Stephen Balch
Special Advisor
Effective, April 21, 2021, Stephen Balch stepped down from Noble’s Board of Directors. Effective April 20, 2021, the Board of Directors appointed Mr. Balch as a Special Advisor to the Company (serving as a non-executive consultant).
Mr.Balch has over 30 years of experience in mineral exploration as an exploration geophysicist. He is one of Canada's leading experts on geophysical techniques used to identify nickel-copper sulphide and platinum-group-metal targets. Since 2010, he has also served as President and a director of Triumph Instruments, a company that conducts airborne time domain electromagnetic surveys in North America, China and Mexico. Since 2001, he has been President of Balch Exploration Consulting Inc., a company that provides consulting services to major mining and junior exploration companies. He previously served as the President and a director of Canadian Mining Geophysics Ltd., a geophysical data recording company, from 2007 to 2015. He was President, CEO and a director of Chevrier Metals Corp. (formerly Tawsho Mining Inc.), previously a TSX-V listed mining exploration company, from 2013 to 2016, as well as a director of RHC Capital Corporation (formerly Rockefeller Hughes Corporation), a TSXV listed exploration company developing oil and gas resources in Texas, from 2013 to 2016."