CFO insider buyCFO Derek Price insider buy of 50,000 shares yesterday
Insider name: Price, T. Derek
Insider's Relationship to Issuer: 5 - Senior Officer of Issuer
Security designation: Common Shares
377955 2004-12-20 2004-12-21 Direct Ownership :
10 - Acquisition or disposition in the public market +21,000 0.4900
377963 2004-12-21 2004-12-21 Direct Ownership :
10 - Acquisition or disposition in the public market +29,000 0.4900
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Derek Price (MBA, CA)
Position: Vice President, Finance, and Chief Financial Officer
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Derek served in similar capacities at Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. from 1996 until June, 2003. Previously, he spent four years as Vice-President Finance for Granges Inc. and prior to that, with Cominco Ltd for 10 years as Treasury Manager, Assistant Controller and as Vice-President Finance of subsidiary Western Canada Steel Limited. Mr. Price is a member of the Canadian and Australian Institutes of Chartered Accountants.