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WHEN YOU SPEAK to Ken Konkin, P.Geo.,Vice President of Project
Development, Tudor Gold Corp. [TUD-TSXV; TDRRF-OTC], he comes across as
a man doing what he was born to do – exploring for valuable mineral deposits.
Born and raised in Nelson, southern British Columbia, as a young boy, he
lived on Silver King Road which was the access road for the former Silver King
Mine. In an interview, Ken told Resource World, "I spent countless hours in my
youth going through the dump piles finding silver-rich massive galena," he
remembered. "So basically, it was baptism by massive sulfides. I caught silver
fever because there was not too much gold at the Silver King Mine."
Taking minerals seriously, Ken attended the University of British Columbia
and received a Bachelor of Science degree in geology in 1984. "The focus of
my degree was economic geology with an emphasis on precious and base metal
systems," he said. "I'm currently a registered Geoscientist with the Association
of Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia."
"I studied all types of deposits at UBC but, ironically, since I spent 19 years
with Silver Standard searching the world for sizable silver-dominant systems,
I felt it was fitting since I grew up near Silver King Mine and subsequently
studied silver-rich systems within the West Kootenays as a student," he said.
"However, in my early years, as a young geologist, I spent most my time up in
the Golden Triangle prior to my tenure with Silver Standard."
Geologist Ken Konkin in British
Columbia's Golden Triangle with the
Treaty Creek property in the background.
Photo courtesy Ken Konkin.
GEOLOGIST
KEN KONKIN
– Unravelling
the riddle of
Golden Triangle
rocks
by Ellsworth Dickson