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Thomas J. Hice, 73 years in age, (Tom) currently is Hice Exploration & Royalty Corporation’s (HERC) Executive Vice President, serves as Alaska Mines Corporation’s Chief Executive Officer www.aualaska.com, owner in Nome Gold Corporation, Nome Gold Adventures Inc. www.nomegoldadventures.com, Geodrilling Technologies, Inc., and several other corporations operating in various other industries. Primary occupation since 1978 has been a Certified Public Accountant practicing in public accounting as an exclusive owner of a public accounting firm. Also taught accounting at Southern Oregon State University and Rogue Community College and has obtained real estate and custom broker’s licenses. Notable achievements include The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants 1998 award for third place in the nation for development of the most innovative software design for business management decisions in a dynamic environment using graphical displays for “sink or swim” scenarios. Other areas of interest and achievements include:

• • Sole owner of Geodrilling Technologies, Inc. This Oregon Corporation is a holding company for two United States patents granted in 2018 called, “Low-Frequency Pulsing Sonic and Hydraulic Mining System” and “Low-Frequency Pulsing Sonic and Hydraulic Mining Method.” These patents are instrumental in protecting the rights to Hydro-Scopic™ mine subterranean mineral deposits with environmental sensitivity and profit motives.
  • International specialty in taxation with extensive business dealings in Asia including Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and a few others. Established the first Russian/American joint venture in the Russian Far East and set up a chain of jewelry stores throughout Russia under the name “Russian Gold Nuggets”;
  • Owned Gold Nuggets, Inc. – a marketing and jewelry manufacturing Oregon Corporation. Sold gold nuggets throughout Europe and the USA. Imported USA nuggets into Russia with some difficulty. Solely responsible for the high import tariff on gold nuggets entering Russia. Developed a dimensional grading system used in Russia for classifying gold nuggets.
  • Joint owner in Geobio Technologies, Inc. This was a very technical Company that developed a gold prospecting technique using bacterial spore dominance to indicate plausible heavy metal concentration as an added indicator for drilling and exploration. Although the process was impeccable, the confidence level as an indicator was insufficient to justify the cost versus the benefit;
  • Owned a real estate and insurance school in Southern Oregon. Also formed and owned ARE Properties, Inc. (aka “Apple Real Estate”) specializing in using “Reverse Mortgages” for enhancing the purchase price of a home for seniors without payments. Developed a software program for this Company showing how equity in purchasing a higher value home with a reverse mortgage could dramatically increase the value of that equity compared to purchasing a lesser valued home.
  • Organized and managed a nonprofit corporation named Gateway America, Inc. Provided medical equipment and supplies to South America, Russia, and Belarus with free shipping and paying less than 1% of donations for administrative costs.
  • Served as financial advisor to the Shasta Nation Native American Tribe in Northern California. Instrumental in providing property with its own I-5 interchange for casino development. Designed casino and started funding when the economy crashed in 2007;
  • Attended the Colorado School of Mines with a professional engineering degree goal in geochemical engineering before enlisting in the U.S. Army. Educated in life with a tour in Viet Nam (1969-1970) before receiving an honorable discharge. Then settled in Southern Oregon and received a Bachelor of Science degree in business from Southern Oregon State University with advanced studies at Portland State University for a Master’s degree in taxation and business administration.

Being a Public accountant for forty years has been a real education in business and all aspects of human ingenuity and lack thereof. In addition to this experience, mining has been a major personal and professional interest for many of these years and has culminated in the Hydro-Scopic™ mining process. Hydro-Scopic™ mining embraces all the prerequisites for managing the mining process with targeted profit motives mostly learned by experience. Some of this experience follows:

• • Observing and participating in Russian dredging and hydraulic mining techniques in the Russian Far East.
  • Advised tax and entity formation on Chilean joint venture with a USA corporation. Joint venture introduced a unique leaching hose for improved copper extraction in Chile with further testing and trials in Nevada’s heap leaching fields.
  • Negotiated and documented Canadian Company’s purchase of 4,000 acres of placer claims called the “Rabbit Hole” next to Hycroft Mine in northern Nevada.
  • Instrumental in purchasing and permitting several hundred acres in northeastern Oregon next to the Eagle Cap Wilderness Area. Property ideal for Hydro-Scopic™ mining.
  • Involved in mining operation in the Mormon Basin just south of Baker Oregon. A hedge fund financed this operations and is considering Hydro-Scopic™ mining.
  • Explored purchasing several placer plays in the Fairbanks area of Alaska. Tested and formed opinions on the feasibility of each property.
  • Invested in patented property on the Seward Peninsula north of Nome Alaska. Foreclosed on property and mined until placer played out. Property has deep rich deposits evidenced by drifting a century ago. Property is ideal for Hydro-Scopic™ mining.
  • Well versed in all aspects of filing, maintaining, and permitting claims. Have experience in hydraulic mining (using cannons), core drilling, tunneling, explosives, surface dredging, scuba diving, and flying as a private pilot for years.
  • Mining motto – “money costs more than it is worth, gold is worth more than money”