New president for Nevada Star

Patricia Jones

Petroleum News contributing writer

Gerry Carlson stepped down from the president’s position with junior-sized Nevada Star Resource Corp. earlier this fall, due to time constraints with other mining exploration and business ventures.

Robert Angrisano, a senior principal technologist with Microsoft Corp. and a major shareholder of Nevada Star, is currently serving as the company’s interim president, Carlson told Petroleum News in a telephone interview Dec. 16. Angrisano took on the executive responsibilities Nov. 1. Board chairman Monty Moore serves as interim chief executive officer of the company.

“I will keep Nevada Star strategically focused on the discovery and development of significant sources of metals in high demand, to maximize value for our shareholders,” Angrisano said in an Oct. 31 press release announcing the leadership changes.

The company said the board of directors will be looking for someone with a strong background in both mining and business to take over as president and CEO.

Carlson remains involved with Nevada Star as a shareholder and a board director.

“It really required a full-time president, and I was not able to commit enough time to the position,” he said.

Carlson, who continues to direct Vancouver, British Columbia-based Copper Ridge Exploration, is well known within the Alaska mining industry. He formerly headed LaTeko Resources, which at one time owned the Ryan Lode Mine on Ester Dome just west of Fairbanks, and had a share of the True North gold deposit northeast of Fairbanks.

Kinross Gold, which acquired most of LaTeko’s land assets in 1999, is currently producing gold from True North at its Fort Knox mill and conducted an extensive exploration program at Ryan Lode this summer.

Carlson’s Copper Ridge holds properties in the Yukon Territories and a grassroots exploration property in east central Alaska, near the Pogo gold deposit.