Aston Bay (TSX.V: BAY, OTCQB: ATBHF) is a publicly traded mineral exploration company exploring for gold and base metal deposits in Virginia, USA, and Nunavut, Canada. The Company is led by CEO Thomas Ullrich with exploration in Virginia directed by the Company’s advisor, Don Taylor, the 2018 Thayer Lindsley Award winner for his discovery of the Taylor Pb-Zn-Ag Deposit in ArizonaThe Company has also acquired the exclusive rights to an integrated dataset over certain prospective private lands at the Blue Ridge Project and has signed agreements with timber and land companies which grants the company the option to lease the mineral rights to 11,065 acres of land located in central Virginia. These lands are located within a gold-copper-lead-zinc mineralized belt prospective for Carolina slate belt gold deposits, as well as sedimentary VMS, exhalative (SEDEX) and Broken Hill (BHT) type base metal deposits. Don Taylor, who led the predecessor company to Blue Ridge and assembled the dataset, has joined the Company’s Advisory Board and will be directing the Company’s exploration activities for the Blue Ridge Project. The Company is actively exploring the Buckingham Gold Project in Virginia and is in advanced stages of negotiation on other lands in the area.The Company is also 100% owner of the Aston Bay Property located on western Somerset Island, Nunavut, which neighbours Teck’s profitable, past-producing Polaris (Pb-Zn) Mine just 200km to the north. The Aston Bay Property hosts the Storm Copper Project and the Seal Zinc Deposit with drill-confirmed presence of sediment-hosted copper and zinc mineralization.www.astonbayholdings.com

Young Mining Professionals (YMP) is a growing association of mining professionals based in the Vancouver and Toronto areas that share the goal of advancing the global profile and leadership of the Vancouver and Toronto-based mining and exploration industry. YMP was established to assist participants in obtaining the skills, support and knowledge to successfully advance their careers, develop a network of contacts within the industry, and identify career and mining-related investment opportunities.

- Capital markets and investor relations support for junior mining companies.- Facilitating client access to capital markets including buy and sell side analysts, investors and analysts. - Managing the build-up and launch of the crowdfunding platform, Klondike Strike.- Working with investors, mining executives and management teams in preparation for Klondike Strike.- Developing consistent branding and marketing strategy across corporate social media platforms.

- Contributing to the development and implementation of a government relations outreach strategy, federal and provincially.- Brought together 50+ Members of Parliament, including the Prime Minister of Canada to PDAC annual convention.

- Researched and recommended new capital raising policies for the junior resource sector based on an international comparison of exploration incentives to raise capital for junior exploration and mining companies. - Outreach to capital market executives for the PDAC Annual Convention.- Updating website and contributing to external communication.

- Overseeing the efficient and effective operations of the Minister’s Hill office.- Managing Minister Raitt’s schedule relating to MP Duties and ensuring administrative support is available.- Providing administrative and strategic services to the Executive Assistant and the Minister, such as researching, synthesizing, and contacting high-level contacts.- The first point of contact for all correspondence who communicate with the Hill office.

- Conducting original research relating to Canada's Arctic.- Responsible for fact finding and gathering background information on varied topics.- Assisting in writing policy papers and research papers.- Helping in organizing conferences and monthly speakers series.

- Worked with state-of-the-art digitalization software (Java and Adobe FineReader Software) - Digitalizing the archives of UCDP.- Collecting data on armed conflicts for the global conflict database.

- Organized and prepared events and conferences for lawyers and clients. - Personally arranged events for lawyers and their clients.- Issued publications and newsletters to current and perspective clients.- Updated and organized the company wide contact and mailing list.

- Focused on geological surveys and mine development in the Canadian Arctic.- Prepared drill samples for geologists.- Coordinated and organized daily samples to the head office in Vancouver. - Visited drill sites and checked that the drill samples were following the projected alignments.