Larry Segerstrom joins Cougar Minerals board
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Mr. Segerstrom is a professional geologist with more than 30 years of experience in mining industry including 20 years in exploration and 12 years in senior management with large domestic and international mining operations.
Mr. Segerstrom's previous assignments include manager of geologic services group for Freeport-McMoRan from 1999 to 2003, where he managed all on-site geologic activities in the world-class Grasberg mining district in Indonesia, including open pit and underground mine geology and district exploration. He was general manager of Layne Christensen drilling company's highly successful Mexican subsidiary from 1993 to 1999.
As a geologist for Newmont, Noranda and Phelps Dodge from 1976 to 1993, Mr. Segerstrom conducted greenfield and brownfield exploration, evaluation and development in diverse geologic settings in the Western United States, Mexico and Chile, including epithermal precious metal (low and high sulphidation), mesothermal shear-hosted gold, iron oxide copper-gold, polymetallic replacement, copper porphyry/skarn and porphyry molybdenum. ■