Executive Management

Mr. Nicoletti is a certified public accountant with 35 years of experience managing public companies, advising on capital market transactions, and providing financial stewardship.  As President of Montreal-based SKTM Financial Corporation Ltd., he brings a proven track record of strategic financial consulting, accounting, auditing and financial compliance services to his clients. He is currently the CFO of several publicly listed mining and mineral exploration companies. Mr. Nicoletti graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration (Option Accounting) from the Université du Quebec in Trois-Rivières.

Mr. Carbajal is a senior geologist with more than 25 years of experience leading mining exploration and development projects in South America. His expertise spans gold, copper and other metals including heavy mineral deposits. His past tenure includes overseeing large-scale drilling campaigns and delivering both the JORC reporting (Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves) and the National Instrument 43-101 securities regulatory instrument in Canada, for a number of projects on which he was lead. Most recently as Senior Project Manager, Mr. Carbajal led a successful 20,000-meter drill campaign at C3 Metals Inc.’s Jasperoide Project, located in the prolific high-grade Andahuaylas-Yauri Porphyry-Skarn belt of Southern Peru. Prior to that, Mr. Carbajal worked as Operations Supervisor at Minera Chinalco Peru, at its Toromocho Copper Mine in the Morococha District of Peru, which is today, one of the largest copper mines in the world. Mr. Carbajal served as Senior Project Manager and Geologist at Latin Resources’ (now Pilbara Minerals) heavy minerals Guadalupito Project in Northern Peru and was responsible for delivering the JORC defined Inferred Resource Estimate of 1.073 billion tonnes @ 6.1% HM at the project’s Los Conchales deposit. He also worked for Rio Tinto, where he acted as Project Geologist, managing key copper and gold exploration projects, including advancing the geological understanding of the Mina Justa project (2024 Proven & Probable Reserves 248.9 million tonnes copper) as well as the management and development of the Constancia project for its subsequent sale to Norsemont Mining (later acquired by HudBay Minerals in 2011; 2025 Proven & Probable Reserves 488M tonnes copper).

Mr. Trottier Ph.D (1955 – 2026) was an early member of the Precore Gold team, and his great depth of geological knowledge and decades of successful experience, especially in Peru, was instrumental in the evaluation of the Company’s Arikepay Project in Southern Peru. It is in great part, that his input and his excitement over Arikepay, led to selecting it as our flagship project. “Jacques, your insight, enthusiasm and passion for this industry will forever be missed,” Paul A. Dumas.

Mr. Trottier was the founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Amex Exploration Inc, a junior gold exploration company. Mr. Trottier is commended for several significant gold deposit discoveries at their 100%-owned Perron Gold Project, located in Quebec, Canada. As per their December 2024 Preliminary Economic Assessment, the Perron Gold Project has over 1 million ounces of gold at an average diluted grade of 5.26 grams per tonne, with a life of mine of 10 years at a production rate of 101,000 ounces/year.

Prior to this, Mr. Trottier spent 20 years working in Peru as President of Sulliden Exploration Inc. During this time, he spearheaded the company’s initiatives in country with considerable success. Among his accomplishments are the discovery of two copper-gold porphyry systems (Cementerio and San Antonio) on the Huaquillas property in Northern Peru, as well as the discovery of a polymetallic high-grade zinc-lead-silver massive sulfide zone (known as Puna Puna), located in central Peru. This last discovery led to his recognition in the year 2000 as Prospector of the year in Peru, conferred by the Honorary Mining Merit Committee, composed of 15 members representing seven professional mining related organizations, including the National Society of Mining, Petroleum and Energy, the Geological Society of Peru and the Ministry of Energy and Mines. He was then responsible for the discovery of the gold-silver Shahuindo Mine, advancing the project to one of several million ounces in gold resources. This success led to the merger between Sulliden and Rio Alto, transforming Rio Alto into a mid-tier producer, which later merged with Tahoe Resources.  The world-class open-pit Shahuindo Gold Mine is now owned and operated by Pan American Silver Corp. at a rate of approximately 135,000 ounces of gold per year, following its takeover of Tahoe Resources.