy and contributed to 5 mine builds over this time. He is a graduate of Harvard University in Applied Math and Economics and is a Co-founder and Director of Young Mining Professionals Association.

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Calum Semple

Director

Mr. Semple is a C-suite executive and board member with 35 years of global experience in start-up, turnaround, interim management and rapid growth environments. 

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