Pierre Rocque
Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Rocque is a mining engineer with over 35 years of experience. He has worked at many gold mines in Canada, including as Vice President Operations and Technical Services for Kirkland Lake Gold, Vice President Engineering for St Andrew Goldfields, Director Technical Services at Lake Shore Gold, Chief Engineer at the Red Lake, QR and Macassa mines, Rock Mechanics Engineer at Hemlo's Golden Giant Mine and various mining engineering roles at Hoyle Pond, Mobrun, and Agnico-Eagle's Joutel mines. Mr. Rocque also worked as Manager Mine Improvement Projects and Chief Engineer-Geotechnical at WMC (now BHP Billiton) Olympic Dam mine in Australia prior to joining AMEC (now Wood) as Manager Mining and Geology and later worked as the Global Practice Director – Mining at Hatch. Mr. Rocque graduated from l'Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal with a Bachelor degree in Mining Engineering in 1986 and from Queen's University at Kingston with a Master's degree in Mining Engineering in 1992. He is registered as a professional engineer with PEO.