Dr. Martin Oczlon , Ph.D. Geo - Exploration Manager

Dr. Martin Oczlon was born 1963, is German and has over 15 years experience as a professional in minerals exploration. From 1992 to 1999, he worked with BHP (now BHPBilliton) as a project geologist in Eastern Europe and Southwest Asia. On the Reko Diq porphyry copper project in Pakistan, he planned and drilled the discovery hole in the H4 Complex, which is now developed to become a large copper mine.  Following BHP’s corporate restructuring in 1999, Martin acquired from BHP a very large copper-gold exploration license perimeter in Romania (> 2500 km2) for a private company. This project was successfully operated and sold in early 2002, during the industry market-depression period, with a net 200 % profit on the investment. Martin then focused his interests on Turkey, where he acquired high-potential, precious and base metal exploration projects for Aldridge Minerals Inc.  He became a director of Aldridge in January, 2003. Throughout his tenure as a professional, his incorporation of pro-active, safety management has given him a 100 % accident-free safety track record. Beyond his activities in the industry, Martin compiled the “Terrane Map of Europe”, which has been published in October 2006. In addition to Martin’s native German, he has fluent to colloquial language levels in English, French, Spanish, Romanian, Russian, and Bulgarian.