C. Paul Jago
Exploration Manager
C. Paul Jago is a Professional Geologist registered with Engineers and Geoscientists BC and has extensive experience in mineral exploration across British Columbia and the southwestern United States. He has held senior technical and leadership roles, including Senior Geologist at Amarc Resources Ltd., Chief Geologist at Pacific Ridge Exploration Ltd., and Exploration Manager at Centerra Gold Services Inc, with extensive experience at Mount Milligan mine, from 2017 to 2022. Mr. Jago served as the British Columbia Regional Geologist for the Ministry of Energy and Mines (2012- 2017). His experience also includes near-mine exploration work with Freeport‑McMoRan in Arizona and Colorado, on porphyry copper and molybdenum operations, providing a strong foundation across both greenfields and brownfields exploration environments and operations.
Mr. Jago holds an M.Sc. from the University of British Columbia, where he studied through the Mineral Deposit Research Unit (MDRU). His M.Sc. thesis on the Mt. Milligan deposit was published in Economic Geology in 2014. He currently serves as a director of AMEBC, the Association for Mineral Exploration in British Columbia.