Cervantes Corporation: Keys to Exploration Success
BY CAMERON DRUMMOND BEING an exploration company has many hurdles, but the payoffs can be huge with a highly motivated and experienced team at the helm. This, according to Cervantes Corporation managing director Marcus Flis, is the philosophy behind his company’s interest in the historic Payne’s Find gold field. Q: What is your professional history? The big end of town was my training ground. Multi-commodity exploration with CRA Exploration. Membership of “task forces” was a highlight of that experience. Later, work with Newmont Australia gave me very specific experience in various styles of gold deposits. I was called back by Rio Tinto to head up a task force in the Hamersley Basin, following which I was appointed Global Director, New…