DURANGO RESOURCES INC. Durango Resources Inc. has added Dr. Lee Groat to its Technical Committee to help advise on its wholly owned Discovery and NMX East Properties in Québec. Lee Groat graduated from Queen's University with a B.Sc. (Honours, Geology) in 1982 and from the University of Manitoba with a Ph.D. in 1988.
From 1988 to 1989 he was a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at Cambridge University. Professor Groat has been a faculty member at the University of British Columbia since 1989. In 2002 he was awarded the Killam Prize for Excellence in Teaching, and since 2007 he has been Director of the Integrated Sciences specialization, which enables students to create custom degree programs. Professor Groat's main research interests are the geology of critical elements, gem deposits, and the crystal chemistry of minerals.
He has published more than 150 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. From 2001 to 2006 Prof. Groat was Editor of American Mineralogist. From 2012 to 2022 he was Editor of The Canadian Mineralogist.
From 2007 until 2021 Prof. Groat was Chair of the Commission on Gem Materials of the International Mineralogical Association. In 2003 Prof. Groat was elected a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America, and in 2009 the new mineral groatite, NaCaMn2+2(PO4)[PO3(OH)]2, was named in his honor. In 2019 he was awarded the Leonard G. Berry medal for distinguished service to the Mineralogical Association of Canada.
Professor Groat is an Independent Director of multiple companies in the exploration and technology spheres and a partner in a private consulting company. The Discovery Property is located in the highly prospective James Bay Territory, 100km north of Chibougamau, Québec in the Frotet-Evans greenstone belt. In July of 2022, Durango completed an exploration drill campaign in an area with known gold anomalies at surface.
To date, partial results have come in for holes 1, 2, and 4. Lithium- bearing pegmatite pods were intersected in each of the drill holes which led to the corporate decision to invite additional expertise to the technical committee.
