Primary Job Title CEO & Director Primary Organization Gold Express Mines
Location Coeur D'alene, Idaho, United States Regions Western US Gender Male
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John Ryan is the CEO & Director of Gold Express Mines and President & CEO of Premium Exploration Inc. He is a former Co-Founder at Western Goldfields. He attended the University of Idaho and Boston College Law School.
Ryan has over 20 years of extensive international mining and business experience. He completed a Bachelor's degree in
Mining Engineering at the University of Idaho, during which time he worked at the various mines within the district including the Consolidated Silver Mine operated by Hecla Mining, and the Galena Mine, then operated by ASARCO, Inc. Upon completion of his engineering studies Ryan served four years as a U.S. Naval Officer, and subsequently completed a Juris Doctor degree at Boston College Law School.
Throughout his career, Ryan has founded several resource companies including Royal Silver Mines, Inc. which explored and developed a number of silver and copper mining properties in North Idaho, Mexico and Chile, and he co-founded Metalline Mining in 1996 which owns the Sierra Mojada land package in Mexico, this company is now known as Silver Bull Resources.
In 2002 Ryan co-founded Western Goldfields, Inc. which successfully purchased the Mesquite Mine in Southern California from Newmont Mining. Western Goldfields is now a part of New Gold with one of the prime operating assets being the Mesquite Mine.
In 2006 Ryan co-founded U.S. Silver Corporation which successfully negotiated the acquisition of all of the North Idaho assets of Coeur d’Alene Mines Corporation.
