Neil Burns

Mr. Burns is currently Vice President, Corporate Development at Wheaton Precious Metals and has extensive international experience in exploration, mining and resource evaluation. He joined the Company in 2008 in the role of Director, Geology and was promoted to Vice President, Technical Services in 2012, responsible for the technical review of potential precious metals stream financing opportunities. Prior to Wheaton, he held numerous positions with mining and consulting firms including Corporate Resource Geologist and Project Geologist for Lundin Mining Corporation and Resource Consultant for Snowden Mining Industry Consultants. He holds a master’s degree in mineral exploration from Queen’s University and a Bachelor of Science degree from Dalhousie University and is a registered Professional Geologist with Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia.