Charles Weakly serves as NuLegacy Gold’s Exploration Manager. Mr. Weakly is responsible for developing our team of geoscientists and leading a discovering of the next world class gold deposit at our Red Hill property in Nevada. Before joining NuLegacy in 2018, Mr. Weakly directed early-stage projects for Barrick Gold Exploration at Cortez, North Carlin Trend, Turquoise Ridge-Getchell, and Bald Mountain properties in Nevada. He also directed all aspects of near-mine exploration activities for Barrick Gold Exploration at the Goldstrike mine area.

Mr. Weakly earned a BSc. degree in Geological Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.

Areas of Expertise:

• Finding more gold, more high-grade gold
• Developing outstanding gold finders
• Project Management
• Reconnaissance and detailed geological mapping and sampling
• Detailed stratigraphic correlation
• 3D Geological Modeling

Bill Mounts oversees all drilling and drilling contractors' relationships in Nevada. Mr. Mounts has over 50 years of experience working with Newmont Exploration, Barrick Gold and numerous other major gold miners; he is credited with saving these companies millions in drilling expenses.

While employed by Barrick Gold, Mr. Mounts supervised numerous early stage drilling programs which were ultimately developed into mines such as Cerro Corona and Pierina in Peru, Pascua-Lama and Lagunas Norte in Chile, Alturas, and Veladero and Del Carmen in Argentina. More recently, Bill worked at most of Barrick's producing mines such as Goldstrike, Cortez, Turquoise Ridge, Ruby Hill, Bald Mountain and most of its exploration projects in Canada and Alaska. Mr. Mounts likes to fish and to visit new places.

Areas of Expertise:

• Supervision
• Drilling Methodology
• Cost Analysis
• Contract Negotiations

Mr. Leonardson’s career spans over 55 years across the Western United States, Eastern Canada, and Chile, exploring for and mining numerous commodities including gold, silver, platinum, base metals, and iron ore for Anaconda, Molycorp and Barrick.

Mr. Leonardson joined Barrick Gold Corp in 1992 where he worked at the Goldstrike Mine as Sr. Mine Geologist and Geological Advisor.  At Goldstrike, Bob focused on geologic mapping, cross section interpretation and three-dimensional modeling which led to understanding the complex fold and thrust architecture related to the massive gold deposit at Goldstrike and the Northern Carlin Trend.  Following Barrick’s acquisition of Placer Dome, Bob exported that methodology and knowledge to the Cortez Trend which contributed to the discovery of millions of ounces of gold at Pipeline, Cortez Hills and Goldrush/Fourmile.

One of Bob’s greatest contributions while at Barrick was as a mentor.  Charles Weakly, NuLegacy’s Exploration Manager and consultants Mike Penick and Nancy Richter were among the many whose exploration success benefitted from Bob’s mentoring.  With the addition of Bob to the team, it is anticipated that NuLegacy will advance the geologic understanding of the Carlin mineralizing system at Red Hill, resulting in the discovery of high-grade mineralization.

Ms. Nancy Richter, formerly US Exploration Manager, Barrick Gold Exploration Inc., has joined our geo-technical consultancy team.  Ms. Richter has a proven record of discovery including credits on the very high-grade Fourmile deposit north of the Goldrush deposit and subsequent expansion drilling.

Ms. Richter is an economic geologist with more than 25 years’ experience exploring for and developing Carlin-type gold projects in Nevada. From 2005 to 2020, Ms. Richter was a senior member of Barrick Gold’s exploration team, managing exploration at two of Barrick’s major districts as Chief Exploration Geologist (CEG) Turquoise Ridge (2013-2015) and CEG, Cortez (2015-2017), then leading all of Barrick’s US exploration as US Exploration Manager (2017-2020). 

Prior to joining Barrick, Ms. Richter worked as an exploration and mine geologist for several other companies, including as a Project Geologist for Newmont at the Post/Betze Mine on the Carlin trend. Ms. Richter holds an MS in Economic Geology from the University of Arizona.

Ms. Richter has previously worked with Mr. Charles Weakly, our Exploration Manager and together they will focus on our summer 2023 drilling program.  They will select 4 or 5 of the best holes to be drilled initially out of the 25+ possible drill sites that the geo-crew have selected. 

Mr. Michael Penick has joined our team of Carlin-type gold system discovery consultants developing our 2023 drilling program for our Red Hill property.

Mr. Penick was an integral part of the Exploration team that was responsible for the discovery of the multi-million-ounce Goldrush gold deposit. 

Mr. Penick, who holds a B.S. Geology, Southwest Missouri State University, has had a long and successful career in mineral exploration and management in copper, uranium and most particularly gold. 

Most notably, Mike held numerous positions in Nevada and globally for Barrick Gold. Initially as Chief Mine Geologist at the Betze-Post Open Pit, Goldstrike Mine he was responsible for mine geology, geotechnical engineering and resource modeling activities.

Later, after serving as Geological Services Manager at Kennecott’s Bingham Canyon Copper Mine, he held the position of Chief Exploration Geologist for Barrick’s Cortez district. Mike was then promoted to Director-USA Minesite Exploration of numerous Barrick-owned mine camps in the US including the Cortez, Goldstrike, Turquoise Ridge, Bald Mountain and Ruby Hill properties, after which, he became part of Barrick’s efforts in exploration support on all global mine sites as Manager-Minex.

Debra Struhsacker is a hardrock mining policy expert with over 30 years of hands-on expertise with the environmental and public land laws and regulations pertaining to mineral exploration and mine development.

Ms. Struhsacker provides environmental permitting and government relations consulting services to mineral exploration and mining clients. She has a proven track record of successfully representing clients in legislative and administrative issues on the state and federal levels and in securing project permits for exploration and mining projects. Since 1993, she has been an active participant in the legislative dialogue to change the U.S. Mining Law. She has provided testimonies at Congressional hearings on the National Environmental Policy Act, on abandoned mine policies, and the state and federal environmental regulatory framework applicable to modern mines.

Ms. Struhsacker is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wellesley College where she majored in both geology and French. She also has a Master of Science degree in geology from the University of Montana. She is one of the founders of the Women’s Mining Coalition and currently serves on the Coalition’s Board of Directors. Debra is a Certified Professional Geologist with the American Institute of Professional Geologists. Her professional memberships include the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America; the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc.; and the Geological Society of Nevada. She has served twice as a trustee of the Northwest Mining Association (now the American Exploration & Mining Association) and is an Emeritus Member of the Board of Directors of the Mountain States Legal Foundation.