Managment & Directors

Robert Rich, CEO

Mr. Rich is well-known and respected in both international uranium mining and nuclear electric utility circles, and has over 30 years of experience in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. He has been involved in the exploration and development of uranium projects, the marketing, conversion, and enrichment of uranium, nuclear fuel transportation, and spent fuel disposal services for nuclear power plants. As an independent consultant, Mr. Rich has also been active in many other facets of the nuclear industry, including marketing and sales, contracting, procurement, and evaluation services in the areas of nuclear power and nuclear fuel commodities.

Mr. Rich has consulted to or worked directly for such companies as BHP Billiton, WMC Resources, Sumitomo Corp, Ontario Power Gen, and several US utilities, including Yankee Atomic Electric Company (subsidiary of New England Electric System). Some of his many achievements include: managing the US nuclear utility group which bought the first non-US enrichment services in 1984, sold the first Olympic Dam U3O8 in the US and Canada making this the first non-Canadian uranium purchased by a Canadian nuclear utility, received the first delivery of Russian enriched uranium to the USA in the mid-1980’s, hosted the first nuclear delegation from the Peoples Republic of China to visit the USA, and while on a government-funded Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Harvard, spearheaded some of the earliest research on what are now called unconformity-type uranium deposits including the Athabasca Basin.

Mr. Rich is a long-time member of the Society of Economic Geologists and obtained his Masters and Doctoral degrees from Harvard University.

Donald K. Cooper

From 2000 until his retirement in late 2007, Donald K. Cooper served as President of Behre Dolbear & Company (USA), Inc., an internationally known and respected mineral industry consulting firm. Since 1996, he has also served as the Global Director of Coal Services for that firm’s parent company, Behre Dolbear & Company, Inc. He is currently a senior associate, a principal and a director of the parent company.

From 1977 through 1996, Mr. Cooper served as the senior sales and marketing officer for a group of privately-held eastern U.S. coal mining companies, including Amvest Corporation, Hawk’s Nest Mining, Inc., Winchester Coals, Inc., and Princess Susan Coal Company. In those positions, he had extensive dealings with the region’s major electric power generating utilities. He was also responsible for relationships with international industrial and steel-manufacturing customers.

From 1966 through 1976, Mr. Cooper held various engineering, operating and technical services positions with the Raw Materials Group of United States Steel Corporation and with North American Coal Corporation. During that period, he served on various governmental advisory committees with respect to development and implementation of the Federal Clean Air Act and the Federal Clean Water Act.

Mr. Cooper received a BS in Mineral Preparation Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 1966 and did graduate level work at in Mineral Economics at West Virginia University during 1967 and 1968.