Primary Job Title Advisory Board Primary Organization 
Eastmain Resources
Location Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Gender Male
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Dr. Hillhouse was appointed to Eastmain’s Special Advisory Board to provide strategic and technical advice to the Corporation. Dr Hillhouse has over 50 years of Canadian and International experience in the mining industry. He is the former Vice President of Exploration of Placer Development (now Placer Dome) and former President, Chairman and CEO
of Orvana Minerals Corp. Dr. Hillhouse has been directly involved in a number of gold deposit discoveries and acquisitions worldwide and was awarded “Prospector of the Year” by the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada in 1993.
While working for Placer Development, Dr. Hillhouse was involved in the discovery of the Eastmain Gold deposit in Québec and the acquisition, exploration and evaluation of the multi-million ounce Porgera and Misima gold mines in Papua, New Guinea as well as the Kidston and Big Bell gold mines in Australia. While with Orvana, Neil led the acquisition, exploration and evaluation of the currently producing Don Mario gold mine in Bolivia. Since the year 2000 he has managed the Ruby Hill Syndicate.
