Scorpio Gold Corp. (SRCRF)

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In April 2011, James W. Ashton was named mine manager at Mineral Ridge.

http://www.scorpiogold.com/s/news.asp?ReportID=465240

From the PR: Mr. Ashton began his career in 1984 as an engineer with Tenneco Minerals Company at the 40,000 tons per day (TPD) Borealis open-pit, heap leach gold mining operation in Nevada, where in 1986 he became the Senior Engineer under Echo Bay Mines Ltd

The next link is a technical report prepared in 2005, intended to lead to a 43-101 on Goldwedge. It even contains the start of a resource estimate by the author. The author? The very same James W. Ashton.

http://markets.on.nytimes.com/research/stocks/fundamentals/drawFiling.asp?docKey=137-000120445912001263-1EI5RK1V50KNLKJUUUT7QDRJIR&docFormat=HTM&formType=6-K

So obviously lots of due dilligence for Peter Hawley from Ashton on Royal and Goldwedge. When did Waterton get involved? June 30th, 2011, the prliminary financing PR, finalized on 8/29/2011, just a couple months after Ashton goes to work for Scorpio Gold.

Does Ashton's previous work at Borealis mean anything for the purchase of Gryphon Gold by Scorpio? We shall see.

These coincidences just keep showing up