Principal Hydrogeologist
Principal Environmental Geologist
Principal Mining Consultant

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M. D. Campbell and Associates
Principal-in-Charge
Houston, Texas
Telephone: (713) 807-0021
CellPhone: (832) 922-0227
Fax: (713) 807-0985
E-mail: mdc@ela-iet.com
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Education

1976, M.A., in Geology, Rice University under Mills Bennet Fellowship in Hydrology for Research and Seminars in Hydrogeology and Associated Disciplines. 31 Graduate Hours Toward Ph.D., Houston, TX, Thesis: Paleoenvironmental and Diagenetic Implications of Selected Siderite Zones and Associated Sediments in the Upper Atoka Formation, Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma-Arkansas, 124 p. (Continuing Research)

1966, B.A., in Geology, The Ohio State University w/ Courses and Research in Hydrology, Hydrogeology and Associated Environmental Programs. German Secondary Field of Specialty, Columbus, OH.

Professional Memberships / Affiliations
Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers
Society of Economic Geologists
Society of Mining Engineers (AIME)
Geological Society of America
Canadian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy
Association of Geoscientists for International Development
Houston Geological Society
Houston Engineering and Scientific Society
Association of Engineering Geologists (AEG)
International Association Hydrogeologists
Society of Texas Environmental Professionals
American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG)
American Institute of Hydrology (AIH)
International Society of Environmental Forensics (ISEF)

Professional Registrations & Licenses
Professional Geologist (AIPG-#3330)
Professional Hydrogeologist (AIH-#480)
Professional Geologist (Wyoming-#546)
Professional Geologist (Mississippi-#374)
Professional Geologist & Hydrogeologist (Washington-#866)
Professional Geoscientist (Texas-#53)

Professional Honors and Awards
Ohioana Award (Book in Science - 1975)
Who's Who in the Southwest (Biography)
Who's Who in Technology (Biography)
American Men & Women of Science (Biography)
American Institute of Professional Geologists (Certification)
American Institute of Professional Geologists- Texas Section (Citation for Oustanding Contributions)
American Institute of Hydrology (Certification)

Law Engineering (Citation for Outstanding Technical Expertise,Direction, and Leadership - 1990)
Institute of Environmental Technology, (Citation from the Students of the Class of 1994, Spring Semester).

Career Summary
Mr. Campbell is well-known nationally and internationally for his work as a technical leader, program manager, consultant and lecturer in hydrogeology, mining and associated environmental and geotechnical fields. He has gained a wide range of interdisciplinary experience in business and technical management in the environmental (regulatory, geological and hydrogeological), mining and financial fields spanning almost 30 years. Mr. Campbell has published widely, most notably: Water Well Technology (McGraw-Hill). In the mid to late 1970's, he served on the Editorial Board of the journal, Ground Water, for eight years and served as cofounder and first Director of Research of the NWWA Research Facility at Rice University. He also produced Geology [and Environmental Impact] of Alternate Energy Resources (Houston Geological Society) and many other publications and consulting reports over the years on a variety of applied hydrogeologic, geologic and injection well and hazardous waste subjects. He maintains an extensive library of more than 300,000 citations on environmental and mining topics covering the U.S. and overseas.

Mr. Campbell interrupted his graduate studies after the master's degree (Ph.D. work at Rice University in 1976) to join a major engineering and environmental consulting company as Director, Alternate Energy, Mining and Environmental Programs. During the period, he also served as an invited technical expert and lecturer for UNESCO-sponsored projects conducted in many parts of the world. Mr. Campbell managed a mining project as operating financial officer (handling revenues/expenses of more than $8 million/year) and as technical officer for exploration, mining, processing/refining and environmental activities. Over the past 15 years, Mr. Campbell has provided senior technical guidance, review, training, litigation support and consultation on numerous hydrogeological and hazardous waste projects involved in both RCRA and CERCLA programs for major law firms and consulting engineering and environmental companies as well as industry.

Professional Experience
1993-PRESENT
M. D. Campbell and Associates, Houston, TX, Senior Consulting Hydrogeologist and Principal-in-Charge
Mr. Campbell and a small support staff serve industry by providing technical consulting on RCRA, CERCLA and related waste management, risk assessment projects and water-supply projects in Texas, the U.S. and overseas. Mr. Campbell provides project/document review and technical and QA/QC training for industry, consulting companies and law firms for RCRA, Superfund and mining-related projects.

He designs, lectures, and produces formal technical short courses and semester-long courses on environmental science, engineering and technology, served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied Ground-Water Protection sponsored by the Ground-Water Protection Council and continues to serve as Special Editor for the journal, Ground Water.

During the summer of 1992, Mr. Campbell developed, managed and served as Principal Instructor for a 220-Hr Evening Semester Course: Introduction to Environmental Technology held on the campus of North Harris Community College for the purpose of cross-training petroleum geologists, engineers, chemists and others as a prelude to entering or advancing in the environmental field. Mr. Campbell lectured on RCRA and CERCLA and on hydrogeology and project management and selected and managed all guest lecturers from industry, government and local universities. The course was later hosted by the Houston Engineering and Scientific Society (HESS) and recently by The Institute of Environmental Technology. Almost 400 men and women have been graduated from the program to date.

He presently serves as: Principal of M. D. Campbell & Associates, Principal Hydrogeologist of Environmental Litigation Associates and Principal Instructor and Managing Director for the Institute of Environmental Technology, all located in Houston, Texas.

1991-1993
Du Pont Environmental Remediation Services
, Houston, TX, Regional Technical Manager and Chief Hydrogeologist

The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of E.I. Du Pont de Nemours. Mr. Campbell managed the activities of the Technical Group covering Du Pont plants and other plants over a seven-state area. He managed five operating departments: Geology, Environmental Specialties, Deepwell, Conceptual Engineering and Engineering /Construction involving approximately 60 technical personnel. He provided technical and administrative leadership, staff recruitment, training, quality control/assurance and risk assessment on various Du Pont projects and represented Du Pont on technical committees in Superfund projects in the U.S.

1991
ENSR Consulting and Engineering
, Houston, TX, Regional Director of Geosciences and Chief Hydrogeologist

The firm is a leading environmental services firm specializing in RCRA and CERCLA projects for industry. Mr. Campbell provided senior technical review, managerial direction, guidance and leadership to the hydrogeologic and geologic staff throughout the company's 22 offices in the U.S. He also provided and managed regular technical training sessions and performed quality control, assurance functions and litigation support for hydrogeologic projects (i.e., RCRA, CERCLA: Superfund and UST and landfill investigations). He also initiated, guided and supported marketing efforts in environmental projects.

1988-1990
Law Engineering
, Inc., Houston, TX, Senior Hydrogeologist and Corporate Hydrogeological Consultant
The firm is a large employee-owned geotechnical and environmental engineering company founded in the early 1940's. Mr. Campbell provided senior technical direction, guidance, leadership and motivation to the hydrogeologic staff for the company's 52 offices in the U.S. and overseas on hazardous waste projects including UST, landfill, water supply, dewatering and RCRA (Part B Permits) and CERCLA (Property Environmental Assessments: Stage I and II projects and Superfund investigations and representations) including litigation support and expert witness testimony. He was responsible for initiating, guiding and supporting marketing efforts in environmental and relevant geotechnical projects. Mr. Campbell also provided training sessions and managed technology development programs via in-house research groups throughout the company. He served on Senior Review Boards and performed annual quality control audits for the company.

1983-1988
Campbell, Foss & Buchanan, Inc., Houston, TX, President and Senior Partner
The firm
engaged in domestic and international environmental and natural resource consulting projects involving geological, hydrogeological and engineering programs: environmental investigations and characterizations (Part B Permitting and Property Transfer Assessments), mine dewatering, project management (RCRA Investigations), natural resource assessment, reserve analysis and acquisitions for industry, mining, financial and banking communities. Precious metal discovery credited. Provided consulting services on a $8-million/year precious metal mining and cyanide heap-leaching project from discovery through development operations and environmental liaison with state and federal regulatory agencies. Mr. Campbell was responsible for the daily review and monitoring of financial and operational activities of the 50-person mining company to 1988. In addition, he also served numerous other companies and consulting groups in senior review functions on hazardous waste and RCRA refinery and plant investigations.

1976-1983
Keplinger and Associates, Inc., Houston, TX, Director of Alternate Energy, Minerals and Environmental Division

Formed group and defined marketing objectives in 1976. Responsible for and managed all non-oil & gas projects: alternate energy (coal/lignite, geothermal energy, uranium), minerals (precious and base metals and industrial commodities-phosphate, potash, sand & gravel, and related environmental projects involving property transfer assessments (Pre-CERCLA activities) for joint-venture negotiations, corporate mergers and buyouts, financial and litigation preparations, hazardous waste investigations (RCRA Part A and Part B Permitting), geotechnical projects (dewatering) and water resource investigations. United Nations' ground water exploration and development programs. Mr. Campbell managed a staff of seven geologists, engineers and specialty consultants. He also presented seminars on a range of subjects involving environmental and hydrogeological issues.

1971-1976
NWWA Research Facility
, Columbus, OH and Houston, TX, Director of Research

Co-founded in 1971 and served as first Director of Research. Mr. Campbell conceived, formulated, supervised and conducted investigations on: water well technology, ground-water contamination and investigation practices and procedures, well construction standards, injection well systems' operation & maintenance, rural water systems' planning and engineering. Mr. Campbell was deeply involved in the development of EPA's early protocol development and characterization of ground-water contamination and remediation practices (Early RCRA and CERCLA). The NWWA Research Facility and the staff of six were moved to Rice University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, in 1973 and continued through 1976. He also was an invited lecturer for graduate-level seminar courses on hydrogeology and economic geology for two years. Conducted graduate research on paleoenvironmental and diagenetic processes under fluvial-deltaic conditions.

1969-1971
United Nuclear Corporation, Casper, WY, District Geologist / Hydrogeologist serving the Eastern U.S. and Canada

Mr. Campbell was responsible for mineral prospect generation (with emphasis on uranium and other strata-bound mineralization) and for field reconnaissance, mapping, sampling, drilling site operations, land acquisition and project budgeting and execution. He was also responsible for supporting the Morton Ranch uranium mining operations and mine dewatering and water supply development. He developed ground-water geochemistry as an aid to frontier uranium exploration and for developing models of mineralization in frontier exploration areas.

1966-1969
Continental Oil Company (of Australia), Sydney, Australia, Staff Geologist / Hydrogeologist, Minerals and Mining Division

Mr. Campbell was responsible for conducting, coordinating and implementing prospect evaluations, mapping and sampling programs, well-site operations and ground-water supply programs in various parts of Australia, Papua-New Guinea and the South Pacific for: phosphate, potash, sulfur, coal, base metals, and uranium. Phosphate discovery credited. Joint-venture programs with Japanese and Korean companies required extensive travel between Australia and Japan and Southeast Asia.

Hydrogeological / Environmental Investigations

In the early 1960's, Mr. Campbell was selected as Undergraduate Research Assistant in the Department of Geology, The Ohio State University and subsequently worked on one of the first long-term, systematic ground-water contamination investigations involving oil-field pollution by open brine disposal pits in Ohio and on early modeling of the associated ground-water flow behavior under Dr. Wayne A. Pettyjohn and others.

In 1966, Mr. Campbell joined Continental Oil Company (CONOCO), Minerals & Mining Group in Sydney, Australia, and worked on mineral exploration, mining and associated ground water supply projects. He was a Visiting Lecturer, University of Queensland, lecturing on the principles of hydrogeology.

After returning to the U.S. in the early 1970's, Mr. Campbell organized the National Water Well Association's Research Facility, becoming its first Director of Research in Ohio and then at Rice University, Houston. Over the period of 1971 to 1976, Mr. Campbell provided technical seminars on hydrogeology for numerous universities and for the U.S. E.P.A. He also served as Technical Consultant to the Water Well Journal and as Abstract Editor for the journal, Ground Water. During the period, Mr. Campbell managed numerous Association and EPA projects and programs dealing with hydrogeology and shallow drilling, shallow well design, construction, operation and maintenance, injection well, technical education and industrial contamination assessment, providing the early guidance to EPA personnel on ground-water sampling, monitoring well construction protocols and hazardous-waste spill response strategy for subsequent RCRA and CERCLA activities.

In 1975, he received The Ohioana Book Award in Science for the text: Water Well Technology (McGraw-Hill). Mr. Campbell was appointed as United Nations Technical Expert to review overseas ground-water programs for the period: 1976 to 1981. While at Rice University, he also conducted graduate fellowship research on a variety of subjects and taught courses in hydrogeology and economic geology, Mr. Campbell provided substantial input for the EPA-sponsored National Ground Water Information Center Data Base presently operated by the NWWA. He served on the Editorial Board of the journal, Ground Water from 1966 to 1981. During the period, he conducted numerous consulting geotechnical investigations and served as an invited technical expert and lecturer for the United Nations and UNESCO-sponsored projects on world-wide ground-water exploration and development in igneous and metamorphic rocks in: Sweden, Italy (Sardinia), India, and Tanzania.

Among the hydrogeological consulting projects conducted during the early 1980's, Mr. Campbell completed a series of investigations for a major geotechnical consulting firm on gasoline leaks in and around service stations in Texas. With Campbell, Foss and Associates, Inc., he initiated an evaluation of vadose flow of cyanide solutions of a heap-leach precious metals mining project. A long-term monitoring program was established for evaluating flow and hydrochemical behavior and for providing data for optimizing process control and for regulatory monitoring purposes. CF&B conducted numerous projects in the U.S. and overseas. During the period, Mr. Campbell also provided senior technical review and consultation for hydrogeological and hazardous waste projects associated with lignite mining (mine dewatering) and chemical plants performed by other geotechnical consulting groups in the south-central and northern United States.

While with Law Engineering, Inc., he was promoted to the company's highest technical position in the discipline as Corporate Hydrogeological Consultant, the first such designation in the company's 42 year history. He provided direction and technical support to Law Engineering's 52 offices through the U.S. and overseas. Mr. Campbell served in a similar capacity with ENSR Consulting and Engineering and in industry with Du Pont Environmental.

Presently, Mr. Campbell provides consultation on waste management, characterization, remediation, water supply projects, technical training, litigation support and expert witness testimony on hydrogeology, the National Contingency Plan and related subjects (see Mr. Campbell's Litigation Summary).

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Selected Projects

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Superfund Representation and Technical Support - Numerous Clients throughout U.S.- Served on Technical Committees for various Superfund projects representing DuPont and as senior technical support for a number of environmental consulting companies. Litigation support.

RCRA Technical Support - Numerous Clients throughout U.S. Provides senior technical support on hydrogeologic and contaminant transport investigations for site characterization and remedial design and operation and maintenance relating to effectiveness. Litigation support.

Leaking Underground Storage Tank Investigations - Numerous Clients throughout U.S. Provides senior review and consultation for technical staff on more than 200 investigations ranging from site characterization through remedial design to construction, operation and maintenance of remediation systems. Type of remediation approach varied from pump-and-treat to vapor extraction to in situ bioremediation systems, depending upon subsurface conditions. Litigation support.

Environmental Assessments - Numerous Clients throughout U.S. Provided technical direction and consultation on more than 300 environmental assessments for real estate transactions, corporate mergers or buyouts and bank foreclosures, many of which involved evaluations of potential brine contamination of oil and gas production facilities and properties. Approximately 20% of the properties investigated required follow-up investigations involving drilling. Of those, approximately 5% required some type of remedial activities which ultimately led to the design, construction operation and maintenance of remediation systems. Litigation support.

Alcoa Aluminum, Inc. - RCRA Part B Permit Application. Provided senior review and analysis of ground-water investigations of subsurface conditions around plant site. Hydrogeologic evaluations involving contaminant transport modeling and long-term monitoring.

Merchants Trucking, Inc. - Cavalcade Superfund Site Investigations. Provided analysis of remediation project proposed by PRP on contamination by BTEX and Coal Tar substances. Investigation involved evaluation of selected technology and estimated capital and O&M costs. State of Georgia - Landfill Lawsuit. Provided expert witness testimony on litigation involving landfill location in central Georgia with emphasis on present hydrogeologic conditions.

Compaq Computer, Inc. - Geotechnical & Dewatering Investigations. Provided senior review and consultation on ground-water investigations at new plant site in Houston.

Norse Windfall Mines, Inc. - Management and Environmental Investigations. Provided senior review and consultation over a three-year period on water supply development and environmental monitoring of ground-water conditions in area of mill and precious metal processing plant for a mine in central Nevada. Managed start-up operations and cash flow, and instituted daily monitoring program of data collection and analysis of heap leach (pregnant liquor) process hydrochemical data. Conducted analyses of flow behavior in heap-leach operations. Represented company and negotiated with state and federal regulatory agencies. Generated company's personnel and corporate policy manual, including health and safety provisions.

Municipal Landfill Investigations - Provided senior review and consultation on proposed landfill construction projects involving sitting investigations and hydrogeologic characterizations.

Dolet Hills Mining Co., Mansfield, LA - Dewatering/Depressurizing Project. Provided senior consultation and direction on mine dewatering/Depressurizing program, involving aquifer testing and analysis, dewatering well system design and construction, flow-net construction and updating as overburden was removed and mining advanced. Installed dewatering/Depressurizing well system and monitored and adjusted system operations.

General Electric - Ground-Water Assessment. Provided senior hydrogeological direction and support for PCE and BETX leaks in plants located in North and South Carolina. Designed assessment plans and designed and implemented remediation systems consisting of pump-and-treat, stripping tower, carbon canisters and recirculation circuit.

Confidential Insurance Company - Ground-Water Assessments of Contaminants Resulting from Manufactured Gas Facilities. Provided direction and consultation to nationwide investigations on reliability and appropriateness of proposed/operating remediation systems and associated site characterizations of LNAPL and DNAPL contaminant plumes and product (and dissolved plume) migration in the subsurface.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) -Ground-Water Characterization, Exploration and Development in Igneous and Metamorphic Terrain's of the World, Special Project 33. Selected as member of a seven-member international team of specialists on ground-water exploration and development throughout the sphere of influence of UNESCO projects. Conducted extended lectures/seminars and investigations on ground-water development and ground water technology in Sweden, Italy, India, and Tanzania.

United Nations Development Program (UNDP) - Senior Review and Analysis of U.N. Ground-Water Exploration and Development Program in Developing Countries, 1962 through 1977. Conducted multi-year evaluation of UN-sponsored ground-water programs throughout the world via project report analyses and U.N. personnel interviews.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) - Nation-wide Investigations on Rapid Response to Protect Ground-Water Resources From the Effects of Accidental Spills of Hydrocarbons and Other Hazardous Substances. Selected as member of 10-member team of specialists to evaluate and recommend activities to minimize ground-water contamination resulting from accidental spills of contaminants.

U.S. Commission on Rural Water (USCRW) - Investigations on Engineering and Economics of Rural Water Systems. Served as Research Director to evaluate and recommend rural water well system design and associated O&M programs within context of low-income environment of the rural communities.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) - Nationwide Investigations on Water Well Construction Standards. Served as Principal Investigator of 15-member team of specialists on water well design and construction. Produced manual published by EPA on the subject.

R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, North Carolina - Geophysical and Geological Exploration for Development of High Capacity Ground-Water Supply. Conducted and supervised geophysical and geological investigations in igneous and metamorphic rocks of North Carolina for the purpose of providing a ground-water supply in excess of 500 gpm for industrial use.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) - Investigation on the Mobility of Well-Drilling Additives in the Ground-Water System. Conducted investigations of commercially-available drilling fluids and assessed flow behavior in the ground-water reservoir and potential environmental impact on the hydrochemistry of aquifer systems.

U.S. Office of Water Resources Research (USOWRR) - Investigations on State-of-the-Science and Art of Water Well Technology. Conducted multi-year investigations of all aspects of shallow well technology, related environmental impact, and identified future research needs for EPA-sponsored investigations at the Kerr Ground-Water Research Center, Ada, Oklahoma and EPA Laboratory in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Ohio State University, Water Resources Division - Investigations on Ground-Water Contamination and Plume Development by Open Brine Disposal Pits, Morrow County, Ohio. Served as undergraduate research assistant to Dr. Jay H. Lehr and Dr. Wayne A. Pettyjohn on investigations including ground-water sampling, data analysis, and laboratory model construction and simulation of field conditions. Conducted contaminant transport and hydrochemical analysis of brine contaminant plume and associated modeling.

Various Clients - Geothermal Energy Investigations - Conducted numerous investigations on the hydrogeologic, structural and geophysical conditions of a number of liquid-dominated and vapor-dominated geothermal reservoirs in Nevada, California, and Texas to determine potential economic value of selected properties. Recommended further exploration and development in Dixie Valley. A significant geothermal reservoir was subsequently discovered and proved to be suitable for commercial development. Power plant became operational in 1987 and is producing electricity for the Nevada-California power grid.

International Paper - Lignite Exploration and Development Program, South Central U.S. Conducted /supervised shallow drilling, geophysical, and geologic logging, reserve calculations and quality assessments of IP properties throughout south-central U.S.

Various Clients - Coal and Lignite Development Feasibility Investigations - Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Washington, Pennsylvania, Australia, and Columbia. Conducted exploration programs for numerous clients to evaluate and estimate reserve base available, preliminary mining feasibility and property value.

Continental Oil Company (CONOCO) - Mining Development Projects in Australia and Southeast Asia. Conducted and managed field exploration programs, geologic mapping, drilling operations, and water-supply investigations (well drilling, aquifer testing, and pipeline transport engineering) for projects involving industrial energy, precious minerals and base metals (discovery credited) and associated mining projects.

United Nuclear Corporation (UNC) - Geologic and Hydrogeologic Investigations, Western U.S. Conducted investigations in numerous states to screen geologic environments for favorable conditions for the occurrence of uranium and other strata-bound minerals. As a principal part of such investigations, numerous hydrochemical facies of favorable geologic intervals were evaluated to further screen prospective environments. Also, conducted water supply investigations (drilling, sampling, and aquifer testing) at UNC's northwest New Mexico and central Wyoming mining operations.

Geologic and Hydrogeologic Investigations - Numerous Clients. Conducted and supervised preliminary mining feasibility studies, mineral property evaluations and environmental assessments for numerous clients in the U.S., including Alaska, and South America, Central America, Africa, India, and other countries.

City of Houston - Well Field Investigations. Provided analysis of probable causes for unanticipated well/pump failures in city's system. Conducted metallurgical and hydrochemical analyses of failed pump components and well conditions prior to pump failures. Recommended improving operation and maintenance procedures and establishing new ground-water sampling and well performance protocol.

Management of Geothermal Exploration & Development Projects
In 1976, Mr. Campbell conducted extensive investigations on the potential geothermal value of selected properties in Dixie Valley, Nevada for a series of clients. Based on the available geological, geophysical, and hydrogeological data, Mr. Campbell recommended further investigations and a preliminary drilling and hot-spring sampling program. Results indicated favorable conditions existed in the subsurface complex of Basin-and-Range geologic structures. Additional federal lands were acquired by the client in Dixie Valley and other geothermal companies became interested in the area. Deep exploratory drilling began and significant discoveries of high temperature, liquid-dominated geothermal energy reservoirs were identified. Economic analyses were conducted on behalf of the client to establish land values for possible buyout or merger with other geothermal companies. The client subsequently sold its interests. Dixie Valley geothermally- generated power plants went on-stream in 1987 and is producing electricity for the Nevada-California power grid on a regular basis.

Mr. Campbell conducted a series of additional geologic, hydrogeologic and economic investigations for a number of geothermal companies in the western U.S. He continues to monitor industry activities.

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Management of Coal-Lignite Exploration & Development Projects
In the mid-1970's, Mr. Campbell initiated and managed the lignite exploration activities for General Crude Oil Company (Div. International Paper, Inc.) in Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama. Subsequent consulting assignments on coal and lignite in the 1970's and 1980's involved: exploration programs, preliminary mining feasibility studies, detailed reserve analyses, property evaluations, and mining operations assessment and evaluation.

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Management of Mineral Exploration Programs
During the mid to late 1960's, Mr. Campbell worked for a major American oil and minerals company (Conoco) in Australia and Southeast Asia successfully conducting/managing field exploration programs, drilling operations, and water-supply investigations for development projects involving industrial and energy minerals, and precious and base metals (discovery credited). In the early 1970's, after returning to the U.S., he served three years as Regional Geologist with a major uranium exploration and mining company in Wyoming (United Nuclear). While there, he conducted research on hydrochemistry associated with roll-front uranium occurrences and successfully applied the results to the company's field program nationwide.

Mr. Campbell subsequently conducted various exploration programs as a consultant in the U.S. for companies such as Texas Eastern Nuclear, General Crude Oil Company and others during the mid-1970's on targets ranging from uranium, rare earth minerals, sulfur, industrial minerals to base metals and precious metals.

In 1983, Mr. Campbell and two associates formed a consulting firm and conducted many domestic and international geologic, mining, economic, and hydrogeologic investigations including mineral property valuations and exploration programs (discovery credited), mine operational and financial management projects, mineral reserve analyses, preliminary feasibility studies, environmental investigations of various types, and other geotechnical investigations.

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Mine Management
During the mid-1980's, Mr. Campbell provided technical, operational, financial and environmental management for a heap-leach precious metal mine in Nevada. He served as part of three-man, matrix management team that was responsible for operations and management of a multiple mine-central mill project with 35 employees and for the prime mining, crushing, hauling and agglomerating contractor with more than 30 employees. Mr. Campbell's activities included:

1) management of start-up mine operations,

2) operating financial and accounting officer ($8 million cash flow/year),

3) company operating and hazardous material safety and bullion security policy development via personnel manual,

4) joint-venture representation with major mining companies,

5) development of economic modeling programs for detailed financial analyses of month-to- month economic conditions,

6) day-to-day monitoring of operational process hydrochemical data,

7) supervision of exploration programs and of land acquisition projects,

8) conducted analyses of unsaturated flow in the heap-leach operations, monitored solution chemistry, and

9) initiated ground-water monitoring programs and provided guidance in negotiations with BLM and EPA.

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International Projects
Mr. Campbell spent his early professional years on projects in Australia, Southeast Asia and Micronesia, making trips to Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore as joint-venture project negotiation needs required. He has returned on occasions to present invited hydrogeological papers. Mr. Campbell has initiated or been associated with projects on mineral exploration, mining, and hydrogeological topics in the following countries: Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Honduras, Jordan, Italy (Sardinia), Liberia, Mexico, Niger, Sri Lanka, Sweden, South Africa, Sudan, and Tanzania.

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Other Subsurface Investigations
Mr. Campbell also has conducted a number of other scientific, geologic, hydrogeologic and geotechnical investigations involving: remote subsurface data acquisition technology development, technology transfer, human toxicology, moon-earth-meteorite potassium-uranium systematics, paleoenvironmental and diagenetic processes in the subsurface, injection well design and operation, oil shale, sand and gravel reserve assessment and preliminary development feasibility, geologic assessment of cavern integrity and injection operations at Strategic Petroleum Reserve Sites in Texas, and subsurface structural traps for oil and gas. Mr. Campbell has a strong interest in the industrialization of space.

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